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Whistler Film Festival Announces 2025 Line-up

by Pat Mullen
November 5, 2025
Festivals/News

The Whistler Film Festival announces its 2025 line-up including the opening night screening of You Had to Be There, and Mountain Culture films Forward and Our Kind of Chaos.

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500 Days in the Wild Wins Audience Award at Whistler Film Festival

by Pat Mullen
December 13, 2023
Festivals

500 Days in the Wild, directed by Dianne Whelan, wins the Audience Award at the Whistler Film Festival. Altona wins documentary prize.

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Whistler Film Festival Report: Where Mountains Meet Movies

by Pat Mullen
December 10, 2022
Festivals

Report from the 2022 Whistler Film Festival is a tale of mountains and movies with highlights including Tracing Influence, Rodeo, and Coyote.

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River, Coyote Top Whistler Film Festival Awards Winners

by Pat Mullen
December 4, 2022
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Jennifer Peedom's River wins the World Documentary Award at the Whistler Film Festival. Coyote tops Borsos Competition.

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Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Harnessing Nan Goldin’s Fight

by Pat Mullen
December 1, 2022
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An interview with Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

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Offside Tells the Story of Maple Leafs Mogul Harold Ballard

by Pat Mullen
November 30, 2022
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An interview with Offside: The Harold Ballard Story director Jason Priestley and executive producer Michael Geddes about their doc premiering at Whistler.

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Whistler Film Fest Docs Bring Hockey, Rock, and Oscar Frontrunners

by Pat Mullen
November 29, 2022
Festivals

Previewing the 2022 Whistler Film Festival, which features mountain movies, Laura Poitras, Daniel Roher, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and hockey docs.

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Whistler Film Festival Announces 2022 Line-up

by Pat Mullen
November 2, 2022
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Whistler Film Festival announced the line-up for its 2022 event, which runs in-person November 30 to December 4, and online afterwards.

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Bix and Brigitte Berman: restoring a jazz film classic

by Jason Gorber
December 7, 2021
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Oscar winner Brigitte Berman discusses her newly restored documentary Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet and finding new audiences for the story of a jazz legend.

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A Life in Paper: Tanya Lapointe on Her Claude Lafortune Doc ‘The Paper Man’

by Pat Mullen
December 4, 2020
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"Despite the fact that we think that paper will be thrown away in two years and won’t be any good anymore, [Claude]’s proven the opposite: paper can outlast our expectations of it."

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