The Regina International Film Festival and Awards (RIFFA) is an annual Canadian

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...

, staged in Regina,

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...

. The event founded by John Thimothy was launched in 2015, and concentrated solely on

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

s in its first year.Kerry Benjoe, "Regina to host its own homegrown cinema event". ''

Regina Leader-Post The ''Regina Leader-Post'' is the daily newspaper of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a member of the Postmedia Network. Founding The newspaper was first published as ''The Leader'' in 1883 by Nicholas Flood Davin, soon after Edgar Dewdney, ...

'', September 21, 2015. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/john-thimothy-1.3477404 It was not held in 2016, with its second iteration instead taking place in 2017, but has been staged annually since then and has expanded to include

feature film A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...

s. The festival also presents an annual program of awards to the films deemed to be the best in that year's festival."Regina film festival to feature new gender-neutral trophy and logo"

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Saskatchewan, June 20, 2018.

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* Film festivals in Saskatchewan Festivals in Regina, Saskatchewan Film festivals established in 2015 2015 establishments in Saskatchewan {{Canada-film-festival-stub