Fantasia Announces Virtual 25th Edition & Brain Freeze World Premiere
Fantasia announces virtual 25th edition & Brain Freeze world premiere
Fans eager for the film fest season to continue can rejoice as Fantasia International Film Festival have announced their return for the 25th Edition of the event from August 5-25, which will continue the virtual format utilized last year as the pandemic continues to keep many areas in lockdown and using the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72.
As the summer approaches, the festival will be following advice from local health authorities, with the possibility of also adding a range of flagship physical events to the lineup. Last summer’s virtual edition was a large success for Fantasia, 85,000 spectators attending screenings and amassing a record amount of media coverage, with 475 accredited journalists from around the world covering Fantasia and its titles. The lineup showcased 104 features, a quarter of which were Wo
Le Monde in October 1972. His drawings were regularly published in the headlines since 1985.
From 1980 to 1986, he also worked for the magazine
Phosphore and since 1991 he has been publishing a weekly page in the magazine
L’Express. On the same year, he won the « Rare Document Award » at the
Angers Festival du Scoop for managing to append both signatures of Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres on the same drawing, a year before the Oslo Accords.
In 2006, Plantu and former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan (Nobel Peace Prize in 2001) organized a symposium in New York, in which Cartooning for Peace was formed. This network, with its association in Paris and foundation in Geneva, promotes freedom of expression for cartoonists around the world and counts already 147 members. Plantu has published more than 60 books of his press cartoon collection (Le Monde editions, Le Seuil).