Saturday July 30th 2022

8:15-11:00 - Stage Contest

8:00 - 9:00: Ekaterina Dobrokhotov

9:00 - 10:00: Michael Ammar

10:00 - 11:00: Eric Jones

11:30 - 12:30: Max Maven presents Erika Larsen: The Story of the Magic Castle

12:00 - 13:00: Miguel Munoz

13:00 - 15:00: Raphaël Navarro and Valentine Losseau

14:00 - 15:00: Julie Eng

16:00 - 18:00: The Winners Gala

18:30 - 19:30: Alexandra Duvivier

19:30 - 20:30: Special Lecture - Luis Piedrahita

21:00 - 23:00: Awards Gala

Winners

Stage Illusion

1. Yunke - Spain -
2. Doble Mandoble - Belgium

Card magic

1. Markobi - France -

2. Pere Rafart - Spain

3. Erik Tait - U.S.

Micro magic

1 Luis Olmedo- Spain - tie with Simon Coronel- U.A. Micro magic

2 Jacob Schenstrom - Sweden

3. Mr. Triton - France

Parlour magic

1. Shoot Ogawa - U.S. -

2.Javi Rufo - Spain and Vincent - Australia

3. Jonio - Japan

Mental magic

1. Anca & Lucca - Austria -

2. Rob & Emiel - Netherlands

3. Magic Larry - Argentina and Andrea Rizzolini - Italy

Manipulation

1. Junwoo Park - Japan - tie with And Artem Shchukin - Russia

2. Eden - Korea

3. Francesco Della Bona- Italy

Comedy magic

1. Mortenn Christiansen - Denmark -

2. Ramo & Alegria - Spain

3. Marie Helene - France

General magic

1. Laurent Piron - Belgium

2. Ding Yang - China

3. Zhu MingHu - China

Close up most original act-

Gleb - Lithuania -

Close up Invention award -

Martin Eisele - Germany and Daniel Mormona - Argentina -

Stage magic - most original act -

Ding Yang - China

Stage magic - invention -

Ramo & Alegria - Spain and HJ - Taiwan and Zhu Mingzhu - China -

Special Awards Presented by Max Maven

Creativity & artistic vision - Special Awards - Topas -

History, Research & Scholarship Richard Kaufman -

Theory & Philosophy Dani DaOrtiz -

Close-up Grand Prix - Simon Coronel - U.S.

Stage magic Grand Prix - Laurent Piron - Belgium

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - In the Grand Hall, Scott Wells thanks everyone for listening to the daily reports.

00:03:30 - Lady Sarah and Keith Fields are on the final day of the six days of non-stop magic and little sleep. They chat about some of the highlights of acts they love.

00:16:01 - Eric Dittelman, runner-up on America’s Got Talent, talks about his first FISM and how blown away he has been. He talks about the mentalism acts from his perspective as a mentalist. He also talks about his podcast with Mat Franco called “Mind Over Magic” which they started during the pandemic lock down.

00:19:09 - Past winner at FISM, Topas talks about competing and his thoughts about some behind-the-scenes that goes into making this event a success. He talks about the evolution of manipulation from Cardini to Fred Kaps to Peter Marvey to Mako Tendo.

00:29:16 - Past International President of the I.B.M. Joe Turner talks about some of the FISM activities, this being his first time attending a FISM.

00:32:50 - The stage contests are completely over as Marc DeSouze and Scott talk about the last set of contestants.

00:50:30 - As we walk back from dinner, Dick Olson talks about what he learned from the Chip Romero lecture on Doug Henning. Then Chip “chips in” with his comments on how he felt about his presentation plus some additional comments about Doug that he didn’t have time to share during his lecture.

00:59:35 - Another past winner of FISM, Danny Kole (and a Friend of the Magic Word), tells why he attends every FISM he can make time for in his schedule and how they inspire him. He also talks about some of his highlights from this year’s FISM.

01:05:19 - Marc DeSouza and Scott announce the names of the winners of this year’s FISM along with those who received some special awards.

01:17:50 - As an epilogue, we take a breather with Jonathan Levit who talks about this being his first FISM and how he tries to name just a few of the highlights of the event.

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