Fantastic Fest 2012 AMD Next Wave Competition Line-up

For those of you that don’t know, Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the country, and they just released their line-up for this year’s Next Wave competition. This competition awards up-and-coming filmmakers with a cash prize, and the opportunity to expose their vision to many more people. Last year’s winner was the fantastic Bullhead, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.Below you’ll find a full list of this year’s nominees. Let us know if you’ve seen any of these films and would recommend them for winners at this year’s competition, and check back for more coverage of Fantastic Fest 2012 in the coming days and weeks.

COMBAT GIRLS (2011)

North American Premiere

Director – David Wnendt, 103min

The debut feature from director-writer David Wnendt is a bleak tale of two girls who, for very different reasons, get swept up in the resurgent Neo-Nazi movement in Germany.

 

CONSPIRACY, THE

World Premiere

Director – Christopher MacBride, 85min

Two young documentary filmmakers are drawn into a shadowy world of secret societies when the subject of their film simply disappears. Have his investigations led to his demise?

 

CRAVE (2012)

U.S. Premiere

Director – Charles de Lauzirika, 113min

CRAVE follows a mentally unstable crime scene photographer on his descent into violence and madness. CRAVE won the New Flesh Award for Best First Feature at the 2012 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival.

 

ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY (2012)

U.S. Premiere

Director – Eron Sheean, 101min

Plagued by the memory of the infant son he could not save, geneticist Geoff Burton plunges into a web of intrigue, jealousy and lies in this icily precise thriller.

 

FLIMMER (2012)

North American Premiere

Director – Patrik Eklund, 99min

Oscar-nominated short film director Patrik Eklund’s feature debut showcases the wry wit that made his shorts     so hugely popular in this tale of a small town telecom company plagued by anti-radiowave anarchists.

 

FUCK UP (2012)

North American Premiere

Director – Øystein Karlsen, 135min

Clearly it’s all the moose’s fault. Jack had everything under control until his best friend crashed into a moose on the Swedish border. With a trunk full of cocaine. Now it’s all gone to shit.

 

KING OF PIGS, THE (2011)

Texas Premiere

Director – Yeung Sang-ho, 97min

THE KING OF PIGS is an emotionally punishing animated indie film about a group of friends whose brutal childhoods continue to haunt them as adults.

 

PLAN C (2012)

World Premiere

Director – Max Porcelijn, 95min

Detective Ronald Plasmeyer has a problem in need of a solution: A ten thousand Euro debt to the Chinese mafia. Plan A didn’t work. Plan B made things much, much worse. Now it’s time for Plan C.