Toronto After Dark Film Festival made its announcement this weekend after the closure of its 14th annual installment. Among the winning recipients from the 5000+ votes from attendees and fans are Lee Min-jae’s zombie comedy, The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale, in addition to Alex Chung’s tenaciously-produced independent action endeavor, Contracts, crowdfunded sci-fi oddysey, Blood Machines, and Fernando Alle’s Bucheon fave, Mutant Blast.
Check out the roster below and stay tuned for more updates!
THE MORTUARY COLLECTION, the creepy new horror anthology directed Ryan Spindell took Top Prize, the Audience Choice Award for BEST FEATURE FILM GOLD plus three other Specialty Awards including BEST HORROR FILM. BEST FEATURE FILM SILVER went to THE ODD FAMILY: ZOMBIE ON SALE, Lee Min-jae’s zombie comedy which also took home BEST ENSEMBLE CAST. Time travel comedy JAMES VS HIS FUTURE SELF, directed by Jeremy LaLonde took home BEST FEATURE FILM BRONZE as well as three additional awards including BEST SCI-FI FILM and BEST CANADIAN FILM.
Additional Major Winners in the Specialty Categories included Irish supernatural comedy EXTRA ORDINARY which won five awards including BEST SCREENPLAY, the dark crime thriller COME TO DADDY which won two awards including BEST DIRECTOR, and the space-set sci-fi movie BLOOD MACHINES which won a number of technical awards.
Read on for the complete list of all the winners from Toronto After Dark 2019, including the Short Film Award winners:
FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS
THE MORTUARY COLLECTION•BEST FEATURE FILM – AUDIENCE •CHOICE GOLD
•BEST HORROR FILM
•BEST EDITING
•FILM MOST WANT TO SEE A SEQUEL TOTHE ODD FAMILY: ZOMBIE ON SALE
•BEST FEATURE FILM – AUDIENCE CHOICE SILVER
•BEST ENSEMBLE CASTJAMES VS HIS FUTURE SELF
•BEST FEATURE FILM – AUDIENCE CHOICE BRONZE
•BEST SCI-FI FILM
•BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM
•BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Daniel Stern)EXTRA ORDINARY
•BEST SCREENPLAY
•BEST COMEDY
BEST FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (Maeve Higgins)
•BEST VILLAIN (Christian Winter played by Will Forte)
•MOST ORIGINAL FILMCOME TO DADDY
•BEST DIRECTOR (Ant Timpson)
•BEST MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (Elijah Wood)THE WRETCHED
•MOST SCARY FILM
•BEST MONSTER/CREATURE (The Wretch)CONTRACTS
•BEST ACTION FILM
•BEST FIGHT (Beach Fight)BLOOD MACHINES
•BEST CG EFFECTS
•BEST MUSIC
•BEST SOUND DESIGN
•BEST TITLE SEQUENCETHE FURIES
•BEST PRACTICAL EFFECTS
•BEST KILL (Face removal by Axe)PARADISE HILLS
•BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
MUTANT BLAST
•BEST FILM TO WATCH WITH A CROWD
SHORT FILM AWARD WINNERS
BEST CANADIAN SHORT FILM1. GOLD: ALASKA Directed by Chris Wilson, Brianna Templeton & Gwynne Phillips
2. SILVER: BARBARA-ANNE Directed by Kat Webber
3. BRONZE: MOMENT Directed by Geoffrey UlothBEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
1. GOLD: MAGGIE MAY (Australia) Directed by Mia’kate Russell
2. SILVER: THE HAUNTED SWORDSMAN (USA) Directed by Kevin McTurk
3. BRONZE: YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH (Spain) Directed by Marc Martinez Jordon