Fant-Asia 2000 North American Premieres

Fantasia 2000, the 5th annual International Festival of Fantasy, Action and Genre Cinema held it’s press conference today. As previously reported Fantasia will take place in Montreal, Canada, from the 13th to the 31st of July at Montreal’s Imperial Cinema. Fantasia will be showing films of all types from all over the world, including India, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Mexico, Spain and Italy. Japanese films include several live action films (including the prequel to the famous Ring series, Ring 0), 3 “monster movies” (Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey , Son of Godzilla and Mothra 3) as well as several short films. Of importance to anime fans are the four anime feature films that Fantasia will be showing this year: Blood: The Last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D: The Movie, Albator: Le Film (a French Captain Harlock compilation film) and A.L.I.C.E. (the full CG “anime” film). Fantasia 2000 will play host to the world premiere of Blood: The Last Vampire on Wednesday July 29th at 7pm at the Imperial. Blood is the latest release from Productions I.G. who also produced JIN-ROH (Which also premiered at Fantasia in 1999), Ghost in the Shell, Neon Genesis Evangelion and the Patlabor movies. Half of the dialogue of Blood is in English and subtitled in Japanese. (Like Gunhed if anyone remembers the live action 1-1 scale mech movie). The highly anticipated Vampire Hunter D feature film will also so having it’s international premiere at Fantasia on Friday July 14th.

Source: Anime News Network