Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter will receive the Fantasia Lifetime Achievement Award during the online edition of the festival. While predictably focusing on the new, the Fantasia Film Festival will also celebrate its 24th edition by acknowledging those who have paved the way, starting with a Lifetime Achievement Award for John Carpenter, who attended the event back in 1998. “He’s such a brilliant storyteller on every front and his works have inspired legions of filmmakers, cinematographers and composers. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that he is one of the most influential filmmakers of the last 45 years”, co-director and head programmer Mitch Davis tells Cineuropa. The late José Mojica Marins, a past recipient of the award, will be commemorated with showings of his three films, and a live talk with Dennison Ramalho, co-screenwriter of his 2008 horror Embodiment of Evil. “As the history and future of Brazil’s cinema.
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