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19th April 2013

Air Canada enRoute Film Festival – Call for entries

enroute AirCanadaAir Canada has announced it is inviting Canadian film students and emerging filmmakers to enter its seventh annual enRoute Short Film Festival. Each year, a celebrity jury selects the best short films and broadcasts them to a large international audience on Air Canada’s enRoute in-flight entertainment system.

The winner of Best Short Film will receive a $5,000 cash prize courtesy of presenting sponsor Cineplex Entertainment. Other awards include Achievement in Direction, Achievement in Cinematography, Achievement in Animation and the second annual People’s Choice Award. All winners will receive an exciting new destination prize to a major international film festival courtesy of Air Canada.

Winning films are selected by an esteemed jury, which will be announced this summer. Past jury members have included Jean-Marc Vallée, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Atom Egoyan, Denis Villeneuve, Donald Sutherland, Molly Parker, Rémy Girard, Alan Cumming and Don Carmody, among many others.

Selected films will be broadcast on Air Canada’s personal seatback entertainment system and viewed by millions of Air Canada customers around the world. A free public screening and awards celebration will be held in Toronto at the end of the year to honour the winners. Additional screenings will take place in Vancouver and Montreal showcasing the selected films.

To download an entry form and view full contest rules and regulations, please visit the enRoute Short Film Festival website. Submissions will be accepted until Friday, May 31.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 19th, 2013 at 9:58 am and is filed under Contests, National News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
  1. Tami Quiring (@VillageGamer)
    2:59 am on April 19th, 2013

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  2. @More604
    5:24 am on April 19th, 2013

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