Air Canada enRoute Film Festival

Air Canada enRoute Film Festival
Location Canada
Founded 2007
Hosted by Air Canada & enRoute Magazine
Language English, French
Website http://www.enroutefilm.com

The Air Canada enRoute Film Festival is an annual film festival of short films hosted by Air Canada and its in-flight magazine and audio-visual entertainment enRoute Magazine. Films are shown in flight and screened theatrically in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Background

The festival began in 2007.[1] The festival has a different jury each year consisting of film industry professionals including famous actors, writers, directors and producers. The festival's purpose is to generate exposure for emerging filmmakers.

2007

2007 Jury: Atom Egoyan, Piers Handling, Robert Lantos, Donald Sutherland, Denise Robert, Patrick Huard, David La Haye, Torill Kove, Paul Gratton, Geoff Pevere and Hussain Amarshi.[1]

2007 Award Winners:

2008

2008 Jury: Dan Aykroyd, Wendy Crewson, Colm Feore, Arsinée Khanjian, Andrea Martin, Patricia Rozema, Rob Stewart, Yves Simoneau and Noah Cowan.

2008 Award Winners:

2009

In 2009, the festival opened up submissions to more than just film students, changing the aim of the festival to emerging filmmakers.

2009 jury: Remy Girard, Judy Gladstone, Deepa Mehta, Lisa Ray, and Michael McGowan.

2009 Award Winners:

2010

2010 Jury: Alan Cumming, Carlo Rota, Denis Villeneuve, Jason Priestley, Jeremy Podeswa, Kari Skogland, Sheila McCarthy.[2]

2010 Winners:

Awards were presented October 13 at the Drake Hotel.[3]

2011

2011 Jury: Atom Egoyan, Don Carmody, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Molly Parker, Jean-Marc Vallée.[4]

2011 Winners:

2012

2012 Jury: Jay Baruchel, Niv Fichman, Mary Harron, Alison Pill, Gordon Pinsent, Callum Keith Rennie, Saul Rubinek, Jacob Tierney and Karine Vanasse.[5][6]

2012 Winners:

The 2012 gala was held at the Panorama Lounge in Toronto with Master of Ceremonies Ben Mulroney.[9] In 2012, the winner of the best film award received a cash prize of $5,000 and a paid trip to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.[5]

2013

2013 Jury: Suzanne Clément, Enrico Colantoni, Wendy Crewson, Sarah Gadon, Evan Goldberg, Martin Katz, Michael McGowan, Chloé Robichaud.

2013 Winners:

2014

2014 Jury: Don McKellar, Louise Archambault, Jennifer Baichwal, Luc Déry, Michael Fukushima, Guy Maddin, Gia Milani, Andrew Moir, Jennifer Podemski, Laura Vandervoort.

References

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