Entries are open for YFF2025
Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 Yorkton Film Festival. Entry deadlines are:
- November 8, 2024 Super Early Bird
- December 12, 2024 Early Bird & Student
- January 30, 2025 Outstanding Colour Grading
- January 31, 2025 All remaining categories
Short documentary Evelyn is YFF2024 Best of Festival
Evelyn looks at the life of Evelyn Christopher, a 94-year-old woman who still grows enough food to give away to her neighbours. She is one of the last of her kind, and with her goes a way of being in the world: dirt under your fingernails, chores every morning at dawn, knowing just how to grow a turnip, stacking every stitch of firewood for the lean winter months.
The film won the Best of Festival Golden Sheaf award at the Yorkton Film Festival May 25, 2024.
Evelyn, a short documentary, enters the world of the wise and wry human that is Evelyn Christopher and offers a little window into what we have lost with all our rushing around. It was directed by Millefiore Clarkes and Davy Weale.
The film also won in the Short Subject Non-Fiction category.
The Ruth Shaw Best of Saskatchewan award was presented to Flickering Away, a film about the Regina IMAX Theatre and the fated changes about film processes as technology advances. It was directed by Kodiak Reinson, an up-and-coming filmmaker pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Regina.
The awards gala Saturday night marked the conclusion of the 77th anniversary edition of the Yorkton Film Festival, the longest continuously running film festival in North America. A total of 30 Golden Sheaf awards were presented in 29 categories.
77 years of history
The Festival began in 1947 as the Yorkton Film Council. Its mandate was to act as a volunteer distribution agency for the National Film Board (NFB). Jim Lysyshyn, field man for the NFB, suggested a film festival. When the Council rejected his proposal, he came forward with a more audacious proposal – an international festival.
The Council accepted the new idea and organized the first festival in the fall of 1950. Throughout the 1950s, the festival was a huge success with as many as 4,000 people at the screenings, this at a time when the population of Yorkton was only 8,000.
The festival has undergone many changes in its history, but can still claim to be the longest continuous film festival in North America. In its current form the festival continues to be dedicated to the promotion of the best screen-based media content through our annual film festival and Golden Sheaf Awards competition.
In addition to the annual event, the festival is dedicated to the promotion of short video content through our year-round screening and tour outreach programs.
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