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Vancouver International Film Festival September 30 - October 15, 2010 |
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VIFF 2010 statistics and award WINNERS |
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Top 25 international and top 10 Canadian films announced |
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(Vancouver, BC – October 29, 2010) - The 29th Vancouver International Film Festival, which concluded its successful 16-day run on October 15, has announced 2010 statistics and further details on films that figured significantly in audience balloting. The 25 most popular international films and 10 most popular Canadian films are announced below, and all juried and audience awards are reiterated for easy reference.
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Admissions: 148,000
Films: 373: 231 feature-length (32 Canadian); 28 mid-length [20-59 mins.] (7 Canadian); 114 shorts (44 Canadian)
Screenings: 598 Public + 33 Media
Countries: 80+
Industry Guests: 600
World Premieres: 15
International Premieres: 25
North American Premieres: 49
Canadian Premieres: 6
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AUDIENCE AWARDS |
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ROGERS PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD  |
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WASTE LAND
(UK/Brazil), directed by Lucy Walker, has won the Rogers People’s Choice Award. This UK/Brazilian coproduction follows renowned artist Vik Muniz into his three-year artistic collaboration with resident recyclers of the world's largest landfill outside of Rio.
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All of the festival’s 373 films – dramas and nonfiction, short, mid- and feature length – were eligible for the Rogers Award, and festival-goers chose the most popular film by rating every film they saw on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). Thor Diakow presented the award on behalf of Rogers.
Many films were extremely popular in both attendance and ballot rating; the next most popular 25 international films are below. Note that Canadian films are listed separately.
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- 12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary, director Zeina Daccache (Lebanon)
- The 4th Revolution - Energy Autonomy, director Carl-A. Fechner (Germany/USA)
- Aftershock, director Feng Xiaogang (China)
- Another Year, director Mike Leigh (UK)
- Biutiful, director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Spain/Mexico)
- Cell 211, director Daniel Monzón (Spain)
- The Desert of Forbidden Art, dirs. Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope (Russia/USA/Uzbekistan)
- For Once in My Life, dirs. Jim Bigham, Mark Moorman (USA)
- The Infidel, director Josh Appignanesi (UK)
- Inside Job, director Charles Ferguson (USA)
- Kawasaki's Rose, director Jan Hrebejk (Czech Republic)
- Made in Dagenham, director Nigel Cole (UK)
- The Man from Nowhere, director Lee Jeong-Beom (South Korea)
- The Man Who Will Come, director Giorgio Diritti (Italy)
- Of Gods and Men, director Xavier Beauvois (France)
- Poetry, director Lee Changdong (South Korea)
- The Red Chapel, director Mads Brügger (Denmark)
- Reverse, director Borys Lankosz (Poland)
- Snow White, director Angelin Preljocaj (France)
- A Somewhat Gentle Man, director Hans Petter Moland (Norway)
- Think Global, Act Rural, director Coline Serreau (France)
- The Tree, director Julie Bertuccelli (Australia/France)
- The Two Escobars, dirs. Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist (Colombia/USA)
- The Ugly Duckling, director Garri Bardin (Russia/France)
- When We Leave, director Feo Aladag (Germany/Turkey)
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VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award  |
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TWO INDIANS TALKING
(Canada/BC) directed by Sara McIntyre, won the VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award. Two Indians Talking is director Sara McIntyre’s original take on the relationship of two first nations cousins. Watch for exploding stereotypes and some great performances by Nathaniel Arcand and Justin Rain. Canadian Images programmer Terry McEvoy announced the award.
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The next 10 most popular Canadian films were: |
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- Amazon Falls, director Katrin Bowen (BC)
- Barney's Version, director Richard J. Lewis (Canada/Italy)
- A Drummer's Dream, director John Walker (Nova Scotia)
- Fathers&Sons, dir Carl Bessai (BC)
- Incendies, director Denis Villeneuve (Quebec)
- Love Shines, director Douglas Arrowsmith (BC)
- Mammalian, director Frank Wolf (BC)
- Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames, director Adam Reid (Ontario)
- Mighty Jerome, director Charles Officer (BC)
- When the Devil Knocks, director Helen Slinger (BC)
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VIFF Most Popular Nonfiction Film Award |
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KINSHASA SYMPHONY
The audience chose Kinshasa Symphony (Germany), directed by Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer for the VIFF most popular Nonfiction Film Award. This German film set in the Democratic Republic of Congo shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world find joy by playing classical music.
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National Film Board of Canada’s Most Popular Canadian Documentary Award |
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LEAVE THEM LAUGHING
Leave Them Laughing (BC) directed by John Zaritsky, won the NFB’s Most Popular Canadian Documentary award and a prize of $2,500 in NFB technical services toward their next film. Leave Them Laughing is director John Zaritsky’s gripping documentary about Carla Zilbersmith’s struggle with the incurable disease, ALS. Zaritsky captures Carla’s candour and her remarkable sense of humour in a profoundly unfunny situation. |
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VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award |
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FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE
(Canada), directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, has won the VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award. Ecologist and scientist David Suzuki serves as veteran filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson's subject in this thorough, deep-reaching account of the Canadian icon's life. Gunnarsson shows how Suzuki's relationship with his father and the family's internment during WWII gave Suzuki a sense that history matters and helped shape his critical thinking as an "outsider." Festival director Alan Franey announced the award.
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ADJUDICATED AWARDS |
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Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema  |
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GOOD MORNING TO THE WORLD
The $10,000 Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema, which is generously supported by donors Brad Birarda and Robert Sali, went to Hirohara Satoru of Japan for Good Morning to the World!. The award is presented to the director of a creative and innovative film from East Asia that has not yet won significant international recognition.
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The distinguished jury was comprised of Mr. Bong Joon Ho, renowned director of films The Host, Mother and a 2000 runner-up in Dragons & Tigers for Barking Dogs Never Bite; Mr. Denis Côté, an award-winning director whose film Curling was screened at VIFF this year; and Mr. Jia Zhangke, leading director of China’s “Sixth Generation”, whose 1998 film Xiao Wu was a Dragons & Tigers winner, and whose I Wish I Knew was screened at VIFF this year. They considered eight films in competition. |
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ET Canada Award for Best Canadian Feature Film  |
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INCENDIES
The ET Canada Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and its $20,000 cash prize goes to Quebec director Denis Villeneuve for Incendies. The winner was selected from eleven films in competition. The jury has chosen to award the prize for the best Canadian feature to a rich, riveting and fearless drama which takes us on an unpredictable journey through the human heart. It is told with confidence, stunning performances and gorgeous cinematography. The winner was selected from eleven films in competition.
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The jury included Andrea Henning, executive director of Arts and Culture for the Province of British Columbia; actor Deborah Kara Unger, the star of David Fincher's The Game, Norman Jewison's Hurricane, David Cronenberg's Crash, and many other films; and educator and award-winning writer, director, producer (My American Cousin, American Boyfriends and Harmony Cats, to name a few), Sandy Wilson. Frank Samson, supervising producer of ET Canada, and jury member Sandy Wilson presented the award on behalf of ET Canada. |
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Honourable Mention for Canadian Feature Film |
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CURLING
An Honourable Mention was announced by the Canadian Images jury for Quebec director Denis Côté’s “daring and unique feature film,” Curling. In making the announcement, Deborah Kara Unger said, “We would like to honour a film that distinguished itself not only in its confidence of vision but its philosophical bravery which has indeed provoked extreme response with its brittle Brechtian architecture and its subtle, unapologetic power (akin to the art of Rothko) in its realization of life beneath the surface of winter.” |
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On behalf of the Canadian Images jury, Ms. Unger announced two inaugural VIFF awards: |
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Best Canadian Actress |
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LUBNA AZABAL, INCENDIES
The Best Canadian Actress award went to Lubna Azabal for “her raw, dignified and fearless portrayal of a woman whose moral compass and courage remained steadfast amidst the brutality of the extreme of the human condition” in Incendies. |
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Best Canadian Actor |
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ALEXANDER GAMMAL, MODRA
Alexander Gammal received the Best Canadian Actor award for ”his transparent vulnerability and heartbreaking authenticity in a performance of emotional maturity that belies that of a first-time actor.” Gammal starred in MODRA, directed by Ontario’s Ingrid Veninger. |
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Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film |
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MOKHTAR
The Canadian Images jury has awarded a $2,000 cash award to director Halima Ouardiri of Quebec for her short film Mokhtar. The competition was open to first-time filmmakers. Jury member Andrea Henning announced the award. |
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Women in Film & Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award |
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APRIL TELEK, AMAZON FALLS
Women in Film & Television Vancouver presented its Artistic Merit Award to April Telek, lead actress in Amazon Falls. WIFTV award committee member Mary Frymire presented the award, which is given annually to a B.C. woman filmmaker or performer of distinction whose work appeared at VIFF this year. Special Jury Mention went to nominee Carla Zilbersmith for her compelling and moving performance in Leave Them Laughing.
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The Vancouver International Film Festival acknowledges the generous support of Telefilm Canada. Major corporate partners are Rogers Communications and Visa Canada. |
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ABOUT VIFF |
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The Vancouver International Film Festival [VIFF] is among the five largest film festivals in North America. A fall fixture on the international film festival calendar, this festival is a microcosm of its home city: cosmopolitan, innovative, friendly, culturally complex and very accessible. The 2010 festival took place September 30 to October 15 and 148,000 people attended more than 639 screenings of 373 films from 80+ countries. Founded in 1982, the festival's mandate is to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world, and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada.
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Vancouver International Film Festival | VIFF 2010 | Same Planet. Different Worlds. |
September 30 - October 15, 2010 | Film Info: 604.683.FILM (3456) | VIFF Office: 604.685.0260
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