The Whistler Film Festival ( WFF ) is an annual film festival held in Whistler, British Columbia , Canada . Established in 2001, the festival is held the first weekend of December and includes juried competitive sections, the Borsos Awards, and the Pandora Audience Award. A conference for the Canadian film industry , known as the Whistler Summit, is organised in connection with the film festival.
11-620: The Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award is an annual juried award, given by the Whistler Film Festival to the film selected as the year's best documentary film in the festival program. Winners [ edit ] Year Film Director(s) Ref 2002 FIX: The Story of an Addicted City Nettie Wild 2003 Baghdad or Bust Matt Frame 2004 Scared Sacred Velcrow Ripper 2005 The Best of Secter and
22-556: A House Here Alan Zweig 2018 Momentum Generation Jeff Zimbalist , Michael Zimbalist 2019 Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band Daniel Roher 2020 Crock of Gold Julien Temple The Paper Man (Lafortune en papier) Tanya Lapointe 2021 Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Celeste Bell, Paul Sng 2022 River Jennifer Peedom Out in
33-779: A chat with filmmakers Monte Hellman, Bruce McDonald and Atom Egoyan and a new home for the film fest". Vancouver Sun , December 6, 2010. ^ Maggie Langrick, "Winnipeg filmmaker's Keyhole named best Canadian feature". Winnipeg Free Press , December 5, 2011. ^ Mark Leiren-Young , "A magical end to 2012 film festival". Vancouver Sun , December 3, 2012. ^ Fred Lee, "Snow business". The Province , December 15, 2013. ^ Cathryn Atkinson, "Quebec drama Félix et Meira sweeps Borsos Awards at WFF 2014" . Pique Newsmagazine , December 10, 2014. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "WFF 2015: River and Last Harvest lead award winners" . The Georgia Straight , December 6, 2015. ^ Cathryn Atkinson, "Quebec's Before
44-651: A reputation as one of the most important Canadian film festivals despite its location in a much smaller community than most of the other major festivals, particularly as a premiere venue for Canadian independent films. Some film critics have even gone so far as to suggest that the festival is emerging as Canada's equivalent to the influential American Sundance Film Festival . As of 2015, the Whistler Film Festival bills itself as "Canada's coolest film festival" and has been increasingly attracting more distributors and sales agents. The 2015 festival presented
55-454: A wrap; Moguls and movie-goers mingle at mountaintop meet-and-greet". Vancouver Courier , December 5, 2007. ^ Fred Lee, "Whistler fest shines on Canadian films; Justice gala supports first responders". National Post , December 13, 2008. ^ "Les Signes Vitaux wins Borsos" . Pique Newsmagazine , December 11, 2009. ^ Graeme McRanor, "It's a wrap for 10th anniversary of Whistler Film Festival; Highlights included
66-590: Is a non-cash prize presented to the highest-rated film as voted by the audience. There Is a House Here There Is a House Here is a Canadian documentary film by Alan Zweig , which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival . Taking its name from the English translation of Igloolik , the film explores several visits by Zweig to the Canadian territory of Nunavut , accompanied by rock singer Lucie Idlout . This article related to
77-701: The Canadian premiere of Carol and the world premiere of Rehearsal among other world premieres. About half the films screened are Canadian and Paul Gratton, who became the festival's director of programming in June 2012, would like the Whistler Film Festival to become a "mini- Sundance " for Canadian films. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada , the 2020 festival was staged entirely online. While most other Canadian film festivals which were staged online in 2020 geoblocked their service so that only viewers within
88-1424: The Rest of Secter Joel Secter 2006 Air Guitar Nation Alexandra Lipsitz 2007 We Are Together (Thina Simunye) Paul Taylor 2008 The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins Pietra Brettkelly 2009 Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space Denis Delestrac Last Train Home Lixin Fan 2010 Marwencol Jeff Malmberg 2011 Kivalina v. Exxon Ben Addelman 2012 Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada Karen Cho 2013 Jingle Bell Rocks! Mitchell Kezin 2014 The Backward Class Madeleine Grant 2015 Last Harvest Jane Hui Wang 2016 Sled Dogs Fern Levitt The Will to Fly Katie Bender , Leo Baker Mr. Zaritsky on TV Jennifer Di Cresce , Michael Savoie 2017 The Gospel According to André Kate Novack There Is
99-995: The Ring Ry Levey 2023 Altona Heath Affolter , Jon Affolter , Nathan Affolter , Thomas Affolter 500 Days in the Wild Dianne Whelan References [ edit ] ^ Dana Michell, "Film fest favourites announced" . Pique Newsmagazine , December 19, 2002. ^ "Film on Vancouver street life wins at Whistler". The Globe and Mail , December 10, 2003. ^ David Spaner, "Whistler finding its own niche: Emphasis on Canadian film gives young festival its identity". The Province , December 6, 2004. ^ Ilona Berks, "Industry turns out for Whistler" . Playback , January 9, 2006. ^ Fiona Hughes, "Happy People tops Whistler Fest awards". Vancouver Courier , December 6, 2006. ^ Michael Kissinger, "Whistler Film Festival
110-1653: The Streets wins Borsos Best Film Award at Whistler Film Festival" . Pique Newsmagazine , December 7, 2016. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "It's a tie for best Canadian feature at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival" . The Georgia Straight , December 4, 2017. ^ Adrian Mack, "Québécois film A Colony sweeps Whistler Film Fest awards" . The Georgia Straight , December 3, 2018. ^ Alyssa Noel, "Whistler Film Festival hands out awards" . Pique Newsmagazine , December 14, 2019. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Whistler Film Festival 2020 award winners: From B.C.'s Indian Road Trip to Newfoundland's Little Orphans" . The Georgia Straight , December 21, 2020. ^ Charlie Smith, "Cinema of Sleep wins Borsos award for best Canadian feature at Whistler Film Festival" . The Georgia Straight , December 20, 2021. ^ Pat Mullen, "River, Coyote Top Whistler Film Festival Awards Winners" . Point of View , December 4, 2022. ^ Taimur Sikander Mirza, "Atikamekw Suns wins best Canadian feature at WFF" . Playback , December 5, 2023. External links [ edit ] Official website Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whistler_Film_Festival_Documentary_Award&oldid=1188504847 " Categories : Canadian documentary film awards Whistler Film Festival Hidden category: Official website not in Wikidata Whistler Film Festival The festival has built up
121-646: The festival's home province were able to watch the films, Whistler made virtually its entire lineup available across Canada. In the same year, the festival also launched the Adventure Film Series, a summer program of films about adventure sports. The Whistler Film Festival features eight juried competitions with the following awards handed out at the Awards Brunch on the last day of the festival or post-event: The Borsos Awards are named after Canadian filmmaker Phillip Borsos . The Audience Award
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