Maverick Award for Directing: Oscar-nominated director John Madden is bringing his latest film Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain to the festival. His most notable films are Shakespeare in Love, Proof, The Debt and beloved The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel.
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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.