KINGSTON CANADIAN FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS NINTH ANNUAL EVENT
Opening gala film One Week wins People's Choice Award
Kingston ' The Kingston Canadian Film Festival wrapped its ninth annual festival with a free screening of Randall Cole's Real Time. The closing screening concluded a successful event that saw nearly 5,000 attendees, 26 film screenings, three workshops, two receptions and a very popular student career event. Additional information about the festival is available on the festival's website www.kingcanfilmfest.com.
The festival began with the '10 Years, 10 Minutes' Award workshop facilitated by filmmaker Audrey Cummings. Local aspiring filmmakers learned about the festival's '10 Years, 10 Minutes' Award contest, which will award $5,000 cash and industry mentoring for a local filmmaker to produce a short film. Thursday night's opening gala of One Week played to a full house; director Michael McGowan, editor Rod Deogrades and producer Avi Federgreen were in attendance. One Week also won the People's Choice Award, as determined by audience ratings of each film at the festival.
The new career initiative Breaking In: Starting a Career in Film & Media, held Friday, featured more than 15 industry representatives from all facets of the film and media industry and provided students the opportunity to ask questions and learn about starting their careers. More than 200 students participated in this incredibly successful first time festival event. More than 30 children attended the Saturday morning NFB Kids' Animation Workshop at TVCogeco's studio. The children made plasticine characters, learned how to shoot stop-action animation photography, and created short animated films. Saturday evening, director and writer Deepa Mehta delighted a surprised audience when she unexpectedly attended the screening of her film Heaven on Earth.
The Kingston Canadian Film Festival is presented by The Kingston Whig-Standard and Cogeco, operates in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival Group, and receives funding from the Ontario Arts Council, The City of Kingston, the Kingston Arts Council, the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund and the Davies Charitable Foundation.
Kingston ' The Kingston Canadian Film Festival wrapped its ninth annual festival with a free screening of Randall Cole's Real Time. The closing screening concluded a successful event that saw nearly 5,000 attendees, 26 film screenings, three workshops, two receptions and a very popular student career event. Additional information about the festival is available on the festival's website www.kingcanfilmfest.com.
The festival began with the '10 Years, 10 Minutes' Award workshop facilitated by filmmaker Audrey Cummings. Local aspiring filmmakers learned about the festival's '10 Years, 10 Minutes' Award contest, which will award $5,000 cash and industry mentoring for a local filmmaker to produce a short film. Thursday night's opening gala of One Week played to a full house; director Michael McGowan, editor Rod Deogrades and producer Avi Federgreen were in attendance. One Week also won the People's Choice Award, as determined by audience ratings of each film at the festival.
The new career initiative Breaking In: Starting a Career in Film & Media, held Friday, featured more than 15 industry representatives from all facets of the film and media industry and provided students the opportunity to ask questions and learn about starting their careers. More than 200 students participated in this incredibly successful first time festival event. More than 30 children attended the Saturday morning NFB Kids' Animation Workshop at TVCogeco's studio. The children made plasticine characters, learned how to shoot stop-action animation photography, and created short animated films. Saturday evening, director and writer Deepa Mehta delighted a surprised audience when she unexpectedly attended the screening of her film Heaven on Earth.
The Kingston Canadian Film Festival is presented by The Kingston Whig-Standard and Cogeco, operates in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival Group, and receives funding from the Ontario Arts Council, The City of Kingston, the Kingston Arts Council, the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund and the Davies Charitable Foundation.
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