Air Canada enRoute Film Festival

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Air Canada enRoute Film Festival
Location Canada
Founded2007
Hosted by Air Canada & enRoute Magazine
Language English, French
Website http://www.enroutefilm.com

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

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Background

The festival began in 2007. [1] The festival had a different jury each year consisting of film industry professionals including famous actors, writers, directors and producers. The festival's purpose was to generate exposure for emerging filmmakers. The last year the festival was in place was 2016.

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. [10]

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. [11]

2014 Winners

2015

2015 Jury: Tatiana Maslany, John Galway, François Girard, Sophie Desmarais, Yassmina Karajah, Ron Mann, Ruba Nadda, Catherine O'Hara, Julie Roy and Albert Shin [12]

2015 Winners

2016

2016 Jury: Patricia Rozema, Jennifer Baichwal, Stephen Dunn, Caitlin Durlak, Sarah Gadon, Chris Landreth, Jason Priestley and Karine Vanasse [13]

2016 Winners

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