New free public screenings added to Vancouver and Montreal, along with Toronto, $5,000 prize for Best Short Film

TORONTO, April 19, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Air Canada is pleased to invite Canadian film students and emerging filmmakers to enter its sixth annual short film festival. Selected films will be broadcast on Air Canada's personal in-flight seatback entertainment system as part of its Canadian Movie programming viewed by millions of Air Canada customers around the world.

In addition, a free public screening of the top films will be held in Vancouver, Montreal as well as in Toronto, where an awards celebration will follow to honour the winners. All screenings will take place in November.

The winner of Best Short Film will receive a $5,000 cash prize courtesy of presenting sponsor Cineplex Entertainment plus an all-inclusive Air Canada trip for two to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France. Achievement in Direction, Achievement in Cinematography, and Achievement in Animation award winners will also be going to the festival in France courtesy of Air Canada.

Winning films are selected by an esteemed jury, which will be announced this summer. Past jury members have included Jean-Marc Vallée, Atom Egoyan, Denis Villeneuve, Donald Sutherland, Molly Parker, Rémy Girard, Alan Cumming and Don Carmody, among many others.

To download an entry form and view full contest rules and regulations, please visit www.enroutefilm.com. Submissions will be accepted until Thursday, May 31.

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About Air Canada's enRoute Magazine:
Air Canada's enRoute Magazine is published by Spafax, one of the world's leading custom publishers and providers of in-flight media, with offices in eight cities around the world. Spafax is a part of the specialist communications division of WPP. http://enroute.aircanada.com/

About Air Canada:
In 2011, Air Canada was ranked "Best International Airline in North America," the second consecutive year Air Canada has achieved top honours in the annual worldwide survey of 18.8 million air travelers conducted by Skytrax.

Air Canada is Canada's largest domestic and international airline serving more than 180 destinations on five continents.  Canada's flag carrier is the 15th largest commercial airline in the world and in 2011 served more than 33 million customers.  Air Canada provides scheduled passenger service directly to 60 Canadian cities, 57 destinations in the United States and 63 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 1,290 destinations in 189 countries. In 2011, Air Canada was ranked Best International Airline in North America in a worldwide survey of more than 18 million airline passengers conducted by independent research firm Skytrax.

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