Today tickets go on sale for VIFF 39, our first online edition--safely and securely geared for home consumption, and delivered from our VIFF Connect platform to your screens. Behind the scenes, we’re working to ensure that this festival enables equity and access for filmmakers, curators, and audiences from marginalized and underrepresented communities. Our online festival will be the most accessible in our history--the first to span the length and breadth of the province.

This year at VIFF, the focus has been on rethinking our role in the community. We've been looking at what we do best and thinking about how we can do it better; our goal is to embed our values in concrete action. It is in this spirit of innovation and connection that we unveil the reimagined VIFF Centre, home to our beloved Vancity Theatre and now supplemented with a dazzling new lobby, a 41-seat Studio Theatre flex space, a New Media Lab, and an Education Suite.

The new VIFF Centre is a manifestation of our 2020 vision. We’ll still bring you the best in Canadian and international cinema: art films, documentaries, and curated events in partnership with organizations who share our belief in film as a tool to explore challenging subjects collectively. But we are now a truly multifaceted facility:

• The Studio Theatre allows us to extend our programming range, service local filmmakers at low-to-no cost, and present talks and lectures to community groups and non-profits.
• Cutting-edge VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) will be showcased in our New Media Lab.
• The Education Suite will be a forum for workshops, creative development sessions, production meetings, school classes, interviews, and auditions.
• Our new design, and our professionally staffed concession, will cater to patrons who’d like to savour a glass of BC wine, a local craft beer, or a soft drink along with their movie snacks.
• Our VIFF Connect streaming platform will remain open, bringing VIFF programming and educational opportunities to your living room, as well as to virtual classrooms across BC.

This is our vision for the future. We believe the VIFF Centre will prove a fluid and flexible lynchpin for the film community in our city and beyond.

If you share our vision and our values please consider taking a subscription or making a gift to support the next step in this journey, because culture is always a work in progress.

The Lochmaddy Foundation will match any donations received before closing night dollar for dollar, up to $15,000, and all gifts of $25 and above are fully tax-deductible.

We look forward to welcoming you back to our home in the next few weeks.