Connecting Audiences with Filmmakers at the Willson Oakville Film Festival

You’re seated in the theatre as the end credits role. If this were an ordinary movie screening, it would be your cue to leave.

But you’re at the Willson Oakville Film Festival, so you watch the lights come up as an amiable host introduces the filmmakers. You see one or perhaps up to four or five people – usually the director, cast, producer, or other collaborators, troop to the front of the theatre where they converse with the audience. They answer questions, share their creative processes, and behind-the-scenes stories.

Suddenly you get intimate insights into the creative experience and you gain new understandings about the film.

Filmmaker Q & A

Filmmaker question and answer sessions – or Q & A for short – is what makes festivals so special. For filmmakers, speaking with an appreciative audience is one of the rewards in the long, hard journey of making a film. For audiences, speaking with filmmakers connects us to the people behind the films. At the Oakville Film Festival, we’re big enough to bring you interesting filmmakers and small enough to give you informal personal access. We look forward to bringing you exciting filmmaker conversations at our upcoming Festival, June 24 – 26, 2016.