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The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
I have spent many days on a cloudy Vancouver film set; dragging heavy cases down the back alleys, anxiously watching loaded trucks and crew busily…
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VIFF MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
“Many mainstream festivals around the world tend to overrepresent white male filmmakers and it was really important for us to not do that.”
Under Review
True North Shorts: Various Positions
If I were to be so bold as to characterize recurring tropes in Canadian cinema, some that come to mind include a suspicion of stable narratives, ironic sensibilities and an attention to intimacy.
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True North Shorts: Escape Routes
One of the most important aspects of VIFF is the opportunity for festival-goers to not only see how Canadian cinema is received internationally, but to see who will be defining Canadian cinema in the future.
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SEAN DEVLIN’S WHEN THE STORM FADES
“Every climate change film I’ve seen is so bogged down with overwhelming statistics and this picture of a massive problem. I wanted to bring that down to a human scale, to a family scale, that I think people can feel some resonance with.”
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Murky Colors
“The film, Murky Colors, is based on a made-for-hollywood spy novel by Menjin Wei, Wei’s father. It is not, by any measure, a conventional adaptation, however, it begins to chart the poetics of one.”
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R2R INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR YOUTH
“Young people are not tuning out. They want to contribute, they want to be engaged, they want to have themselves heard. They just might not know how to do that”
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INTERVIEW WITH LOCAL FILMMAKER KATHLEEN HEPBURN
“I wanted to show what I see as strength, which is the day to day, getting through shit.”
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The Vancouver Short Film Festival | Nov 15 – 16
https://youtu.be/HKZOjJ90-mc The Vancouver Short Film Festival takes place on Friday & Saturday, November 15 – 16, at the Vancity Theatre. The festival celebrates BC-bred filmmaking…