Volkmar Richter covers VIFF from start to finish. Starting here.
The Vancouver Observer's Wendy Dallian contacted director Ahmad Abdalla, via email, to discuss his feature debut film, Heliopolis. Abdalla gives us a compelling look the trials and tribulations of...
The last time that Sketches for Roam was screened, on February 15th, 2009, Dan Northcott was still alive. This story of a “tragic, romantic nomad,” explores a decade in the life of the filmmaker, who...
Director Brett Ingram's documentary Rocaterrania is a journey through the incredible imagination of the brilliant artist, writer, and visionary, Renaldo Kuhler. Kuhler works as a scientific...
The drought has eased. Leftovers are over. The films that arrived today are truly new and at least one, maybe two or three, are very good. (Read more)
He stunk to high heaven. He was old, it was evident in his eyes. He had patches of fur missing. He glanced at me through the steel cage of the SPCA prison he was in. I bored him. Unlike the other...
It goes without saying that the local actors union must be wetting its pants with the anticipation of work for its members now that it's out that Pixar, the makers of the Cannes Film Festival opening...
If you listen carefully, right now, you can hear the sound of a filmmaker screaming in Vancouver. Or sobbing. Or laughing. Nearing the end of eight days of insane work, six teams of Vancouver...
There's one true thing about genuine Vancouverites: we're kind of cowboys.I don't mean assless chaps cowboys (though one could argue...) nor ten gallon hat cowboys. We leave the...
In a little town in France, Vancouver is considered a hot bed of filmmaking. Short filmmaking, that is.Since 1979, the chilly first week of February is host to the Clermont-Ferrand International...
