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Festival sets box office records Details of People's Choice balloting announced Vancouver, BC Canada (October 17, 2007 ) - The 26th annual Vancouver International Film Festival has broken the $1 million box office mark for the first time. The cost of putting on the festival exceeds $2.5 million, so that $1 million covers 40% of expenses with the balance being made up by sponsorship from the private sector (42%) and from government (18%). The popularity of the festival, as well as the media coverage and ballot results for individual films were more enthusiastic than ever. For the past decade, the number of films and the size of the audience have ranked us among the top five festivals on the continent. Attendance: 148,360 VIFF is a not-for-profit cultural organization that also operates the Vancouver International Film Centre , year-round film programming at the Vancity Theatre , and the annual Film and Television Forum , which also had a record-setting run in its 22nd successful edition. The 27th Vancouver International Film Festival will run September 25 to October 10, 2008. Vancity People's Choice Award for Most Popular Canadian Film
Also among the most popular Canadian features, in order of voting: Yung Chang's Up the Yangtze ; Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces (Canada/Greece); Carl Bessai's Normal; Jean-François Pouliot's Guide de la Petite Vengeance ; Tracy D. Smith's Taming Tammy ; Patrick Huard's Les 3 P'tits Cochons ; Laurie Lynd's Breakfast with Scot ; Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg ; Mark Leiren-Young's The Green Chain ; Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit's Saving Luna; Kari Skogland's The Stone Angel ; Martin Gero's Young People Fucking Rogers People's Choice Award for Most Popular International Film
Top 10% of international films (listed alphabetically . All films listed in this release were very well attended, substantially voted for, and averaged between four and five out of five—four being “very good” and five being “excellent”—in public voting. Please note that Canadian films have their own separate category above): Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Romania); Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden's Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (USA); Tricia Regan's Autism: The Musical (USA); Bertrand Normand's Ballerina (France); Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit (Israel); Stuart Townsend's Battle in Seattle (USA); Abdullah Oguz's Bliss (Turkey/Greece); Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters (Austria/Germany); Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France/USA); Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (Germany/Turkey); Jan Sverák's Empties (Czech Republic); The Hennegan Brothers' The First Saturday in May (USA); Daniel Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So (USA); Oliver Hodge's Garbage Warrior (UK); Suo Masayuki's I Just Didn't Do It (Japan); Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (Se Jie) (USA/Taiwan); Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman's Nanking (USA); John Jeffcoat's Outsourced (USA/India); Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis (Iran/France); John Pilger and Christopher Martin's The War on Democracy (UK); Paul Taylor's We Are Together (UK) Also very popular:Udo Maurer's About Water (Austria); Tata Amaral's Antonia (Brazil); Joe Wright's Atonement (UK); Simón Bross' Bad Habits ; Joseph Cedar's Beaufort (Israel); Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (USA); Florian Opitz's The Big Sellout (Germany); Nadine Labaki's Caramel (Lebanon); Nadav Schirman's The Champagne Spy (Israel/Germany); Anton Corbijn's Control (UK/Australia/Japan); Bari Pearlman's Daughters of Wisdom (USA); Carlos Saura's Fados (Spain/Portugal); Anna Broinowski's Forbidden Lie $ (Australia); Zhang Yang's Getting Home (China); Claude Chabrol's The Girl Cut in Two (France); Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts (Spain/USA); Arthur Dong's Hollywood Chinese (USA); Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories (Australia); Doris Dörrie's How to Cook Your Life (Germany); Jirí Menzel's I Served the King of England (Czech Republic); Phil Grabsky's In Search of Mozart (UK); David Sington's In the Shadow of the Moon (UK); Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen's Jellyfish (Israel/France); Paul Andrew Williams' London to Brighton (UK); Li Yu's Lost in Beijing (China); Wai Ka-fai and To Kei-fung's Mad Detective (Hong Kong); Jason Kohn's Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (USA); Gianni Amelio's The Missing Star (Italy); Amir Bar-Lev's My Kid Could Paint That (USA); Michael Stenberg, Johan Soderberg and Linus Torell's The Planet (Sweden); Brian De Palma's Redacted (USA); Connie Field's Salud! (USA); Tamara Jenkins' The Savages (USA); Stephen Kijak's Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (UK); Simon Miller's Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle (Scotland); Lee Chang-Dong's Secret Sunshine (South Korea); Mark Obenhaus' Steep (USA); Adam Curtis' The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (UK); Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen (USA); Rajnesh Domalpalli's Vanaja (India/USA); Anand Tucker's When Did You Last See Your Father? (UK); Rudolf Thome's You Told Me, You Love Me (Germany) Kyoto Planet “Climate for Change” Award ($25,000)
Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema ($10,000) sponsored by Brad Birarda Shared by
Special Mention:
Citytv Western Canadian Feature Film Award ($12,000)
Special Mention:
National Film Board of Canada Best Canadian Documentary Feature Award ($2,500)
Special Mention:
Women In Film and Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award
Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film ($2000 + $5,000 Avid software)
Media contact: Ellie O'Day, 604.646.4770, ellie@viff.org |