In its ten years of existence the Sea to Sky Film Festival has featured more than 120 films and one of the films was the world premier of a film written and directed by former local Mark McConchie.
His film, Blind Date, debuted Friday (Sept. 16) at the festival organized by Adriane Polo.
The film takes a dark look at two people's blind date experience and the story is told in just 11 minutes and 23 seconds.
McConchie's film was one of a dozen short films featured at the festival. People from all over the world created the short films.
The winner in the Best Drama category came all the way from Israel. Uri Shapira created the winning picture. He titled his picture The UD.
Portrait of An Artist as his Muse by Etienne Desrosiers of Montreal won in the documentary category while Stephen H Plitt of Vancouver took top comedy honours with his film called Super-Anon.
"I would like to thank all the volunteers, filmmakers, hosts, judges and participants for their contribution over the 10 years," Polo said after the festival. "We would like to thank all our sponsors and advertising for believing in this festival over the years."
Polo estimates that she and the people who helped her with the festival over the years have screened more than a thousand films from all over the world. More than 50 moviemakers and producers have spoken at the ten [email protected]
