VIBFF 2023 amplifies Black Voices with Modern, Numerous and Daring programming. A real celebration of Numerous Black Cinema!
After two profitable editions, The Vancouver Intl Black Movie Competition is again as soon as once more with a hybrid model to amplify the voices of Afro-descendants in British Columbia and to foster 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 thrilled to announce its official hybrid program and occasions lineup, working December 1 – 4, 2023. The In-Individual screenings and occasions will happen on the VIFF Vancity Theatre and Studio Theatre.
Via movies and numerous panels, this 12 months’s pageant is aimed on the public from all communities because it highlights the expertise of creators from numerous backgrounds and makes room for them to mirror on the problems they face.
The Vancouver Intl Black Movie Competition (VIBFF), created by the Fabienne Colas Basis, is a singular pageant coupled with leisure and empowerment. It not solely shines a light-weight on variety, however via movie screenings and numerous dialogue panels, this pageant is an impactful motion that offers a voice and a platform to marginalized artists.
“It’s a real privilege to have the ability to showcase 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 help and assist unfold variety on and off digital camera, from coast to coast, to have a good time the variations that make us distinctive and the shared values that convey us collectively.” – Said Fabienne Colas, President and Founding father of the Black Movie Festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver.
International BC is worked up to showcase its help to the Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Competition. It is essential to empower distinctive voices and promote Black expertise within the worldwide movie and tv business. – Bhupinder S. Hundal, International BC Information Director & Station Supervisor
The opening night time is a red-carpet occasion taking place on Friday, December 1st at 7pm PST and opens with Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father the Satan on the Vancity Theatre. An moral and psychological thriller about an African refugee working as the top chef at a retirement house in small-town France whose quiet existence is upended by the arrival of Father Patrick (Souleymane Sy Savané), a charismatic priest with whom she is satisfied she shares a heavy previous in her homeland. Marie should now affirm his identification and determine if settling an outdated rating is price sacrificing the brand new life she has constructed.
On Friday, Dec. 1st, at 9 pm, all movies will likely be accessible on-line.
This third version highlights the Fabienne Colas Basis’s award-winning BEING BLACK IN CANADA quick movie collection, the VIBFF Black Market, the place movie & tv business professionals will share their ideas and real-world experiences on at this time’s most crucial filmmaking points in addition to particular in-person screenings of White Nanny, Black Youngster, Black Santa, Black youngster, love faucets and Dancing-In-A-Yard.
Particular occasions:
Fabienne Colas Basis’s “Being Black in Canada”
Dec. 2nd, 5 – 11 pm, Vancity theater
Introduced by NETFLIX, in collaboration with the Nationwide Financial institution, and supported by Telefilm Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and numerous companions.
Canadian quick movies from the 35 filmmakers of the 2022 cohort, will likely be introduced at #VIBFF23. The FCF’s Being Black in Canada supported 35 Black Canadian Filmmakers, 18 to 30 years outdated, in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver within the creation of their first documentary quick movies (8 to 10 minutes). The filmmakers acquired skilled teaching for every stage of the audiovisual manufacturing course of after which made a brief documentary movie below the tutelage of business professionals. A singular undertaking that ensures inspiring rising artists from culturally numerous backgrounds.
The VIBFF Black Market
Dec. 2nd, VIFF Studio Theatre & Free on Fb
The VIBFF Black Market area is devoted to the cinema business and to elevating consciousness of at this time’s social local weather with highly effective & FREE panel discussions.
In-Individual Discussions
Dec. 2nd, 11 am – 4 pm, VIFF Heart Studio Theatre
· Mapping the provincial and federal grants all year long
· Welcome to Lark Productions
· Welcome to Wildbrain Leisure
· Breaking obstacles and constructing bridges: accessing the Vancouver Leisure business
On-line Discussions
Dec. 2nd, 11 am – 2 pm, reside on the Competition’s Fb Web page
· Visible Harmonies: unravelling the craft of music video creation
· Profession path: the very important function of the Assistant Director
The #VIBFF23 All Entry On-line Move provides entry to your entire on-line movie programming and could be bought on the Competition’s web site for $45 (+ tx/charges). All Entry In-person Move provides entry to your entire in-person programming and could be bought on the Competition’s web site for $39 (+ tx/charges) in-person, single tickets for movies can be found for $12, and $20 for the Opening Night time movie. Each could be bought on the Competition’s web site.
