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Glen Schofield is an American video game artist, designer, director, and producer. He was formerly the vice president and general ❤️ manager at Visceral Games, co-founder of Sledgehammer Games, founder and former CEO of Striking Distance Studios,[1] and the creator and ❤️ executive producer of the third-person survival horror video game Dead Space.

Career [ edit ]

Schofield trained in both fine arts and ❤️ business, earning a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MBA from Golden Gate University. His career began as an artist ❤️ and art director with the New Jersey video game company Absolute Entertainment. He then relocated to Seattle to join the ❤️ West Coast's burgeoning video games industry.[2] His professional influences included Asteroids, Moon Patrol, Gunstar Heroes, Disruptor and the Contra series, ❤️ followed later by Resident Evil, Gears of War, and the franchise he would eventually contribute to, Modern Warfare.[3]

As a vice ❤️ president at Crystal Dynamics, Schofield headed development on two of the studio's franchises: Gex and Legacy of Kain. Moving to ❤️ EA Redwood Studios (later Visceral Games) as general manager, he collaborated with Bret Robbins, including the popular Lord of the ❤️ Rings video series and 007: From Russia with Love.[2]

Schofield's reputation grew with the 2008 title Dead Space, which the magazine ❤️ Edge called "a work of passionate sci-fi horror that became one of most commercially successful new properties of the year."[4] ❤️ Schofield has said that the film Event Horizon inspired him to create a game that fused the genres of science ❤️ fiction and horror. The game's theme of humans in space losing perspective to their place in the universe is influenced ❤️ by the works of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, after whom the game character Isaac Clarke was named.[5][6]

Fantasia International Film Festival Official poster of the 2011 Fantasia International Film Festival Opening film The Suicide Squad Closing film 3️⃣ The Great Yokai War: Guardians Location Montreal, Quebec, Canada Founded 1996 Festival date 14 July to 3 August, 2024 Language 3️⃣ International Website fantasiafest Current: 26th Fantasia International Film Festival 27th 25th

Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, 3️⃣ and Fant-Asia) is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It 3️⃣ focuses on niche, B-rated and low budget movies in various genres, from horror to sci-fi. Regularly held in July/August, by 3️⃣ 2024 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers and outgrown even the Montreal World Film Festival.

By virtue of the 3️⃣ reputation developed over the last two decades, Fantasia has been called the "most outstanding and largest genre film festival in 3️⃣ North America". Its mission is to promote genre, anti-Hollywood cinema and assist independent filmmakers. Fantasia has launched the careers of 3️⃣ many modern auteurs. Since 2012, the festival has also held the Frontières cinema market that allows promising projects to find 3️⃣ potential producers and distributors. In 2024 the Frontières announced collaboration with Marché du Film led by Cannes Film Festival.

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Fantasia focuses on niche, B-rated and low-budget films of various genres, from horror to science fiction, most of them 3️⃣ non-PG. It grew from the Asian Film scene in Montreal and still has a significant shift to Asian cinematograph.[1]

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