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December 2nd at 8:00 p.m. For tickets click here.
Trailblazer Award: Deepa Mehta. The Canadian director is best known for her Earth Fire Water trilogy — Water was nominated for a Best Foreign Language film Oscar. And for her adaption of Salman Rushdie’s award-winning novel Midnight’s Children.
Last year she brought Beeba Boys — loosely based on Vancouver Indo gangster Bindy Johal — to the Vancouver International Film Festival.
And this year, she’s bringing docudrama An Anatomy of Violence about the infamous Indian rapists of a young women on a decommissioned bus to the Whistler Film Festival.
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Plus heading up the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature jury, with 19 films competing.
December 3rd at 8:00 p.m. For tickets click here.