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List of Vancouver International Film Festival award winners

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The following is a list of Vancouver International Film Festival award winners.

Award winners by year

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2002

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2003

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2004

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2005

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2006

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2007

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2008

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2009

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  • Canwest Award for Best Canadian Feature Film I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) directed by Xavier Dolan
  • Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film: The Last Act directed by Jan Binsse and David Tougas
  • Women in Film & Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award: 65 Redroses directed and produced by Nimisha Mukerji and Gillian Lowry
  • Rogers People's Choice Award: Soundtrack for a Revolution directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman
  • documentary Audience Award for Most Popular Nonfiction Film: Facing Ali directed by Pete McCormack
  • VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award: 65 Redroses by Nimisha Mukerji & Philip Lyall
  • National Film Board's Most Popular Canadian Documentary Award: 65 Redroses by Nimisha Mukerji & Philip Lyall
  • VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award: At the Edge of the World directed by Dan Stone
  • Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema: Eighteen directed by Jang Kun-jae[2]

2010

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2011

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2012

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  • Award for Best Canadian Feature Film ($10,000 prize) – Blackbird, Jason Buxton (Canada)
  • Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema, presented by Brad Birarda ($5,000 prize) – Emperor Visits The Hell (Tang Huang You Difu), Li Luo (China)
  • Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film Award ($2,000 prize) – Float, Juan Riedinger (Canada)
  • Rogers People's Choice Award – The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
  • VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award – Becoming Redwood, Jesse James Miller (Canada)
  • NFB Most Popular Canadian Documentary Award – Blood Relative, Nimisha Mukerji (Canada)
  • VIFF Most Popular International Documentary Film Award – Nuala, Patrick Farrelly and Kate O'Callaghan (Ireland)
  • VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award – Revolution, Rob Stewart (Canada)
  • VIFF Most Popular International First Feature Award – I, Anna, Barnaby Southcombe (UK)
  • Women in Film & Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award: Liverpool directed and written by Manon Briand

2013

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2014

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2015

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The 34th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 24 to October 9, 2015. The VIFF Industry Conference – the premier media conference in Western Canada – runs from September 30 to October 3, 2015.

Audience Awards
Juried Awards

2016

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The 35th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 29 to October 14, 2016.[4]

2017

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The 36th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 28 to October 13, 2017[5]

BC Spotlight Awards

Canadian Awards

Impact Awards

  • VIFF Impact Award – BLUE, Karina Holden

Audience Awards

  • Super Channel People's Choice Award – Indian Horse, Stephen Campanelli
  • VIFF Most Popular International Feature – Loving Vincent, Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (Poland, UK)
  • VIFF Most Popular International Documentary – Faces Places, Agnès Varda, JR (France)
  • VIFF Most Popular Canadian Documentary – Shut Up and Say Something, Melanie Wood
  • #mustseebc – Shut Up and Say Something, Melanie Wood

2018

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The 37th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 27 to October 12, 2018.

BC Spotlight Awards

Canadian Awards

Impact Awards

Audience Awards

  • Super Channel People's Choice Award – Finding Big Country by Kathleen Jayme
  • VIFF Most Popular International Feature – Shoplifters by Kore-eda Hirokazu
  • VIFF Most Popular International Documentary – Bathtubs Over Broadway by Dava Whisenant
  • VIFF Most Popular Canadian Feature – Edge of the Knife by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown
  • #mustseebc – Finding Big Country, Kathleen Jayme

Sustainable Production Excellence Awards

  • Sustainable Production Impact - X-Files, season 11
  • Sustainable Production Champion - Keep it Green Recycling (Kelsey Evans); Portable Electric (Mark Rabin); Clara George; Ronny Fritsch

2019

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The 38th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 26 to October 11, 2019.[6]

BC Spotlight Awards

Canadian Awards

Impact Awards

Audience Awards

2020

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The 39th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 24 to October 7, 2020.[8]

BC Spotlight Awards

Canadian Awards

International Awards

VIFF Immersed Awards

  • Best in Cinematic Live-Action — Kowloon Forest by Alexey Marfin
  • Best in Documentary — By the Waters of Babylon by Kristen Lauth Shaeffer and Andrew Halasz
  • Best in Animation — The Book of Distance by Randall Okita
  • Honorable Mention in Animation — In the Land of Flabby Schnook by Francis Gélinas
  • Audience Award — Ecosphere: Raja Ampat by Joseph Purdam

VIFF Immersed Volumetric Market (Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios Special Prize)

2021

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The 40th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from October 1 to October 11, 2021.[9][10]

BC Spotlight Awards

Canadian Awards

International Awards

  • Impact Award — Blue Box (Michal Weits)
  • Rob Steward Eco Warrior Award — Coextinction (Gloria Pancrazi, Elena Jean)

VIFF Immersed Awards

  • Cinematic Live Action — Symphony (Igor Cortadellas)
  • Documentary — Inside COVID19 (Gary Yost, Adam Loften)
  • Augmented Reality — Mission to Mars AR (Piotr Baczyński, Bartosz Rosłoński)
  • Animation — Beat (Keisuke Itoh)
  • VeeR Audience Award — Red Eyes (Sngmoo Lee)
  • XR Market Grant — Memory Place (Zeynep Abes)

Award winners by award

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Best Canadian Film

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Most Popular Canadian Film

Vancity People's Choice Award for Most Popular Canadian Film

VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award

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Most Popular International Film

Rogers People's Choice Award for Most Popular International Film

VIFF Most Popular International First Feature Award

References

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  1. ^ "National Film Board of Canada".
  2. ^ S. Korean film captures $10,000 Vancouver fest prize – CBC News retrieved October 11, 2009
  3. ^ "Brooklyn Wins VIFF Rogers People's Choice Award" (Press release). Jive Communications. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  4. ^ "Award Winners + Highlights". VIFF. October 9, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  5. ^ "2017 Awards + Competitions". VIFF. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  6. ^ "VIFF 2019 BC Spotlight Gala Award Winners". archive.viff.org. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  7. ^ a b "Vancouver International Film Festival (2019)". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  8. ^ "2020 Awards and Competitions". www.viff.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  9. ^ Dana Gee (September 9, 2021). "VIFF back in theatres for 40th anniversary festival". The Province. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  10. ^ "Awards". www.viff.org. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2021-10-23.