BC Spotlight Awards
Best BC Film
Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew (Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, Kirk Thomas)
$10,000 award from Creative BC and $15,000 in post-production services credit supplied by Company 3.
Jury: Agam Darshi, Kevin Eastwood, Karen Wong
BC Emerging Filmmaker Award
Portraits From a Fire (Trevor Mack)
$5,000 award from UBCP/ACTRA and $10,000 equipment credit supplied by William F. White International Inc.
Jury: Agam Darshi, Kevin Eastwood, Karen Wong
Best BC Short Film
The Horses (Liz Cairns)
$2,500 cash prize presented by Pass-Through Productions.
Jury: Lev Lewis, Salar Pashtoonyar, Milena Salazar
Canadian Awards
Best Canadian Film
Sin La Habana (Kaveh Nabatian)
$15,000 award presented by the Directors Guild of Canada.
Jury: Lyana Patrick, Pascal Plante, Madeleine Sims-Fewer
Emerging Canadian Director
Bootlegger (Caroline Monnet)
$3,000 award presented by the Directors Guild of Canada.
Jury: Jessie Anthony, Grace Glowicki, Ted Stenson
Best Canadian Documentary
Returning Home (Sean Stiller)
$15,000 award presented by the Rogers Group of Funds.
Jury: Tamo Campos, Kat Jayme, Baljit Sangra
Best Canadian Short Film
Together (Albert Shin)
$4,500 cash prize presented by Reunion Pacific Entertainment & VIFF.
Jury: Lev Lewis, Salar Pashtoonyar, Milena Salazar
International Awards
Impact Award
Blue Box (Michal Weits)
$5,000 award presented by the Lochmaddy Foundation.
Jury: Jennifer Abbott, Jessica Hallenbeck, Leon Lee
VIFF Audience Awards
Galas & Special Presentations
Official Competition (Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat)
Contemporary World Cinema
The In-Laws (Kuba Michalczuk)
True North
Handle With Care: The Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew (Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, Kirk Thomas)
Gateway
Time (Ricky Ko)
Impact
Little Palestine: Diary of an Occupation (Abdallah Al-Khatib)
Insights
The Six (Arthur Jones)
M/A/D
Charlotte (Eric Warin, Tahir Rana)
Altered States
Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot)
VIFF Immersed Awards
Jury: Valerie Creighton, Jenni Ogden, Loc Dao, Alton Glass, Eric Cheng, Alexey Marfin, Loretta Sarah Todd, Tamara Shogaolu, Jingshu Chen
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)
Honourable Mention: The Passengers (Ziad Touma)
VeeR Audience Award
Red Eyes (Sngmoo Lee)
Decided by the number of audience views on VeeR.
XR Market Grant
Memory Place (Zeynep Abes)