Since its inception in 1996, the Fantasia Festival is now recognized as the biggest and most important event of its kind in North America, a leader on the genre film scene and one of the country's most popular film festivals. With a varied programming and an emphasis on the imaginative cinema of Asia, Europe and the Americas, Fantasia's offerings range from unique and powerful personal visions to international commercial crowd-pleasers rarely seen in North-America. Its 2011 line-up of over 120 feature films and several hundred shorts will include extraordinary new works from living legends of World Cinema and brilliant emerging talents from a wealth of countries.