about viff l Awards
Beginning in 1988 when the VIFF gave out its first "Most Popular Film" prize to Some Girls, the Festival has offered a number of awards, both adjudicated and voted on by you, the audience, to deserving films. These awards are:
Adjudicated Awards
VIFF Nonfiction Feature Award
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An international jury will choose the winner of VIFF's Nonfiction Feature Award, the 17th year for this award. Selected films are eligible for this prestigious award; watch for more information. |
The award went to the Mexican documentary BORN WITHOUT directed by the late Eva Norvind. Special Mention was given Canada’s FIERCE LIGHT: WHEN SPIRIT MEETS ACTION directed by Velcrow Ripper. The jury included Dimitri Eipides, film critic, veteran film programmer and founder/director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival; Stan Fox, a director, producer and educator and director of our predecessor Vancouver Film Festival during the 1960s; and Melanie Friesen, producer and presenter of the monthly Cinema Salon at the Vancouver International Film Centre and former VIFF Forum producer. The jury said, "BORN WITHOUT won the Nonfiction Feature Award for challenging our perceptions on being disabled through the life of one extraordinary man propelled by the love of family to live life to the fullest.” The jury chose FIERCE LIGHT for special mention “for its power to involve and inspire us with a personal journey that combines spiritual beliefs with relevant social action”. Fourteen features were in competition. Dimitri Eipides presented the award.
The nominees were:
- Addicted to Plastic! The Rise and Demise of a Modern Miracle (dir. Ian Connacher, Canada)
- Apology of an Economic Hitman (dir. Stelios Koiloglou, Greece)
- Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi (dirs. Quique Cruz, Marilyn Mulford, USA)
- The Atom Smashers (dirs. Clayton Brown, Monica Long Ross, USA)
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars (dir. Sam Bozzo, USA/Canada)
- Born Without (dir. Eva Norvind, Mexico)
- California Company Town (dir. Lee Anne Schmitt, USA)
- The Dancing Forest (dir. Brice Lainé, UK)
- Dancing with Time (dir. Trevor Peters, Germany)
- Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action (dir. Velcrow Ripper, Canada)
- The Halfmoon Files (dir. Philip Scheffner, Germany)
- The Limits of What We Know (dir. Amy Bodman, Canada)
- The Longwang Chronicles (dir. Li Yifan, China)
- Suivre Catherine (dir. Jeanne Crépeau, Canada)
Click here to read about the jury for this award.
Audience Awards
Click here to see a full list of VIFF awards from 1988 to 2007. |
