FILMS | Nonfiction Features
An amazing one-third of the Vancouver International Film Festival is nonfiction; fully 100 films will be presented that together will draw an audience of some 50,000 people.
Whether the subject is arts, politics or the intensely personal, nonfiction cinema is made from the heart and has attained a general standard of excellence that evades all but the cream of the fiction crop. That's why, since 1992, the VIFF has given the most cinematic of documentary and essay films front-and-centre status, and it is also why the VIFF is now internationally recognized as one of the world's largest and most successful showcases of nonfiction cinema in a general festival context. These films are not only enlightening and entertaining; they have the power to renew one's hope in the possibility of positive change in our world.
Nonfiction Film Awards
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The most popular nonfiction film receives the documentary Audience Award. Rate every doc you see and you could win two Gold Passes to next year's festival. Look for ballots in the lobby at all theatres. One entry per person per film.
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The director of the audience's favourite Canadian documentary receives $2,500 in services from the National Film Board of Canada. |
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An international jury will choose the winner of VIFF's Nonfiction Feature Award, the 17th year for this award. Selected films are eligible for this prestigious award. |
This year our esteemed jury will choose between the following 14 features to determine the 2008 winner of the VIFF Nonfiction Feature Award. Jury members will be looking for relevance, innovation and engagement, both from the point of view of subject and style. The winner (and possible runners-up) will be announced at the Closing Gala Awards Presentation on Friday, October 10.
The nominees are:
- Addicted to Plastic! The Rise and Demise of a Modern Miracle (dir. Ian Connacher, Canada)
- Apology of an Economic Hitman (dir. Stelios Koiloglou, Greece)
- Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi (dirs. Quique Cruz, Marilyn Mulford, USA)
- The Atom Smashers (dirs. Clayton Brown, Monica Long Ross, USA)
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars (dir. Sam Bozzo, USA/Canada)
- Born Without (dir. Eva Norvind, Mexico)
- California Company Town (dir. Lee Anne Schmitt, USA)
- The Dancing Forest (dir. Brice Lainé, UK)
- Dancing with Time (dir. Trevor Peters, Germany)
- Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action (dir. Velcrow Ripper, Canada)
- The Halfmoon Files (dir. Philip Scheffner, Germany)
- The Limits of What We Know (dir. Amy Bodman, Canada)
- The Longwang Chronicles (dir. Li Yifan, China)
- Suivre Catherine (dir. Jeanne Crépeau, Canada)
Click here to read about the jury for this award. |
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