Daniel Radcliffe, Rashida Jones and Eric Beckman will add star power to the 12th annual Whistler Film Festival.
The Hobbit‘s Radcliffe, who top-lines the Entertainment One romantic comedy The F Word, will participate in an informal conversation on Nov. 30, while Rashida Jones will receive a trailblazer award before a screening of Celeste and Jesse Forever.
And Eric Beckman, founder and CEO of GKIDS, will receive a trailblazer award for his animation output.
Elsewhere, Whistler will fete screenwriters like Ken Scott (Starbuck), Kate Dippold (The Heat) and Patrick Aison (Wunderkind).
“This year’s honorees represent the best of the next generation of cinematic storytellers, both in front of and behind the cameras,” said Whistler Film Festival’s director of rogramming Paul Gratton in a statement Friday.
Whistler also unveiled this year’s best Canadian feature Borsos jury, to include Canadian producer Martin Katz, actor/director Helen Shaver, and actors Rachelle Lefevre and Liane Balaban.
The best documentary jury includes Sundance Institute’s Bird Runningwater, actress Sarain Boylan and film critic Brian D. Johnson.
The Whistler Film Festival is to run from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2.