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Past guests at the VIFF include:

Percy Adlon
Silvano Agosti
Gila Almagor
Michael Almereyda
Lisandro Alonso
Gianni Amelio
Thom Andersen
Bibi Andersson
Michael Apted
Gregg Araki
Denys Arcand
Ronit Avni
Craig Baldwin
Fairuza Balk
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Brent Bambury
Paul Bartel
Adam Beach
Xavier Beauvois
Shyam Benegal
Bill Bennett
Bruce Beresford
Sergei Bodrov
Bong Joon-Ho
John Boorman
Timothy Bottoms
Manon Briand
Nick Broomfield
Charles Burnett
Gary Burns
Rahul Bose
Ferid Boughedir
Lara-Flynn Boyle
Gary Burns
Jackie Burroughs
Scott Caan
Yves Caumon
Fruit Chan
Jackie Chan
Peter Chan
Michael Chapman
Benoit Charest
Peter Chelsom
Leslie Cheung
Rae Dawn Chong
Vera Chytilova
Joe Clark
Adrienne Clarkson
Jem Cohen
Betty Comden
Pedro Costa
Douglas Coupland
Alex Cox
Paul Cox
Alfonso Cuaron
Jennifer Dale
Geena Davis
James Deardon
Dominique Deruddere
Caleb Deschanel
Kirby Dick
Edward Dmytryk
Jacques Doillon
Amanda Donohoe
Martin Donovan
Stan Douglas
Robert Downey, Sr.

Christopher Doyle
Roger Ebert
Atom Egoyan
Julius Epstein
Josh Evans
Gary Farmer
Peter Farrelly
Connie Field
Colin Firth
Thom Fitzgerald
Marc Forster
Bill Forsyth
Scott Frank
Carl Franklin
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Christophe Gans
Leon Gast
Tony Gatlif
William Gibson
Francois Girard
Lillian Gish
Richard Glatzer
Judith Godreche
Jeff Goldblum
Adolph Green
Bruce Greenwood
John Greyson
Rajko Grlic
Philip Haas
Don Haig
Conrad Hall
Andras Hamori
Marcia Gay Harden
Catherine Hardwicke
Rona Hartner
Rutger Hauer
Tom Hayden
Todd Haynes
Werner Herzog
Thom Hoffman
Mike Hoolboom
Toby Hooper
Hong Sang-Soo
Ann Hui
John Hurt
Timothy Hutton
Dan Ireland
Michael Ironside
Ishii Sogo
Joshua Jackson
Henry Jaglom
Jang Sun-Woo
Norman Jewison
Jia Zhangke
Kent Jones
Geir Hansteen Jorgensen
Isaac Julien
Tom Kalin
Shashi Kapoor
Srdjan Karanovic
Karyn Kusama
Aki Kaurismaki
Nicholas Kazan
Patrick Keiller
Adomir Kenovic
Margot Kidder
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Kim Ki-Duk
Allan King

Kitano Takeshi
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Ellen Kuras
Stanley Kwan
Richard Kwietniowski
Bruce LaBruce
Neil LaBute
Ed Lachman
Christine Lahti
Robert Lantos
Christopher Lee
Jason Lee
Stan Lee
Lee Chang-Dong
Lee Kang-Sheng
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Mike Leigh
Robert Lepage
Tony Leung
Avi Lewis
Doug Liman
Richard Linklater
Ray Liotta
Peter Lynch
Kevin MacDonald
Bill Macgillivray
Daniel McIvor
Kyle Maclachlan
Shirley Maclaine
Guy Maddin
Dusan Makavejev
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Francis Mankiewicz
Ron Mann
Andrea Martin
Marsha Mason
John Maybury
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McDonald
Ross McElwee
Don McKellar
Julio Medem
Deepa Mehta
Peter Mettler
Nicholas Meyer
Ross Meyer
Miike Takashi
Sarah Miles
Trinh T. Mihn-ha
Rohinton Mistry
Michael Moore
Jeanne Moreau
Paul Morrissey
Luc Moullet
Dermot Mulroney
Christopher Munch
Kira Muratova
Nonzee Nimibutr
Christopher Nolan
Emmanuel Salinger
M. Night Shyamalan
Nagasaki Shunichi
Catherine O’Hara
Tommy O’Haver
Sandra Oh
Michael Ontkean
Francois Ozon
Molly Parker
Park Kiyong

Goran Paskaljevic
Pawel Pavlikowski
Alexander Payne
Nicolas Philibert
Park Ki-Yong
Park Kwang-su
Alexander Payne
Maurice Pialat
John Pilger
Abraham Polonsky
Sarah Polley
Lea Pool
Rick Prelinger
Jason Priestley
Vincent Price
Om Puri
David Puttnam
Fons Rademakers
Harold Ramis
Nicolas Roeg
Jan Roelfs
Patricia Rozema
Saul Rubinek
Alan Rudolph
Raul Ruiz
Teresa Russell
John Schlesinger
Daniel Schimd
Jan Schutte
Adrienne Shelley
Martin Short
Bryan Singer
Kevin Smith
Penelope Spheeris
Rod Steiger
Tom Stern
Whit Stillman
Barbara Sukowa
Suzuki Seijun
Robin Swicord
Bela Tarr
Dave Thomas
Scott Thompson
Jennifer Tilley
Robert Towne
Rob Tregenza
Pierre Trudeau
Tsai Ming-liang
Tsukamoto Shinya
Jim Uhls
Christine Vachon
Gus Van Sant
Max Von Sydow
Margarethe Von Trotta
Paul Verhoeven
Michael Verhoeven
Sacha Vierney
Denis Villeneuve
Jeff Wall
Mary Walsh
Wang Chao
George Wendt
Barbara Williams
Peter Wintonick
Edward Yang
Michael York
Zhang Yuan

Past guests at the Forum include:

Milo Addica, Writer, Monster’s Ball
Laurence Andries, Writer, 6 Feet Under
Rene Balcer, Writer, Law and Order
Bruce Beresford, Director, Driving Miss Daisy
Albert Berger, Producer, Cold Mountain
Nick Broomfield, Director, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Michael Chapman, Cinematographer, Raging Bull
Benoit Charest, Composer, Triplets of Belleville
James Deardon, Screenwriter, Fatal Attraction
Atom Egoyan, Director, Where The Truth Lies
Peter Farrelly, Director, There’s Something About Mary
Marc Forster, director, Finding Neverland
Dennis Gassner, Production Designer, Bugsy
Leon Gast, Director, When We Were Kings
Richard Goodwin, Producer, A Passage to India
Conrad Hall, Cinematographer, American Beauty
Catherine Hardwicke, Director, Lords of Dogtown
Toby Hooper, Director, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Al Jean, Producer, The Simpsons
Nicholas Kazan, Screenwriter, Reversal of Fortune
Rolf Kent, Composer, Kate and Leopold
Ellen Kuras, Cinematographer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Karyn Kusama, Director, Girlfight
Neil LaBute Writer/director/playright, The Shape of Things
Ed Lachman, Cinematographer, Far From Heaven

Christopher Lee, Producer, Earth: Final Fantasy
Stan Lee, Super Hero!
Peter Lefcourt, Creator, Beggars and Choosers
Doug Liman director, The Bourne Supremacy
Ray Liotta, Actor
Michael MacLennan, Writer, Queer as Folk
Tristram Miall, Producer, Strictly Ballroom
Michael Moore, Director, Fahreinheit, 9/11
Christopher Nolan, Director, Memento
Sandra Oh, Actor, Sideways
Michael Oates Palmer, Writer, The West Wing
Jeannine Oppewall, Production Designer, LA Confidential
Alexander Payne, Director, Sideways
Nik Powell, Producer, The Crying Game
Jan Roelfs, Production Designer, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Lover
Gus Van Sant, Director, Good Will Hunting
Bryan Singer, Director, X-Men
Penelope Spheeris, Director, Wayne’s World
Tom Stern, Cinematographer, Mystic River
Robin Swicord, Writer, Little Women
Jim Taylor, Writer, Sideways
Robert Towne, Writer, Chinatown
Jim Uhls, Writer, Fight Club
Jimmy White, Screenwriter, Ray