Grand River Film Festival opens Monday night
Posted Oct 24, 2016 10:29:59 AM.
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The Grand River Film Festival is celebrating a decade of local, Canadian and international film.
The festival takes place at a number of venues across Waterloo Region with opening night taking place at the Dunfield Theatre, Cambridge at 7:30 this evening.
Tamara Louks with GRFF says the festival began in Cambridge and has now grown to venues through out the region.
“It really is a volunteer driving organization and we have over 80 volunteers deliver just over a thousand hours of work to help make the festival happen.”
Over the last 10 years they have had some notable guests including Canadian Filmmaker Bruce McDonald and actress Susan Sarandon.
Other events taking place during the week long festival:
MCAP SHORT Shorts: The highly successful competition is a forum for recognition and awards, and provides filmmakers an avenue to screen their films in a festival setting. Guest judges select the winning films awarded with cash and product prizing.
Industry Sessions: GRFF hosts a development program to provide resources and learning opportunities for filmmakers to grow artistically and deepen connections within the industry and across our community.
Cin-E-merge: This educational outreach series launched in 2013 to encourage an interest in the film industry with our region’s youth. Cin-E-merge is committed to offering exciting and accessible programming for students to screen independent projects, learn from captivating presentations, and network with leading local film and video industry professionals.
The Grand River Film Festival offers local, Canadian and international film hosted throughout the region, paring screenings with industry professionals along with local interest groups.
You can find a list of films along with screening and venue information here.
