TWO EVOKATIVE FILMS PREMIERES AT FANTASIA - DOWN TERRACE AND DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, North-America’s largest genre film festival, is an absolute must for Evokative Films. Attended since its first years by its founder, Stephanie Trepanier, who also collaborates to the festival since 2004, Fantasia is at the roots of the distribution company, the essence of it passion and inspiration. Evokative Films was founded so that the Fantasia audience could see the films they love, year-round.

We are thus extremely happy to benefit from the event to present two films to its public for the first time: DOWN TERRACE by Ben Wheatley will have its Canadian Premiere with the Director in town for the occasion; DELIVER US FROM EVIL will have its Quebec Premiere; and BLACK will be presented under the stars.

DOWN TERRACE
A life of crime is not an easy one. It’s even harder when your entire family are criminals living under one roof! Karl has just gotten out of jail and returns home to find a pregnant girlfriend and aching questions as to who might have snitched on him. His father, Bill, has also recently been released from the clink, and he shares his son’s obsession with finding an informer amongst their rogue’s gallery of law-smashing pals and hated family friends. Mum is no less on edge, with a hair-trigger temper and a penchant for paranoia that leaves no gravestone unturned. And now, company’s coming over. In this house, full of people who seem to suspect each other of just about everything, blood pressure continuously rises until blood itself begins to flow. And it’s not particularly thicker than water.

This new acquisition for Evokative (and first English film) will have its Canadian Premiere on July 10th at 7pm and July 12th at 5:30pm, both screenings hosted by Director Ben Wheatley, who was recently noticed for his direction of the BBC series THE WRONG DOOR. The film won the Next Wave Award at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, where it had its World Premiere, to then win the Best UK Feature Award at the Raindance Film Festival and the Raindance Award at the British Independent Film Awards. The film was programmed in many prestigious film festivals, such as Slamdance, Rotterdam, Glasgow, Seattle, LA Film Fest, Pifan and Melbourne. The film will be released at the end of the summer jointly with the American release by Magnolia Pictures.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Lars and Johannes are brothers with very little in common. Johannes is a high-powered lawyer with a beautiful wife and two children; Lars is a truck driver and a drunken brute who beats his girlfriend. Having returned to his hometown in the country, Johannes hopes for a less hectic, more genuine lifestyle. But trouble is underfoot when Lars runs over a woman with his truck. He sees only one way out: put the blame on Alain, a Bosnian refugee with impaired mental functions. But when Lars, the God-fearing husband of the victim, and his friends close in on the Bosnian, Johannes stands up for the man and shelters him. Undeterred, the violent, drunken horde makes their way to Johannes´ secluded house, where the family and Alain fear for their lives. When words no longer suffice to contain the madness, a siege begins, in which unchained anarchy dictates a scenario of terror…

This Danish social thriller by Ole Bornedal (NIGHTWATCH, THE SUBSTITUTE, JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY) will have its Quebec premiere on July 25th at 7pm and on July 28th at 7:35pm. It won the Best Film in the Noves Visions section of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, as well as a special award of the Jury at the Fantasporto International Film Festival, after having its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and being programmed in many film festival such as the Hamptons, Pusan, Tallin, Istanbul and right now at Philadelphia’s Danger After Dark.

FANTASIA UNDER THE STARS
From July 13th to the 24th, the Fantasia Under the Stars event will return to offer outdoors screenings at Peace Parc, located beside the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Evokative Films is proud to participate to this event once again by offering a free screening of one of last edition of Fantasia’s popular success, BLACK, on July 13th. The screening will begin at 9pm and will be preceded by live musical and visual performances by TAXI NOUVEAU & LIBERTY.

FANTASIA’S FILMS AT EVOKATIVE FILMS
Evokative’s programming is intrinsically linked to Fantasia’s. Last year, we presented BLACK by Pierre Laffargue (now on DVD), ROUGH CUT by Jang Hoon (DVD coming this fall), from whom the SECRET REUNION will be presented at the festival this year, and DAYTIME DRINKING by Noh Young-seok (now on DVD). The previous year had THE KILLER (LE TUEUR) by Cédric Anger, as well as ADRIFT IN TOKYO by Satoshi Miki. CRYING FIST and HAZARD are other titles released by Evokative which premiered at Fantasia in the past.

The Fantasia International Film Festival will take place from July 8th to the 28th. Its programming includes more than 120 feature films and 250 shorts. We are looking forward to attend this 3-weeks movie marathon every day, to see favourites from this year’s festival circuit again along with the always-enthusiastic Fantasia audience, and discover new cinematic gems and oddities!

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