Programme highlights of Imagine Film Festival
The festival for fantastic film with
approx. 70 long and short films, Night of Terror, European Fantastic Shorts, Anime,
Masterclasses, panel debates and Q&A’s, special sidebar programmes and much more
Monday, April 8, until Wednesday, April 17 2013 in EYE, Amsterdam
www.imaginefilmfestival.nl
You can see the entire programme here:
http://issuu.com/antondamen/docs/imagine_magazine_2013
Imagine’s Career Achievement Award goes to Neil Jordan
Presentation on Monday night, April 8 (opening night)
Tuesday, April 9, Masterclass followed by his latest film Byzantium
(press screening, April 2, 10.30am, Rialto)
Imagine sidebar programme House of Psychotic Women
Includes The Tall Man, Excision, American Mary, Possession, The Mafu Cage.
Sunday, April 15, at noon:
Symposium about Female Neuroses in Horror and Exploitation Films, attended by, among others, Canadian Kier-La Janisse, writer of the book House of Psychotic Women
Imagine sidebar programme Bollywood and Beyond
Exploration of the Indian genre film in 2013, includes
Despite The Gods, Gangs of Wasseypu, Rowdy Rathore, and more.
Masterclass Belgian comic hero François Schuiten
Monday, April 15, 4.15pm
Followed by a screening of the film Mars et Avril, for which he created a retro-futuristic make-over of Montreal
The Night of Terror
Night of Saturday, April 13, on to Sunday, April 14
The annual horror party for the die-hards in Pathé Tuschinski, with the films
Stitches, The Last Exorcism: God Asks. The Devil Commands, the reboot of Evil Dead
and Sawney: Flesh of Man
Opening film Trance by Danny Boyle
Monday night, April 8 / In cinemas from June 13
(press screening, April 3, 10.30am, Warner Bros.)
Closing film The Grandmaster by Wong Kar Wai
Wednesday night, April 17 / In cinemas from May 9
(press screening, March 29, 10.30am, Rialto)
Outstanding Anime from the East
with films like Wolf Children by Mamoru Hosada and 009 Re: Cyborg by Kenji Kamiyama
Outstanding Martial Arts films
like Rurouni Kenshin by Keishi Ohtomo
Outstanding Horror Comedies
like Mega Spider by Mike Mendez and Mon Ami by Rob Grant
Artwork
Designed by Utrecht designer Nick Liefhebber
Chris Oosterom new artistic director Imagine
Chris Oosterom (49) worked as a programmer for festivals (Lowlands, Crossing Border) and cultural centres (Ekko, ‘t Paard).
He was also contributor and editor for film magazine Skriek. At the Filmmuseum he worked in programming and was responsible for distribution. For the last few years, Oosterom has operated from London, as co-owner of film and DVD-distributor Yume Pictures.
As artistic director of Imagine, he runs the festival together with business director Liselotte van der Burgt.
The Imagine Film Festival is a continuation of The Weekend of Terror (1984-1995) and the Festival van de Fantastische Film/Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (1996- 2007).
Ticket sales have begun via de website.
The complete programme can be found on www.imaginefilmfestival.nl
Additional information can be found on www.eyefilm.nl
