'Red State' tops Sitges

'Red State' Sitges, The country-- Horror-thriller "Red-colored Condition," helmed by Kevin Cruz ("Clerks"), required film and actor (Michael Parks) in the 44th Sitges Festival, Europe's greatest genre pic confab, which wrapped Saturday.Toplining Parks, John Goodman and Melissa Leo, "Condition" activates several religious fundamentalists going to eradicate American teens' sex-drive. World-preeming at Sundance, and distributed Stateside by Cruz themself under his Smodcast Pictures banner, "Condition" is offered worldwide by IM Global. It's yet to snag distribution in The country. Online a reaction to its Sitges tests was tepid.Meanwhile, the Studiocanal-offered "Attack the Block", a South London-set alien invasion spoof, scooped believe it or not than four plaudits at Sitges: Special Jury Prize, the coveted Audience Award, Critics' Prize and soundtrack. Its first-time author-helmer, Joe Cornish, stated at Sitges he has all of the material he needs for his next project: All he needs to do would be to sit lower and write the script. Production-distribution house Avalon releases "Block" in The country 12 ,. 7.Sitges' actress award visited Brit Marling in Mike Cahill's "Another Earth," a Sundance Fox Searchlight pick-up that loved a warm audience and critical response in the Catalan fest.A sizable The spanish language genre Armada - "Emergo," "Blind Alley," "Avoi," "Juan from the Dead" - arrived at Sitges playing to large applause and something key plaudit: best f/x to Kike Maillo's Sitges opener "Avoi," Spain's first robot pic.Sitges ticket sales rose 5% to 65,000 with "Block," Nacho Vigalondo's "Extraterrestrial" y Jaume Balaguero's "Sleep Tight," which performed out-of-competition, showing the greatest draws. "Avoi," Benedek Fliegauf's "Womb" and "Tight" were one of the most buzzed-about fest photos, while Juan Andre Ovredal's mockumentary "Troll Hunter" and Juan Martinez Moreno's "Games of Werewolves" and Alejandro Brugues' "Juan from the Dead" spoofs elevated guffaws from Sitges auds."Tight" opened up Friday in The country nabbing around a good Euros180,000 ($245,000) off 230 screens.Spain's genre boom is bringing in ever-more interest abroad. Talent scouts only at that year's fest incorporated Marc Helwig (ICM), David Flynn and Jason Burns (UTA), and Abram Nalibotsky (The Gersh Agency).Fest runs March. 6-16, with Matthijs van Heijningen's "The One Thing" playing at its Saturday prize gala. And also the those who win are: FANTASTIC COMPETITION - SITGES 44 FILM"Red-colored Condition" (Kevin Cruz, U.S.) DIRECTORNa Hong-jin ("The Yellow Ocean") SPECIAL JURY AWARD"Attack the Block" (Joe Cornish, U.K.) ACTORMichael Parks ("Red-colored Condition") ACTRESSBrit Marling ("Another Earth," U.S.) SCREENPLAYLucky Mckee and Jack Ketchum ("The Lady," U.S.) CINEMATOGRAPHYMarkus Forderer and Tim Fehlbaum ("Hell," Germany) ART DIRECTIONMarc Thiebault ("Livide," France) Constitute F/XSteven Kostanski ("The Divide," Germany, Canada, U.S.) F/XLluis Castells and Javier Garcia ("Avoi," The country) ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKSteven Cost ("Attack the Block," U.K.) OTHER Honours FANTASTIC ORBITA AWARD"Responsible for Romance" (Sion Sono, Japan) YOUTH JURY AWARD"Bellflower," (Evan Glodell, U.S.) CASA ASIA AWARD"The Illegal" (Ryoo Seung-wan, Columbia) ANIMAT GERTIE FILM AWARD"Tatsumi," (Eric Khoo, Singapore, Indonesia) GOLDEN MELIES, EUROPEAN PICTURE"The Final Circus," (Alex p la Iglesia, The country, France) SILVER MELIES, EUROPEAN PICTURE"Kill List" (Ben Wheatley, U.K.) SHORT FILMEx a quo: "Dirty Silverware" (Steve Daniels, U.S.) and"The Unliving," (Hugo Lilja, Sweden) NEW VISIONS AWARD"Evening Fishing" (Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-kyong, Columbia) PERIODICO P CATALUNYA AUDIENCE AWARD"Attack the Block" JOSE LUIS GUARNER CRITICS' AWARD"Attack the Block" CITIZEN KANE AWARD For An UP-AND-COMING DIRECTOREx aequo:"El Paramo" (Jaime Osorio, Argentina, Colombia, The country), and"Hard Labor" (Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, South america) Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com