"Heart of Whistler" Pumped to Open Whistler Film Festival


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The following encrypted message, allegedly sent by Ken Hegan, has been intercepted by Voice of Treason's Whistler agent. The message reads:

You are hypnotically invited to the World Premiere of my new motion picture, "Heart of Whistler".

On Thursday November 30th, 2006, this coccyx-tingling short comedy film will help kick off the Whistler Film Festival in front of 1,500 film fans attending the festival's Opening Gala at the Whistler Conference Centre in the ski resort of Whistler, BC, Canada. "Heart of Whistler" will play before the popular snowboarding feature "Let it Ride".

In the same vein as "Run, Lola, Run" and "Insert the Name of Your Favourite Movie Here", "Heart of Whistler" stars Rikki Gagne as a bored waiter who is suddenly thrust into a life-or-death race to deliver a cryogenically frozen heart to a dying transplant patient.

Wade Fennig gives a stirring performance as the brave patient, Peter New plays a lucky janitor, and Fred Keating portrays a brilliant, albeit butter-fingered, cardiothoracic surgeon. This gorgeous film was lensed by ace cinematographers James Liston and Prem Marimuthu, while Hegan strapped on ice skates to shoot the ferociously-paced hockey scenes.

Vancouver director Ken Hegan helmed the short comedy hits "Remission Impossible" (which will also screen at the 2006 Whistler Film Festival on Sat Dec 2) and "William Shatner Lent Me His Hairpiece". Hegan's humour articles have now been published in virtually every magazine on the planet including Rolling Stone, GQ, and Toro magazine, but not Reader's Digest. Not yet anyway.

Hegan shares screenplay credit with John Meadows (screenwriter of "Wisegirls" starring Mira Sorvino), with Meadows doubling as Producer of this ambitious new motion picture. Hegan and Meadows were one of four B.C. filmmaking teams to win the Whistler Film Festival's 'Whistler Stories Short Film Commission Competition'. The resulting film boasts dynamic action sequences that feature helicopter footage, luging, flirting, and kissing.

"Heart of Whistler" will screen again at 5 p.m. on Friday December 1st when the Whistler Film Festival stages a free outdoor screening in Skier's Plaza at the base of the mountain.

Please note: no earnest Canadian arts grants were abused during the making of this film.

In addition to the Whistler Stories grant, this film was supported by many fine organizations including Four Seasons Resort Whistler, Paladin Show Services, Airwaves Sound Design Ltd., Write Shoot Edit Productions, Mainframe Creative Services, Hybrid Films, Omega Aviation, Masters FX, Exile Media, Industry Images, Zeeworks Media, Super Props Rentals, Red Dragon Apparel, Russell Beer, Boston Pizza, Tim Horton's, Meadow Park Sports Centre, Tourism Whistler, and Mothers Against Bad Movies.

To pay for the film's completion, Meadows resorted to mail fraud and Hegan sold a kidney.

For info on festival tickets & accommodations: http://www.whistlerfilmfestival.com

For more details on this hypnotic invitation, contact:

Ken Hegan
Director, Writer, Producer, Man About Town
Vancouver, BC
Email: ken@voiceoftreason.net
Web: http://www.voiceoftreason.net

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Bio for Ken Hegan:
Ken is a billionaire playboy who solves baffling crimes in his spare time. "Heart of Whistler" is his sixth short film as director. A three-time National Magazine Award-winning journalist (Rolling Stone, GQ, Toro, BCBusiness, The Globe & Mail), Hegan’s previous short films include Good Times: Vol. 1 (official selection 2005 Whistler Film Festival) and Farley Mowat Ate My Brother. Hegan is currently producing a comedic documentary TV series in development with Global's TVtropolis network. To promote the Whistler screenings, he will appear on Shaw TV's "Urban Rush" talk show on Monday November 27th.

Bio for John Meadows:
Whistler resident John Meadows premiered his first feature screenplay, Wisegirls, at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Wisegirls stars Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino, pop diva Mariah Carey and was directed by David Anspaugh (Hoosier, Rudy). Most recently, John teamed up with Hybrid Films and Telefilm to develop, Up in the Air, the story of a Canadian athlete who willingly gave up a world championship medal in the name of sportsmanship.

Writer-for-hire assignments have included the Dudley Moore bio pic Dreaming of Dudley in development with Mannix Productions in Sydney Australia, and Stage Fright with Tri-Mark Pictures in Los Angeles. Television credits include several episodes of Guinevere Jones - Season Two - for YTV/Canada and Channel 10 Australia.

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