Welcome to Festival 50 / 104

Festival 50 / 104 was a great success and was a wonderful film-filled four days in Regina from Spetember 13-16, 2007. The festival handed out several awards at the Fabulously Casual Celebration and Awards Night on Sunday, September 16th. The following awards were presented:

• SaskEnergy's Best of Festival: Monkey and Deer by Graeme Patterson
• The Filmpool 30th Anniversary Award: Rockpockets by Trevor Anderson
• Best Cinematography: What don't you understand about "I'm leaving...again?" by Amy Lynn Kazymerchuk
• Best Live Action Film: Close and Low by Jeff Winch
• Best Experimental Film: Elegy by Meesoo Lee
• Best Documentary: A Day in Palestine by Mary Ellen Davis, Jose Garcia & Will Eizlini

The winner of the Festival 50/104 Video Contest was Rob Theobart for Pasa el Jugo. Congrats to you, Rob for getting the loudest cheers and most applause which got you a big fat cheque for $501.04. Following the awards ceremony we had a wonderful performance by Regina based artists Brittany Kraus and Yossarian. Much fun was had by all and the staff at McNally's took great care of us, and generaously opened their doors for a regularly closed Sunday.

A special thanks goes out to all our sponsors: Canada Council for the Arts, SaskCulture, SMPIA and SaskLotteries, City of Regina, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Government of Saskatchewan (Advanced Education and Employment), SaskEnergy, SCN, Regina Public Library Film Theatre, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, National Film Board, the Nouveau Gallery, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, La Bodega, and SaskFilm. Click on their logos to the right for further information on these fantastic organizations.

Submissions for Festival 50 / 104 are now closed for 2007, we will be accepting submissions for 2009 in the coming year!

The Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative is proud to present our biannual festival, Festival 50 / 104. Designed to encourage indepent film in Saskatchewan and to connect our members to Canada's best independent shorts. This year we received a record number of submissions from across Canada. Click here for more information on our festival purpose. This year, the Filmpool was proud to include our festival as part of our 30th Anniversary events!

This years festival films covered the spectrum of many genres from filmmakers all across Canada. The shorts that were included were viewed by a pre screening jury and then put into 2 packages for your viewing enjoyment. These selected films were viewed by an audience of over 200 people inclouding our celebrity jurors; Colleen Murphy, Jayce Salloum and Zarqa Nawaz. Our festival jurors labored late into the night to make some hard decisions about the shorts deserving of our Festival Awards.

A great addition to the Festival was our video contest. Opened to Saskatchewan residents only, the video contest encouraged people who might not normally pick up a camera to do so and just get out there and shoot something just for fun. Well.... fun and a cheque for $501.04. The videos were a great collection of funny, satirical, odd and action packed adventures. If you were there, thanks for being a part of the Celebration! It was a blast.

Join us over the 2007-2008 year as we celebrate 30 years of independent filmmaking!

Festival 50,104 Sponsors:

Department of Advanced Education and Employment

Media Sponsor