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Fantasia Festival

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Fantasia Festival

2018

The new web platform for the Fantasia Festival highlights the particularly flamboyant and iconic visual identity of the event. The new website was launched for the 22nd edition and was well-received by the Festival's famously hard-to-please audience.

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UX, web design and development

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Fantasia Festival

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Robert Pattinson, Ben & Josh Safdie. Guillermo del Toro. Mark Hamill. Takashi Miike. Tony Todd. Danny Masterson. David Bordwell. David Arquette. Jaume Balagueró. Jay Baruchel. Michael J. Bassett, Michael Biehn, Don Bluth, Kim Bodnia, Darren Lynn Bousman, Nicolas Bro, Jörg Buttgereit, Paul Campion, John Carpenter, Hélène Cattet, Nacho Cerda, Lau Ching-Wan, Larry Cohen, Joe Coleman, Jeffrey Combs, Don Coscarelli, Maurice G. Dantec, Roy Dupuis, Jason Eisener, Larry Fessenden, Bruno Forzani, Amanda Fuller, Xavier Gens, Julian Gilbey, Buddy Giovinazzo, Stuart Gordon, Matthew Gray Gubler, Adam Green, Sasha Grey, James Gunn, Robin Hardy, Lee Hae-young, Ray Harryhausen, Frank Henenlotter, Noburo Iguchi, Yang Ik-June, Yoshimasa Ishibashi, Shunji Iwai, Kang Je-gyu, Lee Joon-ik, Terry Jones, Shusuke Kaneko, Udo Kier, Ryûhei Kitamura, Satoshi Kon, Ted Kotcheff, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tyler Labine, John Landis, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Casper van Dien, Bruce Leung, Gordon Liu, David Lowery, José Mojica Marins, Neil Marshall, Malcolm McDowell, Lucky McKee, Glenn McQuaid, Jim Mickle, Daniel Monzón, Bill Mosely, Hideo Nakata

Redesign of the web platform

Loyal fans

Before the launch of the platform, festival goers had to manually create their schedules. This quickly becomes a hassle with the amount of movies available and scheduling conflicts. The redesign allows users to fashion their own personalized schedules enhancing their overall festival experience. The main challenge was creating a more fluid, intuitive user experience that also encouraged sharing and communication between users.

The new website with the scheduling functionalities and favorites is awesome!

Charles Soulière

A Customizable Festival for Each User

The site is filled with relevant functionalities for users such as advanced search options for the movie listing, quick access to programming, the possibility to save your favourites, and the ability to create a personalized agenda. To accomplish this, we connected the site to Festival Zone (an external database), a quite large technological obstacle in itself when dealing with personalizable schedules.

Visuals with a Punch

Visuals are at the core of the Fantasia experience, seen in both the original illustrations created for each edition and the photos and posters linked to each film. This is why as the header, the site emphasises the Festival's mythical cat, making it move depending the user's perspective. Each new edition's main poster will be portrayed the same way. The web pages for each movie have been designed as beautifully constructed dynamic building blocks brought to life by an angled animation triggered by the movement of the mouse. This emphasises both the visuals and the information on the page.

One of a Kind

Fantasia is an important festival in the that is not to be missed on the international circuit en Genre Film Festival, and it therefore needed a platform representative of this status. The redesign, new layout for content, and scheduling functionalities lead to a substantial increase in ticket sales for the 2018 edition. The highly responsive design greatly contributed to this.

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Fantasia Festival

Brand Expression

A Large Dose of Fantasy

2018

Redesign of the web platform

Loyal fans

A Customizable Festival for Each User

Visuals with a Punch

One of a Kind

Let's work together

You want to see more?

Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton

Raymond Chabot
Grant Thornton