Whistler Film Festival

The Whistler Film Festival is an annual film festival in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. It was established in 2001. The festival, which is held the first weekend in December, includes six juried competitive sections and one audience award. A conference for the Canadian film industry, known as the Whistler Summit, is organised in connection with the film festival.

As of 2015, the WFF bills itself as "Canada's coolest film festival"[1][2] and has been attracting more distributors and sales agents.[3] In 2015 the WFF had the Canadian premiere of Carol[4] and the world premiere of Rehearsal[5] among other world premieres.[6] About half the films screened are Canadian (as of the 2015 festival), and Paul Gratton (who became the WFF director of programming in June 2012) would like the festival to become a "mini-Sundance" for Canadian films.[3]

In addition to an Audience Award, the festival has several juried awards with (according to the festival's website for 2015) 14 prizes worth a total of $147,500. A set of prizes for Canadian films in competition is named for Phillip Borsos.[7]

The aggreggate of entrances at all screenings, for 2015, was 13,233.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Peter Belsito (9 December 2015). "The 15th Edition of ‘Canada’s Coolest Film Festival’ Wraps". Indiewire / SydneysBuzz. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Katherine Brodsky (5 January 2016). "Canada's "Coolest" Film Festival". Paste Magazine. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 Katherine Brodsky (27 November 2015). "Whistler Film Festival: Canadian Content Meets Kudos Contenders". Variety. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Etan Vlessing (4 November 2015). "Todd Haynes' Lesbian Romance 'Carol' to Open Whistler Film Fest". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Etan Vlessing (25 November 2015). "Bruce Greenwood to Get Career Tribute at Whistler Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Chris Knight (8 December 2015). "Whistler Film Festival: We’re not in Toronto anymore". National Post. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Awards & Juries". Whistler Film Festival. Retrieved 7 February 2016.

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