VIFF 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:
• The Air Canada People's Choice Award
For Most Popular International Film
• The Federal Express Award For
Most Popular Canadian Film
• The Citytv Western Canada Feature
Film Award
The Keystone Award (Best Young Western Canadian Director of a
Short Film)
Last year marked the inauguration of this award.
The winner of the Keystone award for Best Young Western Canadian
Director of a Short film, including the $5,000 prize, is
JENNIFER CALVERT for RIVERBURN
(British Columbia). "For its surehanded treatment of the familiar
themes of adolescent alienation and sexual awakening".
Special mention is given for the excellence of
the two animated entries, Steven K.L. Olson's JUDAS'
PANE, and Jason White's OF BURNING
HILLS.
The 2004 Jury for the Keystone Award:
John Griffin - in Montreal and educated in
and around that city and the United Kingdom. He joined the Montreal
Gazette in 1980 and wrote about pop music until the late 80’s,
when he moved to the Gazette film beat and the prospect of a marginally
more credible job to carry through old age. Music remains a passion.
Vincent Le Leurch - since 1997, Vincent Le
Leurch has been a journalist charged with writing about the North
American cinema economy with Le Film Francais, the leading French
trade weekly for cinema professionals. He was the magazine’s
Los Angeles correspondent from August 2002 to December 2003. He
started his career as a rock and television columnist at Telelrama
for six years. He has a degree in journalism from CFPJ in Paris.
Helen Loveridge - worked in a literary agency
prior to embarking on a career in film in the programming department
of the London Film Festival. From 1986, she spend six years as an
international sales agent, during which time she co-founded Fortissimo
Film Sales, one of the most important sources of independent features,
and represented such leading directors as Wong Kar-Wai, Mira Nair,
Hou Hsaio-Hsien and Emir Kusturica. She is currently Director of
the Seattle International Film Festival, which she joined in 2002.
• The National Film Board Award For Best
Documentary Feature
• The Dragons And Tigers Award For Young
Cinema
• The Women In Film And Video Vancouver
Artistic Merit Award
Click here to see a full list of VIFF
awards from 1988 to 2003.
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