Air Canada enRoute Film Festival reveals 2012 finalists

Air Canada is pleased to announce the finalists of the sixth annual Air Canada enRoute Film Festival. Awards will be offered in categories including Best Short Film, Achievement in Documentary, Achievement in Direction and Achievement in Cinematography.

The 2012 Air Canada enRoute Film Festival finalists are:

• ?Alexander Carson for We Refuse to Be Cold
• Fernand-Philippe Morin-Vargas for Noeud papillon
• Danielle Sahota and Davina Rimmer for We Blinded the Sun
• Justin Friesen for Let’s Make Lemonade

The winner of the Best Short Film Award will receive a cash prize of $5,000, courtesy of Cineplex Entertainment, plus an all-inclusive Air Canada trip for two to the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France. Achievement Award winners will also attend the festival in France, courtesy of Air Canada.

Free public screenings of the top six films will take place Wednesday, November 7 at 7 p.m. (EST and PST) in Toronto at Varsity Theatre (55 Bloor St. W.), in Vancouver at the Scotiabank Theatre (900 Burrard St.) and in Montreal at the Quartier Latin (350 rue Emery). An invitation-only awards celebration catered by Eatertainment at Panorama Lounge (55 Bloor Street W., 51st floor) will follow the Toronto screening.

Winners were selected by a jury of industry experts including Jay Baruchel, actor (How to Train Your Dragon), Niv Fichman, producer (Passchendaele), Mary Harron, director (American Psycho), Alison Pill, actor (The Newsroom), Gordon Pinsent, actor (Away From Her), Callum Keith Rennie, actor (The Killing), Saul Rubinek, actor (Barney’s Version), Jacob Tierney, director (The Trotsky), and Karine Vanasse, actor (Polytechnique). Jury members expected to attend the awards celebration include actors Karine Vanasse and Saul Rubinek, director Jacob Tierney and producer Niv Fichman.