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. 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" and the Financial Times wrote that its two decades of existence had turned Avoriaz into "a momentary movie mecca". In its time, the festival was hailed as the premier fantasy film event in the world, although recent assessments have ranked Sitges, which outlasted it by a considerable margin, as the genre's foremost gathering.
Il Festival internazionale del film fantastico di Avoriaz è stato un festival cinematografico dedicato al cinema fantastico che si è tenuto annualmente, nel mese di gennaio, dal 1973 al 1993, nella stazione sciistica francese di Avoriaz (nel comune di Morzine).
Le Festival international du film fantastique d’Avoriaz est un ancien festival consacré au cinéma fantastique créé en 1973. Le festival se tenait chaque année en janvier dans la station d’Avoriaz. Après sa dernière édition en 1993, il est remplacé par le festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer.
El Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico de Avoriaz (en francés, Festival International du Film Fantastique d'Avoriaz) fue una competencia cinematográfica que se desarrolló en el mes de enero, entre los años 1973 y 1993,[1] en la estación de esquí de Avoriaz, Alta Saboya (Francia).[2] Creado por Gérard Brémond y Lionel Chouchan tras su cancelación el festival prosiguió con cambios, desde 1994, renombrado como Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer (en inglés, Fantastic'Arts).[3]
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