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Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 to help revitalize Lower Manhattan in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center. In just five years, Tribeca has become one of the top 10 festivals in the world (The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide).
The Tribeca Film Festival online: http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tff.html

Out of 2,300 short film submissions this year, the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival selected 62 shorts for its April 25-May 6 run. Six Canadian shorts were selected, and Heart of Whistler is the lone film from British Columbia. Heart of Whistler will make its U.S. Premiere at Tribeca on Thursday April 26th, 2007.
The complete short film lineup: http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tff07-shorts-release.html

Heart of Whistler stars Rikki Gagne as a waiter who races through the Whistler resort to deliver a frozen heart to a dying transplant patient (Wade Fennig). The film, which features astonishing stunts and helicopter photography, is part of Tribeca’s ‘Mood Enhancer’ lineup, billed as “a group of unusual and very imaginative short films.” Other shorts feature Zooey Deschanel, Bob Geldof, Mariel Hemingway, and Piper Perabo, and directing debuts from actors Julia Stiles and Julie Delpy.

Co-writer/producer John Meadows will join Hegan for their film’s April 26th premiere in the AMC Theater on 34th Street in Manhattan. Last summer, Meadows and Hegan were one of four B.C. teams to win the Whistler Film Festival's 'Whistler Stories Short Film Commission Competition'. Hegan describes their resulting 7-minute film as “an action/comedy in the vein of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Run, Lola, Run, and Yentl."

For interviews or stills, please contact Ken Hegan directly at:
Voice of Treason Productions Inc.
ken@voiceoftreason.net

To view the complete Tribeca Film Festival lineup, visit:
http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/title-detail.php

BIO – Ken Hegan
Ken Hegan is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist read by millions in Rolling Stone, GQ, and The Globe & Mail. Ken has received 25+ awards and nominations, including three gold National Magazine Awards for Best Humour Article and two Gemini Award nominations for TV writing & directing. Hegan is currently living in Toronto where he is writing/producing 13 episodes of TV MADE ME DO IT, a Proper Television production for the CanWest MediaWorks’s new channel, TVTropolis.

This alongside his impressive body of original film work:
2006
Director/Co-writer “Heart of Whistler” – (7 min)

2006
Director/Writer “Remission Impossible”- (5 min) World Premiere - Crazy 8s Short Film Competition; L.A. International Short Film Festival; Best Screenplay – Vancouver Comedy Festival

2005
Director/Writer “Good Times (Vol. 1)” – (2 min) Best Short Comedy – Lake County Film Festival

2002
Director/Writer “Revolv-a-Date – (6 min) Reel Fast 48-Hour Film Festival

1996
Director/Writer “William Shatner Lent Me His Hairpiece” – (12 min), Comedy Network, Space, Knowledge Network

1995
Director/Writer “Farley Mowat Ate My Brother” – (8 min) CBC TV, Best Short Film, New York Underground Film Festival

BIO - John Meadows
John Meadows premiered his first feature screenplay, Wisegirls, at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Wisegirls stars Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino and 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.

SCREENING TIMES @ THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

Heart of Whistler screens five times:

Thursday, April 26, 10:45 pm - AMC 34th Street
Friday, April 27, 10:30 pm - Regal Cinemas Battery Park
Sunday, April 29, 6:30 pm - AMC Village
Thursday, May 3, 11:30 pm, Tribeca Cinemas
Friday, May 4, 11:30 pm, AMC Kips Bay

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