2015 Windsor Film Festival

2015 Windsor International Film Festival

The 10th annual Windsor International Film Festival of 2015 will run from Nov 3 to 8 and will be hosted at the Capitol Theatre in Windsor, where will be 90 films screened during the week.
WIFF celebrates the culture and history of the film making for people who are addicted to films. This year, the number of films is increased from different areas of the world. At the conclusion of the week, the WIFF 2015 People’s Choice Awards will be voted on by those who attended.

Vincent Georgie, the executive director of WIFF, said it is necessary for the city to have this event.

“The Windsor International Film Festival is a cultural, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to recognize and celebrate the art of cinema by films and film makers.” Georgie said. Through its exhibition education audiences for Canadian content and talent, it provides training opportunities for emerging film makers and promotes the creative economy of Windsor and Southwestern Ontario.”

WIFF began in 2005.Over the past ten years, it screens thousands of films from Windsor Toronto, Vancouver and international countries. The people who work for WIFF are all on volunteer, consisting of a well-rounded staff ranging from like program management to technical engineers. Each of them have specific people to work on it to make sure everything goes smoothly.
By the end of the film festival, movie goers will have an opportunity to cast a vote for their favourite films after each screening.

One important section of the festival, WIFF “local” is showing Canadian, local and international feature films of artistic and cultural significance is that wealth of subject matters this year.

Stillwater, directed by Sung Min Bae, shows the prohibition period of history during the 1920s through a touching story.

Set in 1923, the law in the U.S.A made the production, transportation and selling of alcohol illegally so that it created a market for Canadians to exploited it. Jackson is a young man working to provide for his family. But when Jackson’s kid sister falls deathly ill with Spanish flu, he can only stand idly by as Pastor Whitifield, a temperance-crazed Baptist pastor, performs final rights. When Jackson can’t afford medicine that might saved his sister, he desperately turns to stealing alcohol from the cellar of the local speakeasy. Caught red-handed in the cellar of the Sand Point Inn, Jackson is brought to the Inn’s enterprising proprietor, Edith Sinclair.

“We really think that as a film maker, it is our responsibility to show that how hard the life of the people lived in those years was and it is the part of Windsor’s culture, people should know it.” Sung Min Bae said.