Vancouver International Film Festival

The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia for two weeks in late September and early October. The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society, a provincially registered non-profit, and federally registered charitable organization.

Vancouver International Film Festival + VIFF Year Round at the Vancouver International Film Centre
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Founded1958
Hosted byGreater Vancouver International Film Festival Society
Festival dateSeptember 26 – October 11, 2019
LanguageInternational
Websitehttp://www.viff.org/
Opened in 2005, the Vancouver International Film Centre is the main office of the festival and also one of its venues.

Both in terms of admissions, and number of films screened, (133,000 and 324 respectively in 2016),[1] VIFF is among the five largest film festivals in North America. The festival screens films annually from approximately 73 countries on 10 screens.

The festival has three main programming platforms: East Asian film,[2] Canadian film, and nonfiction films. Besides films from around the world, VIFF also includes talks, workshops, performances and other special events related to cinema.

History

The festival was first launched in 1958,[3] but faced financial and organizational difficulties in the late 1960s[4] and was discontinued after the 1969 festival. The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society was incorporated in the early 1980s and relaunched the festival in its current form in 1982.[5]

Venues

The relaunched festival was staged entirely at the city's independent Ridge Theatre, although the festival has since expanded into a multivenue event headquartered at the Vancouver International Film Centre (VIFC).

The Vancity Theatre inside the VIFC hosts VIFF's year-round programming, workshops, special events and collaborates with local organizations for special events.[6]

Awards
Main article: List of Vancouver International Film Festival award winners

Festival awards (juried and audience-voted):

  • Most Popular International Film
  • National Film Board Award for Best Documentary
  • Special Jury Prize
  • Kyoto Planet "Climate for Change" Award
  • Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema
  • Citytv Western Canadian Feature Film Award
  • Women In Film and Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award
  • Rogers People's Choice Award
  • International Film Guide Inspiration Award
  • documentary Audience Award
  • VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award
  • VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award
  • Super Channel People's Choice Award
  • Ignite Award 
  • VIFF IMPACT Award

BC Spotlight Awards

  • Sea to Sky Award 
  • Best BC Film Award 
  • BC Emerging Filmmaker Award 

Canadian Awards

  • Best Canadian Film 
  • Emerging Canadian Director 
  • Best Canadian Documentary 
  • Best BC Short Film 
  • Best Canadian Short Film
  • Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film 

Impact Awards

  • VIFF Impact Award 

Audience Awards

  • Super Channel People's Choice Award
  • VIFF Most Popular International Feature 
  • VIFF Most Popular International Documentary
  • VIFF Most Popular Canadian Documentary 
  • #mustseebc 

Sustainable Production Excellence Awards

  • Sustainable Production Impact 
  • Sustainable Production Champion 

References
  1. "VIFF". Withoutabox. Withoutabox. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. "VIFF". Globe &MAil. Globe & Mail. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. "Festival's Movies Open Run Monday". Vancouver Sun, August 1, 1958.
  4. "The New Concept of VIFF". The Province, June 16, 1969.
  5. "Independent Ridge plans 40-feature film festival". The Province, May 3, 1982.
  6. "VIFF at Vancity Theatre". web.archive.org. 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
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