Whistler Film Festival Whistler Film Festival The Whistler Film Festival (WFF) is an annual film festival held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 2001, the festival is held the first weekend of December and includes juried competitive sections, the Borsos Awards, and the Pandora Audience Award. A conference for the Canadian film industry, known as the Whistler Summit, is organised in connection with the film festival. As of 2015, the Whistler Film Festival bills itself as "Canada's coolest film festival" and has been increasingly attracting more distributors and sales agents. The 2015 festival presented the Canadian premiere of "Carol" and the world
Melanesian whistler Melanesian whistler The Melanesian whistler or Vanuatu whistler ("Pachycephala chlorura") is a species of passerine bird in the whistler family Pachycephalidae. It is found on the Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, and Vanikoro in the far south-eastern Solomons. Until 2014, the Melanesian whistler was considered conspecific with the New Caledonian whistler. Formerly, it has also been treated as a subspecies of the golden whistler. Four subspecies are recognized: The species is a medium sized whistler, typically around in length and weighing , though some subspecies are larger. In the nominate subspecies the male has a dark slate-grey crown, face and nape, a