about viff l 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:
Adjudicated Awards
Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema,
sponsored by Brad Birarda ($10,000)
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For the fifteenth year running, the Festival is pleased to offer the Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema to a new director from the Asia-Pacific region. It is given to a creative and innovative film, made early in the director's career, which has not yet won significant international recognition. Once again, we're hugely grateful to Brad Birarda for continuing to sponsor this award, and the series as a whole.
Click here to read about the jury for this award. |
Our past winners have been: Furumaya Tomoyuki for This Window is Yours (1994), Kore-eda Hirokazu for Maboroshi (1995), ex-aequo Hong Sang-Soo for The Day a Pig Fell into the Well and Zhang Ming for Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996), Lee Chang-Dong for Green Fish (1997), Jia Zhangke for Xiao Wu (1998), Hayakawa Wataru for 7/25 (1999), Wisit Sasanatieng for Tears of the Black Tiger (2000), Hsiao Ya-Chuan for Mirror Image (2001), Andrew Cheng for Shanghai Panic (2002), Diao Yinan for Uniform (2003), Takahashi Izumi for The Soup, One Morning (2004), Liu Jiayin for Oxhide (2005), John Torres for Todo Todo Teros (2006) and ex-aequo Robin Weng for Fujian Blue and Zhang Yuedong for Mid-Afternoon Barks (2007). The list of filmmakers awarded Special Mentions by our juries is almost equally distinguished.
This year's jury will consider a line-up of eight films, listed below. The prize - which will include a $10,000 award to the director - was be announced before the 7:00 p.m. screening of Hansel and Gretel in Granville 7 on Thursday, October 2.
The nominees were:
The jury has issued the following statement:
“The eight films we watched were not all perfect, and probably none of them was a masterpiece. But we enjoyed all of them in different ways, and found in each of them signs of great energy and talent.”
We want to single out two particularly strong films for Special Mentions:
German + Rain by Ms YOKOHAMA Satoko from Japan.
The main character is disturbing, yet unexpectedly fascinating. Taken with naturalistic performances from the entire cast, this is a strangely moving film.
And Sweet Food City by GAO Wendong from China.
For its use of an incredible location, and the very clever way it combines elements of documentary with fiction.
This year's Dragons and Tigers Award goes to:
Perfect Life by Ms Emily TANG from Hong Kong/China.
For the way it captures the harshness of Chinese reality through its fictional protagonist, and for the subtlety of its wonderfully free storytelling.”
Perfect Life will be screened again on Friday, October 3 at 3:45pm at Vancity Theatre.
Audience Awards
Click here to see a full list of VIFF awards from 1988 to 2007. |
