Frontières, the awards of Canada’s Fantasia Film Festival, has announced this year’s winners. Freya took home the Post-Production Award, sponsored by PurpleDOG Post and worth $7,576. The same award, along with $3,788, was also given to Forum’s In the Heart of the South and Genre Film Lab’s Alligator.

Animal Realm, the nominee in the Shorts to Features section, won the Pitch Deck Award, offered by The Film Deck.

Freya, which is set in a future Australia where abortion is completely illegal, is currently in the post-production stage. It won a pitching competition in 2022 for an AACTA grant and will be distributed in Australia and New Zealand when it is released.

Several other films that were chosen for awards and shown at the festival, including Alligator and Animal Realm, are currently in post-production and will be released sometime in the future.

“We are extremely grateful to PurpleDOG Post and The Film Deck for supporting us with the awards this year,” said Annick Mahnert, the executive director of Frontières. “Our plan is to continue doing it and hopefully grow, by partnering up with the companies that can support filmmakers in their production process.”

Fantasia Film Festival, which director Guillermo del Toro called “a shrine to all geeks and a feast for those who love things completely unlovable to the most,” occurs annually in July/August.