Meet the Creative Minds Shifting Cinema and Culture
VIFF Industry is a series of curated conversations, master classes, case studies and panels featured during our festival for accredited filmmakers and industry professionals. The sessions are an opportunity for industry experts and media creatives to connect behind the scenes and learn from each other.
How do I access VIFF Industry?
If you are an industry professional, you can register for an Artist & Industry Pass and get access to exclusive Industry panels and more.
Industry Spotlight
Full line-up will be announced on August 27
Co-Producing Across the Pacific
Strategies & Case Studies
With a focus on treaty mechanisms, financing strategies and real-world success stories, navigate the opportunities and challenges of co-productions between Canada and Asia.
New Documentary Frontiers
Tech, Poetics & Politics
Addressing urgent questions in documentary today, we will focus on how emerging technologies intersect with bold nonfiction storytelling. Filmmakers, funders, technologists and curators will discuss evolving forms shaping the future of the genre.
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The Future is Drawn
Independent Animation as Auteur Cinema
Independent animation is pushing the boundaries of narrative and form. Animators, curators and producers discuss how bold visual storytelling and risk-taking redefine what animated cinema can be.
Embodied Futures
Acting, Identity and AI on Screen
Explore global performance practices, emphasizing diverse acting methods and their role in international collaboration, as well as how AI is reshaping performance, authorship, and embodiment in film’s evolving expressive landscape.
Decolonizing the Frame
New Voices, New Structures
This conversation centers BIPOC creators and industry allies who are dismantling dominant film languages and rebuilding storytelling systems, grounded in equity, imagination and collective power.
Crafting the Cut
Post-Production as Creative Authorship
Post-production is more than polish, it’s authorship. Editors, colorists and directors unpack the creative power of editing, sound and color, and explore how AI is reshaping the post workflow.
