The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America’s current largest genre festival runs from July 16 to August 2, in its 30th edition. With its large size, and ‘big tent’ scope of everything from everywhere as long it is never boring, the festival is often given the unofficial tagline we love to repeat, ‘Summer camp for genre nerds.’ The Fantasia audience is a very generous audience, with a seemingly unlimited capacity to embrace everything from quiet Japanese family dramas to head smashing action pictures, to cringe inducing body horror. The festival is a lighthouse to guide people back to watching movies in a public space with a large, often vocal, enthusiastic and emotive crowd. The cool embrace of the Hall and J.A. de Sève auditoriums…
