Plus: Jennifer Podemski wins ACTRA Award of Excellence and Tulipani nabs an international audience award.
While B.C. is booming, panelists and attendees stressed the need for more provincial funds to support local production.
Twenty films will compete for the Borsos prize, including Pat Kiely’s Someone Else’s Wedding.
The festival has also announced the Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship and Power Pitch participants.
Through a partnership with Buffer Fest and a music-focused program, the Vancouver festival aims to draw in new parts of B.C.’s creative ecosystem with its expanding roster of programs.
Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Luk’ Luk’l won best Canadian first feature, while the FIPRESCI jury awarded Sadaf Foroughi for her debut film Ava.
Producers Christine Haebler, Trish Dolman and Paula Devonshire discuss their goals for the “hands across the nation” project that has caught the attention of Clint Eastwood.
The Banger Films-produced documentary premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival tonight.
The Toronto prodco’s co-founder Scot McFadyen talks about jumping straight into production, leaving the directing to others and building the Canadian mythology.
Three years after meeting at the Toronto fest, the prodco’s co-owners Matt Code and Kristy Neville are returning for the world premieres of Cardinals and Mary Goes Round.
The director and CEO will vacate his post following TIFF ’18, with the festival beginning its search for his replacement in the coming months.