Windsor International Film Festival opens, features 65 films

The 9th annual Windsor International Film Festival opened Tuesday night.

What started with just 1,000 attendees screening 20 films over three days now will feature 65 films over six days.

There will be 14 Canadian films, including four from Windsor.

"I've seen a couple [movies] already but there's a bunch of really good ones I have yet to see and I've penciled them into my calendar so hopefully i can make it," said movie goer Celso Oliveira. "Twenty might be ambitious, but we'll see.

Included in the four from Windsor is a documentary about Patsy Noonan, a lifetime Windsorsite, feminist and activist.

"It's about Windsor. I'm about Windsor. So I'm bragging," Noonan said. "I'm very proud of Windsor. There's something about this community that fires us up."

Film maker Kim Nelson called it a "walk though Windsor's history ... through Pat Noonan's biography."

"I think it's a really interesting story for all of Windsor," Nelson said.

Vincent Georgie, the marketing director for the festival, said Windsor has always had an appetite for films.

"We haven't tapped into it, and that's what WIFF has been tapping into," he said. "That's why we're at where we're at. It's because people are like, 'I want to see great movies.'"