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| Location | Morzine-Avoriaz, Haute-Savoie, France |
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| Started | 1973 |
| Founded by | Gérard Brémond, Lionel Chouchan |
| Most recent | 1993 |
| Successor | Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival Avoriaz French Film Festival |
| Artistic director | Jean-Claude Romer[1] |
| Festival date | January |
| Language | International |
The Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival (French: Festival international du film fantastique d'Avoriaz) was a film festival held in the French resort of Avoriaz between 1973 and 1993.[2] It was the precursor to the current Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival.
Unlike many such events, the Avoriaz festival did not have grassroots origins. Organized as a vehicle for the eponymous skiing resort, it intended to promote the genre and its host town to a mainstream audience, with a level of glamour typically associated with more accepted film genres.
The New York Times called it "a great success, the high point of many junketing French journalists' winters"[3] and the Financial Times wrote that its two decades of existence had turned Avoriaz into "a momentary movie mecca".[4] In its time, the festival was hailed as the premier fantasy film event in the world,[5][6][7] although recent assessments have ranked Sitges, which outlasted it by a considerable margin, as the genre's foremost gathering.[8]
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- ^ Bourreau, Chantal (2007). Avoriaz : l'aventure fantastique. Savoie vivante. Montmélian: La Fontaine de Siloé. pp. 259–276. ISBN 9782842063894.
- ^ Rockwell, John (15 February 1994). "New French Film Festival Succeeds by Audacity". The New York Times. p. 13.
- ^ Heathcote, Edwin (30 November 2012). "On the slopes of utopia". financialtimes.com. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ Van Hise, James (August 1982). "The Road Warrior". Starlog Magazine. No. 61. New York: O'Quinn Studios. p. 29. ISSN 0191-4626.
[...] Avoriaz Film Festival, considered the world's most prestigious festival for fantasy films.
- ^ Jones, Alan (2005). The Rough Guide to Horror Movies. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1843535211.
- ^ Edwards, Matthew (2017). Twisted Visions: Interviews with Cult Horror Filmmakers. Jefferson: McFarland & Company. p. 97. ISBN 9781476663760.
- ^ Conran, Pierce (1 November 2016). "Korean Films Galore at 49th Sitges Fantastic Film Festival". koreanfilm.or.kr. Korean Film Council. Retrieved 10 January 2022.