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Terry Gilliam receives lifetime achievement award
By Stone Martindale
Apr 1, 2007, 2:42 GMT

British director and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Fantastic Film Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Gilliam, who has directed "Tideland," "Brazil," "Time Bandits" and "The Brothers Grimm," will also be giving a public interview at the Film Festival in Amsterdam, which runs from April 18 to April 25, the BBC reported Saturday.

Festival organizers said they were giving Gilliam the award since he "never allows his fantasy to be limited".

The 23 year old festival will also open with Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning "Pan's Labyrinth."

The organizers said that when the event started the media saw it as a "meeting ground for nerds with a taste for stomach-churning, violent horror."

The festival showcases fantasy, horror and science fiction films from around the world.