The Whistler Film Festival is set to open on Wednesday and will showcase a record number of movies directed by women. The festival will screen 14 feature films and 16 short films directed by women, making up approximately 30 per cent of the event's programming. That will be the highest percentage of female-produced work to screen at the festival to date, the Whistler Film Festival said in a press release. "What the Whistler Film Festival is doing is a fantastic thing by evening the playing field, it's a great thing to showcase the accomplishments of female filmmakers," she told CBC host of The Early Edition Rick Cluff. That is slowly changing though, she said, and she is hopeful about the recent attention on the challenges women face in the film industry.

Source: CBC News November 29, 2017 16:41 UTC