American filmmaker Mike Flanagan will be the featured guest at Quebec’s Fantasia International Film Festival, where he will receive the festival’s Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award.
Flanagan has a long history with the Canadian genre festival. He screened his first feature, Absentia, at the festival in 2011.
His other feature credits include Oculus (2013), Hush (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019), as well as the Netflix miniseries events The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and The Fall of the House of Usher (2023).
His next feature is the forthcoming Stephen King adaptation The Life Of Chuck (2024), starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
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