THE BARRY CONVEX AWARD
for Best Canadian Feature

Administered by Spectacular Optical
with support from the Paul A. Ray Memorial Fund

Spectacular viagra to order Optical returns to the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2015 to present the first-ever Barry Convex Award, a new prize available to all Canadian genre features and co-productions making their Canadian premiere at the festival. Spectacular Optical, which started as the Fantasia International Film Festival’s online web journal, was reinvented as an independent small press publisher of film and pop-culture books in 2014 with Kid Power! and returns to the festival this year for the launch of its latest book, Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the cheapest viagra usa 1980s. The Fantasia International Film Festival is hosting Spectacular Optical’s presentation of this award.

Why Barry Convex? Named after the head of the fictional company Spectacular Optical in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1984) as played by iconic character actor Les Carlson, Barry Convex understood the transformative power of dark and dangerous imagery. In this robust new era of Canadian genre film, the subversive potential of Canadian cinema is now being appreciated in ways it wasn’t during the initial tax-shelter era that produced Videodrome. And it’s time to recognize that.

The film selected for the Barry Convex Award will receive a physical award featuring artwork by renowned Canadian genre artist Gary Pullin, as well as $1,000 cash courtesy of the Paul A. Ray Memorial Fund.

A lifelong genre fan (and the father of Spectacular Optical’s Owner and Editor-in-Chief http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/2021/02/female-viagra-next-day-delivery/ Kier-La Janisse) Paul A. Ray passed away in 2014, within months of the passing of Les Carlson. This award is dedicated to viagra price germany their memory.

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The Barry Convex Award will be given out at the awards ceremony at The Fantasia International Film Festival and will be juried for its first year by Spectacular Optical founder and EIC Kier-La Janisse and Managing Editor Paul Corupe.

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, soft viagra publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).