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The former executive producer at the National Film Board of Canada believed in the power of documentary filmmaking to drive social change
Read MoreReally Happy Someday wins Borsos Award for best Canadian feature film
Read MoreFairy Creek and Resident Orca follow impassioned fights, while NiiMisSak: Sisters In Film celebrates Indigenous impacts onscreen
Read MoreProducer-screenwriter Sean Harris Oliver toys with reality as “documentary” crew follows story of two missing teens into the deep, dark woods of Vancouver Island
Read MoreRunning December 4 to 8, fest to feature Ben Affleck-helmed Unstoppable, Queer with Daniel Craig and Jason Schwartzman, and September 5 with Peter Sarsgaard
Read MoreThey’ll be competing in juried Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature at event December 4 to 8
Read MoreDocumentary follows B.C. filmmaker Dianne Whelan’s 24,000-kilometre trek along the Trans Canada Trail
Read MorePicturesque 25-year reunion between old college friends brings up nostalgia as a sombre secret lurks in the background
Read MoreSean Garrity’s feature gets at both sides of the lies
Read MoreB.C. filmmaker-photographer braved snow, bears, rapids, and other challenges in six-year journey, in Whistler Film Festival premiere
Read MoreThe darkly fun Zoe.mp4 and the mountain bike doc Adaptation
Read MoreVancouver director’s longtime collaborators make the most of their mother-and-daughter roles—amid kidnapped dogs, sex as currency, and a Kitsilano real-estate caper
Read MoreFeaturing film premieres, industry summits, parties, and more, annual event is also the perfect opportunity to enjoy a relaxing, pre-festive getaway to a winter wonderland
Read MoreLive event November 29 to December 3 features three locally directed world premieres, including Bruce Sweeney’s She Talks to Strangers
Read MoreFascinating characters, and some dark times, as documentary travels from 1950s through WWE to today
Read MoreHuman Extreme, Offside: The Harold Ballard Story, and Diaspora among the 2022 fest’s compelling titles
Read MoreThe multidisciplinary artist’s feature has its Western Canadian premiere at the 2022 fest
Read MoreHighlights include White Noise starring Adam Driver; Thierry Donard’s Human Extreme; and the Canadian fest premiere of Guillermo del Torro’s Pinocchio
Read MoreNouveau Quebec’s Sarah Fortin, $avvy’s Robin Hauser, and Fanmi’s female-directing team honoured at WFF, running online to December 31
Read MoreValerie Buhagiar’s Malta-set Carmen, Rebecca Campbell’s shocking egg-donor doc The Secret Society, and more
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