Welcome to the Vancouver International Film Festival SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 15 2010
Award WINNERS AnnoUCED
The 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival has wrapped its 16-day run.
The winners of three juried awards and five audience awards were announced on Friday October 16; a fourth juried award was announced previously.
JURIED AWARDS
Canwest Award for Best Canadian Feature Film
The jury for the Canadian Images program awarded the inaugural Canwest Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and its $20,000 cash prize to director Xavier Dolan of Montreal for I KILLED MY MOTHER (J'ai tué ma mere).
Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema
The $10,000 Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema, which is generously supported by donors by Brad Birarda and Robert Sali, went to JANG Kun-Jae of South Korea for EIGHTEEN.
Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film
The Canadian Images jury has awarded a $2,000 cash award to directors Jan Binsse and David Tougas of Montreal for their film THE LAST ACT (Le dernier acte).
Women in Film & Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award
Women in Film & Television Vancouver presented its Artistic Merit Award to Nimisha Mukerji, co-director, producer and editor and Gillian Lowry, co-producer, of 65_REDROSES.
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Rogers People's Choice Award
The USA film SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION, directed by Bill Guttentag and
Dan Sturman, has won the Rogers People's Choice Award.
documentary Audience Award for Most Popular Nonfiction Film
The audience chose the Canadian film FACING ALIfor the second annual documentary Audience Award for most popular nonfiction film. Directed by Pete McCormack.
VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award
Nimisha Mukerji & Philip Lyall's 65_REDROSES has won the VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award.
National Film Board's Most Popular Canadian Documentary Award
65_REDROSES, by filmmaker Nimisha Mukerji & Philip Lyall won the prize of $2,500 in NFB technical services towards his next film.
VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award
At the Edge of the World, a documentary directed by Dan Stone has won the VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award.
Missed a VIFF favourite, just announced our VIFF Repeats series at the Vancity Theatre:
Critically acclaimed as "an unspoiled celebration of world cinema," VIFF presents approximately 575 screenings of 377 films from over 70 countries. Our team of expert programmers screen thousands of films and travel to some of the biggest festivals to bring Vancouver the best of world cinema. VIFF SNAPSHOT
Both in terms of admissions and number of films screened (142,425 and 360 respectively in 2008) VIFF is among the five largest film festivals in North America. We screen films from over 70 countries on 10 screens. The international line-up includes, in addition to many undiscovered gems, the pick of the world's top film fests.
Three main programming platforms make our festival unique: we screen the largest selection of East Asian films outside of that region, we are one of the biggest showcases of Canadian film in the world and we have a large and important nonfiction program (over one third of films last year were docs).
Attracting a large, attentive and enthusiastic audience of film lovers, the festival remains accessible, friendly and culturally diverse. As the critics say, VIFF is very much a festival "designed for the benefit of people who love films and people who make them."
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