Demián Rugna, one of the Festival's favorite sons, made his mark with When Evil Lurks, a terrifying rural expedition that would become the first Argentinean film to take home the Sitges Film Festival's top honors. Meanwhile, Victoria Warmerdam won the Official Fantastic In-Competition Selection's Award for Best Short Film with I'm Not a Robot, a victory that would catapult her to win the Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short Fiction Film a year and a half later. Among the honorary award winners were Hideo Nakata, Mary Lambert, J.A. Bayona and Lee Unkrich who, to top it all off, mesmerized the Auditori's entire audience with a captivating presentation on his findings surrounding Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
