VIBFF 2023 amplifies Black Voices with modern, various and daring programming. A real celebration of Various Black Cinema!
After two profitable editions, The Vancouver Intl Black Movie Competition is again once more with a hybrid model to amplify the voices of Afro-descendants in British Columbia and promote accessibility throughout the nation. The third annual Vancouver Intl Black Movie Competition #VIBFF23, created by the Fabienne Colas Basis and co-presented by International BC, is happy to announce its official hybrid program and occasion sequence, December 1-4, 2023. The in-person screenings and occasions will happen on the VIFF Vancity Theater and Studio Theatre.
By movies and numerous panels, this 12 months’s competition is concentrating on audiences from all communities because it spotlights the expertise of creators from totally different backgrounds and gives an area for them to mirror on the problems they face.
Created by the Fabienne Colas Basis, the Vancouver Intl Black Movie Competition (VIBFF) is a singular competition linked to leisure and empowerment. Not solely does it shine a lightweight on variety, however by movie screenings and numerous dialogue panels, this competition is an impactful motion that offers a voice and a platform to marginalized artists.
“It’s a true privilege to have the ability to present distinctive work and genuine black tales that don’t at all times make it to the silver display screen in Vancouver, the Hollywood of the north. We invite everybody to affix us for this thrilling and impactful third annual Vancouver Intl Black Movie Competition! Come assist and assist unfold variety on and off digicam, from coast to coast, to rejoice the variations that make us distinctive and the shared values that deliver us collectively.” – Mentioned Fabienne Colas, president and founding father of the Black Movie Festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.
International BC is happy to indicate its assist for the Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Competition. It is very important amplify distinctive voices and promote black expertise within the worldwide movie and tv trade. – Bhupinder S. Hundal, International BC Information Director & Station Supervisor
Opening night time is a pink carpet occasion going down on Friday, December 1st at 7pm PST and opening with Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father the Satan on the Vancity Theater. An moral and psychological thriller about an African refugee who works as a chef in a retirement residence in a small city in France, whose peaceable existence is disrupted by the arrival of Father Patrick (Souleymane Sy Savané), a charismatic priest with whom she is satisfied that she shares a troublesome previous in her residence nation. Marie should now affirm his identification and determine whether or not settling an outdated rating is value sacrificing the brand new life she has constructed.
All movies shall be accessible on-line on Friday, December 1 at 9 p.m.
This third version highlights the award-winning tasks of the Fabienne Colas Basis BEING BLACK IN CANADA brief movie sequence, the VIBFF Black Market, the place movie and tv trade professionals will share their ideas and real-world experiences on right this moment’s most crucial movie points, in addition to particular in-person screenings of White babysitter, black baby, black Santa, black baby, love faucets And Dancing-in-a-yard.
Particular occasions:
Fabienne Colas Basis ‘Being Black in Canada’
December 2, 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM, Vancity theater
Offered by NETFLIX, in affiliation with Nationwide Financial institution, and supported by Telefilm Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and several other companions.
Canadian brief movies from the 35 filmmakers of the 2022 cohort shall be offered at #VIBFF23. FCF’s Being Black in Canada supported 35 black Canadian filmmakers, aged 18 to 30, in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver within the creation of their first brief documentary movies (8 to 10 minutes). The filmmakers obtained skilled teaching for every stage of the audiovisual manufacturing course of after which created a brief documentary underneath the steerage of trade professionals. A novel challenge that creates inspiring rising artists with culturally various backgrounds.
The VIBFF black market
December 2, VIFF Studio Theater & free on Fb
The VIBFF Black Market area is devoted to the movie trade and elevating consciousness of the present social local weather with highly effective and FREE panel discussions.
Private discussions
December 2, 11am – 4pm, VIFF Heart Studio Theater
· Mapping provincial and federal subsidies all year long
· Welcome to Lark Productions
· Welcome to Wildbrain Leisure
· Breaking Boundaries and Constructing Bridges: Gaining Entry to Vancouver’s Leisure Trade
On-line discussions
December 2, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., reside on the competition’s Fb web page
· Visible Harmonies: Unraveling the craft of music video making
· Profession path: the essential function of the assistant director
The #VIBFF23 All Entry On-line Go gives entry to all the on-line movie programming and will be bought on the competition’s web site for $45 (+ tx/charges). The All Entry In-person Go gives entry to the complete in-person programming and will be bought in particular person on the competition’s web site for $39 (+ tx/charges). Single film tickets can be found for $12 and $20 for the opening night time film. Each will be bought on the competition web site.
