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 Pageant 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 Pageant #VIBFF23, created by the Fabienne Colas Basis and co-presented by World BC, is thrilled to announce its official hybrid program and occasions lineup, working December 1 – 4, 2023. The In-Particular person screenings and occasions will happen on the VIFF Vancity Theatre and Studio Theatre.
By way of movies and varied panels, this yr’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 replicate on the problems they face.
The Vancouver Intl Black Movie Pageant (VIBFF), created by the Fabienne Colas Basis, is a novel pageant coupled with leisure and empowerment. It not solely shines a lightweight on variety, however by means of movie screenings and varied 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 all the time 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 Pageant! Come assist and assist unfold variety on and off digicam, from coast to coast, to have a good time the variations that make us distinctive and the shared values that deliver us collectively.” – Acknowledged Fabienne Colas, President and Founding father of the Black Movie Festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver.
World BC is happy to showcase its assist to the Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Pageant. It is necessary to empower distinctive voices and promote Black expertise within the worldwide movie and tv business. – Bhupinder S. Hundal, World BC Information Director & Station Supervisor
The opening evening 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 pinnacle 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 verify his identification and resolve if settling an previous rating is price sacrificing the brand new life she has constructed.
On Friday, Dec. 1st, at 9 pm, all movies can be accessible on-line.
This third version highlights the Fabienne Colas Basis’s award-winning BEING BLACK IN CANADA quick movie sequence, 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 Little one, Black Santa, Black baby, love faucets and Dancing-In-A-Yard.
Particular occasions:
Fabienne Colas Basis’s “Being Black in Canada”
Dec. 2nd, 5 – 11 pm, Vancity theater
Offered by NETFLIX, in collaboration with the Nationwide Financial institution, and supported by Telefilm Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and varied companions.
Canadian quick movies from the 35 filmmakers of the 2022 cohort, can be offered at #VIBFF23. The FCF’s Being Black in Canada supported 35 Black Canadian Filmmakers, 18 to 30 years previous, 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 mission 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-Particular person Discussions
Dec. 2nd, 11 am – 4 pm, VIFF Middle 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 Pageant’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 offers entry to all the on-line movie programming and could be bought on the Pageant’s web site for $45 (+ tx/charges). All Entry In-person Move offers entry to all the in-person programming and could be bought on the Pageant’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 Pageant’s web site.
