6th Fanheart3 Awards
Collateral Award at the 81th Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia
To celebrate movies and immersive experiences at Venezia81 that could impact fan culture and the production of fanworks.
Categories
Golden Clip
for best movie
To the film that will become a cult movie among fans
Silver Ship
for best OTP
To the characters whose relationship most closely match the typical tropes of fan culture and 'shipping'
XR
Fan Experience
To the immersive work that, in terms of content, storytelling and storyliving dynamics, best meets the interests and needs of fan communities in terms of emotional and mental involvement
Winners and Nominees
Golden Clip for best movie to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
by Tim Burton
For bringing a fandom popular in all its transpositions back into the limelight, and reviving a forgotten Tim Burton, back with a film that entertains and leaves the door open for potential sequels (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, anyone?)
Silver Ship for best OTP to the two lonely wolves of Wolfs
by Jon Watts
For exploring one of shipping's most popular tropes- the enemies to friends (to lovers) one- and offering the audience two characters who are interesting individually, but express their full potential in the couple dynamic, opening the film to fanon rewritings that will find ample space on social media, starting with the idea of extended family that is ironically presented in the film
XR Fan Experience to
Uncanny Alley: A New Day
by Stephen Butchko & Rick Treweek
For placing the audience at the center of the story and of the experience, and giving the user the opportunity to shape the tone of the adventure and the personality of their character, always finding someone on the other side who can adapt the performance in the best ways, through skillful use of improvisation and dynamics reminiscent of those in role-playing games
Honorable mention to Nightmara: Episode 3 by Gianpaolo Gonzalez
For the potentially transmedia approach to a story and characters that it is easy to become attached to and that you want to follow in other adventures
- Broken Rage directed by Takeshi Kitano
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice directed by Tim Burton
- Happyend directed by Neo Sora
- Joker: Folie à Deux directed by Todd Phillips
- Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry
- Peacock directed by Bernhard Wenger
- Planète B directed by Aude Léa Rapin
- Queer directed by Luca Guadagnino
- The Brutalist directed by Brady Corbet
- Wolfs directed by Jon Watts
- In the Realm of Ripley by Soo Eung Chuck Chae
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom by Kenichi Suzuki
- NightMara: Episode 3 by Gianpaolo Gonzalez
- Oto’s Planet by Gwenael François
- Project_Y: Working Title by Yuzu Sugano, Shingo Yoshimura, Toshiki Sakamoto, Taro Hirai
- Project: Lost World by Fins
- Pudica by Keisuke Ito
- The 7th Guest VR by Paul Van Der Meer
- Uncanny Alley: a New Day by Stephen Butchko, Rick Treweek
- What If…? - An Immersive Story by Dave Bushore
Jury
Cristina Saccon
Jury president
She is a founding member and current president of fanheart3. Active member of several online fan communities, she produces fanarts and graphics prompts under pseudonyms. She came up with the fanhunt, fanheart3’s fandom treasure hunt, and the fan cafés, fan get-togethers in various Italian locations
Socio fondatore di fanheart3, fanwriter e fanartist
Sara Bezzetto
Founding members of fanheart3, she is passionate about indie video games and is an active contributor to fan communities dedicated to gaming and the creation of genre videogames, with a focus on horror
Presidente fanheart3, fandom studies researcher, VR explorer
Agnese Pietrobon
Founding member of fanheart3, she ideated ficsIT, the first Italian convention dedicated to fanfiction. She is a former independent researcher with publications in the field of fandom studies and now her work focuses on storytelling and immersive technologies for the international website XRMust
Presidente fanheart3, fandom studies researcher, VR explorer
Laura Casagrande
She works in digital marketing with specialisation in film and publishing. Over the years she has collaborated with radio stations, magazines and blogs in the film industry. She is currently editor and content creator for the film web magazine My Red Carpet, for which she edited a podcast on costume design
Attore teatrale ed esperto di comunicazione
Francesca Ranaldo
Psychologist, she is passionate about historical fandoms and an expert on LGBTQIA+ dynamics in film and social issues
Attore teatrale ed esperto di comunicazione
The 2024 Prize
In light of the current worrying environmental situation, fanheart3 has once again opted for an ecological award. To celebrate our winners, we have made a donation on their behalf to Wow Nature, an Italian initiative run by researchers, experts and creative people with the aim of helping citizens, institutions and companies to grow new forests and protect existing ones.
For a second edition Fanheart3 chose to support a local craftsman, Mario and Matteo Favaro, who provided the frames containing the award certificates. Visit Mario Favaro’s website to find out more about their art.
Download the press releases
Previous editions' winners
Honorable mentions
