Air Canada enRoute Film Festival reveals 2014 award nominees, announces free public screening events

TORONTO, Oct. 14, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Air Canada is pleased to announce the finalists of the eighth annual Air Canada enRoute Film Festival. Award categories include Best Short Film, Achievement in Direction, Achievement in Cinematography, Achievement in Animation, and, new this year, Achievement in Documentary.

The 2014 Air Canada enRoute Film Festival Award Nominees are:

• Yassmina Karajah for Light
• Renaud Lessard for The Wild Kids 
• Russell Ratt-Brascoupe for The Hearing
• Raquel Sancinetti for Cycle

The winner of the Best Short Film Award will receive a cash prize of $5,000 courtesy of Cineplex Entertainment. All winners will receive an all-inclusive trip for two to the Berlin International Film Festival, courtesy of Air Canada.

A free public screening of the nominated short films will take place on Wednesday, November 5 at the Scotiabank Theatre Toronto (259 Richmond Street St. W., Toronto) from 7 to 9 p.m. An exclusive awards celebration will take place at 2^nd Floor Events immediately after the screening. The awards ceremony will be hosted by an ETALK presenter. Jury members expected to attend the awards celebration include NFB Executive Producer Michael Fukushima, actor Jennifer Podemski and 2013 Air Canada enRoute Film Festival Best Short Film Award Winner Andrew Moir.

Voting for the People's Choice Award runs until Friday, October 31 on enroutefilm.com. The winner will be announced at the Wednesday, November 5 awards celebration and will win a trip for two to a destination of their choice within North America, courtesy of Air Canada. 

The Air Canada enRoute Film Festival continues to grow nationally. Earlier this summer Vancouver hosted the official launch event at the Vancity Theatre. On Monday, November 3, Montreal will host a panel for emerging filmmakers, followed by a screening and reception at the Centre Phi (407 Rue Saint Pierre, Montréal).

From August to December 2014, millions of Air Canada passengers can view all of the selected short films on their personal entertainment system, which offers 600 hours of digital movies, television and music entertainment, available on demand at the touch of a finger.

For news on the festival, film profiles, and events please visit www.enroutefilm.com.

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The Air Canada enRoute Film Festival would like to thank the following sponsors: Cineplex Entertainment, ETALK, Spafax, eOne and Telefilm Canada. Industry Partners: Directors Guild of Canada, Movieola, William F. White International Inc., National Film Board of Canada and Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival. Event Sponsors: 2nd Floor Events, Centre Phi, Constellation Brands and Mill Street Brewery.

About Air Canada's enRoute In Flight Entertainment:
Air Canada's enRoute In-flight Entertainment offers over 600 hours of on-demand entertainment available free of charge at the touch of a finger. Its gate-to-gate in-flight entertainment programming features up to 150 movies in all genres, including the latest Hollywood and independent titles produced locally and internationally in more than 20 languages, up to 200 TV shows including the most popular TV series, interesting documentaries and our very own ACTV channel, over 100 albums and playlists in all musical genres and entertaining and informative audio books and podcasts. Air Canada's enRoute In Flight Entertainment is programmed by Spafax, one of the world's leading custom publishers and providers of in-flight media, with offices in fourteen cities around the world. Spafax is a part of the specialist communications division of WPP. http://enroute.aircanada.com/

About Air Canada
Air Canada is Canada's largest domestic and international airline serving more than 180 destinations on five continents.  Canada's flag carrier is among the 20 largest airlines in the world and in 2013 served more than 35 million customers.  Air Canada provides scheduled passenger service directly to 60 Canadian cities, 49 destinations in the United States and 73 cities in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. Air Canada is a founding member of Star Alliance, the world's most comprehensive air transportation network serving 1,316 airports in 192 countries.  Air Canada rewards its most loyal customers through its top tier recognition program, Altitude, that offers frequent flyers a range of priority travel services, lounge access and upgrades to Executive Class, complementing their membership in Aeroplan, Canada's premier loyalty program, which provides numerous ways to earn and redeem Aeroplan Miles with over 150 travel and retail partners.

Air Canada is the only international network carrier in North America to receive a Four-Star ranking according to independent U.K. research firm Skytrax.  In 2014, Air Canada was ranked for a fifth consecutive year "Best Airline in North America" in a worldwide survey of more than 18 million airline passengers conducted by Skytrax.  According to the 2013 Canadian Business Travel Survey conducted by Ipsos Reid, Air Canada was the preferred airline for more than 80 percent of frequent business travellers in Canada.  In 2013, readers of Global Traveler magazine again voted Air Canada "Best Airline in North America," the readers of Business Traveler voted Air Canada "Best North American Airline for International Travel" and "Best North America Airline Inflight Experience," and the readers of Premier Traveler voted Air Canada "Best North American Airline for International Travel" and "Best Flight Attendants in North America."  For more information on Air Canada visit aircanada.com, follow @AirCanada on Twitter and join Air Canada on Facebook.

SOURCE: Air Canada's enRoute

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