The 2019 Windsor International Film Festival was a grand 10-day celebration of Canadian film. We had been critical of the film festival not having enough Canadian films in recent years. This year's version had plenty of Canadian films.
Our 2017 coverage separated out sections for features and documentaries. Our 2019 coverage will be in English, French, and documentaries.
The festival had an outdoor tent on the last 3 days of the festival. WIFF Alley (seen above) commemorated the love of film.
WIFF is now the number one volunteer-run film festival in Canada.
WIFF Announces KUESSIPAN as the Winner of the inaugural Prize in Canadian Film https://t.co/np9avDf4TZ pic.twitter.com/sEmLRk8ItB
— WIFF (@WindsorFilmFest) November 11, 2019
Kuessipan won the WIFF Prize in Canadian Film award. The winning film gets the honour and a $10,000 cash award. This is the first year WIFF has had this award.
Kuessipan won over a rather remarkable group of Canadian films to win the award. My vote would have gone for And The Birds Rained Down but the vote would have been close. The other Canadian film nominees were Antigone; Castle in the Ground; Easy Land; Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind; Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger; Matthias and Maxime; Prey; and Willie.
The jury was comprised of Karen Bruce, Women in Film & Television Toronto executive director; Joshua Riehl, director of The Russian Five; and Isabelle Corriveau, Radio-Canada producer.
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There were a number of films that we could not cover during the film festival.
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band was the most prominent film. We will cover the film in a separate film review. Lie Exposed and For Those Who Don't Read Me were fiction films that we really wanted to cover. Hope is not high to find either film but we hope for hope.
Other documentaries not reviewed from the film festival were Conviction, Final Offer (1985), Killing Patient Zero, and There Are No Fakes. Co-productions not covered were Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees; City Dreamers; and Toxic Beauty. Other local films not covered were Ghost Artist; Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars; Last Call; Prey; The Quick and Dirty (preceded by Finding Feather Hat Guy); and That Is All.
photo credit: me
logo credit: Windsor International Film Festival
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