The third edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival (formerly the Baja International Film Festival) will have a distinctly Canadian flavour once again, with tributes to directors Atom Egoyan and Denys Arcand and juries which will include several Canadians, including TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling.

The festival, set to run from Nov. 12 to Nov. 16 in Los Cabos, Mexico, will screen Egoyan’s The Captive and The Sweet Hereafter and Arcand’s La Regne de la Beaute and Les Invasions Barnares as part of its tribute to the directors.

Handling will serve on a jury that will judge the Canadian, Mexican and American films screening in competition at the festival. The festival will also host its first Mexico-USA and Canada coproduction forum competition, where a jury will select a project to receive an $8,000 prize, with Canadian producer Lyse Lafontaine slated to participate as judge in this competition.

Laura Mackenzie, the director of strategic partners at the Atlantic Film Festival, will also serve as a judge for the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund award for development that will be presented at the festival. Seven winning projects will be awarded $5,000 through the development fund.

The Los Cabos festival is designed to profile Canadian, American and Mexican films and filmmakers and includes both a film market and public screenings.