It’s East meets West after the Whistler Film Festival unveiled six Canadian films that will vie in the upcoming 2011 Borsos competition for a $15,000 cash prize.

Competing for best Canadian feature film from western Canada is the B.C. theatrical comedy Doppelganger Paul (pictured), from directors Dylan Akio Smith and Kris Elgstrand, and Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin and Keyhole.

Both films are making their western Canadian premieres after bowing in Toronto at TIFF.

And B.C. writer/director Christopher Petry’s Marilyn, about a bank robber on the run who takes a runaway young woman under his wing, will also compete for a Borsos trophy.

Petry’s crime romancer will receive its world premiere at Whistler.

And headed to Whistler from eastern Canada to snag the Borsos trophy are three heavyweights that bowed in Toronto: 388 Arletta Avenue, by Toronto filmmaker Randall Cole, and from Quebec, Jean Marc Vallee’s Café de Flore and Monsieur Lazhar by  Philippe Falardeau, which earned the best Canadian feature film prize at TIFF.

The Borsos competition is named after the late Canadian filmmaker Phillip Borsos, best known for The Grey Fox and Bethune: Making Of A Hero.

A three-strong Borsos jury to be unveiled next week will select this year’s best Canadian film from among the half-dozen entries.

The winner will be unveiled at an awards ceremony on Dec. 4 in Whistler.

The Whistleblower, Larysa Kondracki’s political thriller that stars Rachel Weisz and Vanessa Redgrave, won the 2010 Borsos competition.