With the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»International Film Festival coming to a close Oct.10, VIFF announced its Canadian award winners earlier this week.
The documentary Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story took home the VIFF Impact Award. Geneviève Dulude-Decelles won Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film for The Cut. Violent was named Best Canadian Film as well as Best B.C. Film. The B.C. Emerging Filmmaker Award went to Ana Valine’s Sitting on the Edge of Marlene. Everything Will Be received Honourable Mention for B.C. Spotlight. Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story also won the Audience Must See Award.
For those who missed out on the festival or want to watch their favourite film again, VIFF will remount a selection of the festival’s most popular films for one-off encore screenings Oct. 11 to Oct. 13 at various venues. Films include Advanced Style, Everything Will Be, Art and Craft, Black Fly, Come to My Voice, Difret, Faith Connection, Fish & Cat, God Help the Girl, Handmade with Love in France, House Bound, In Search of Chopin, Jalanan, Just Eat it: A Food Waste Story, Listen Up Philip, Miss and the Doctors, Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, Still Life, The Wonders, To Kill a Man, Violent, Walking Under Water and Wild Tales.
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