VIBFF 2023 amplifies Black Voices with Revolutionary, 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 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.
By way of movies and numerous panels, this yr’s pageant is aimed on the public from all communities because it highlights the expertise of creators from various 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 way of movie screenings and numerous dialogue panels, this pageant is an impactful motion that provides 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 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 help and assist unfold variety on and off digicam, from coast to coast, to have fun the variations that make us distinctive and the shared values that carry 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 happy to showcase its help to the Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Pageant. It is vital to empower distinctive voices and promote Black expertise within the worldwide movie and tv trade. – Bhupinder S. Hundal, International 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 top chef at a retirement dwelling 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 previous rating is value 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 brief movie sequence, the VIBFF Black Market, the place movie & tv trade professionals will share their ideas and real-world experiences on at present’s most important filmmaking points in addition to particular in-person screenings of White Nanny, Black Youngster, 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
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 brief 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 brief movies (8 to 10 minutes). The filmmakers obtained skilled teaching for every stage of the audiovisual manufacturing course of after which made a brief documentary movie underneath the tutelage of trade professionals. A singular undertaking that ensures inspiring rising artists from culturally various backgrounds.
The VIBFF Black Market
Dec. 2nd, VIFF Studio Theatre & Free on Fb
The VIBFF Black Market house is devoted to the cinema trade and to elevating consciousness of at present’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 boundaries and constructing bridges: accessing the Vancouver Leisure trade
On-line Discussions
Dec. 2nd, 11 am – 2 pm, stay on the Pageant’s Fb Web page
· Visible Harmonies: unravelling the craft of music video creation
· Profession path: the important position of the Assistant Director
The #VIBFF23 All Entry On-line Go provides entry to the complete on-line movie programming and could be bought on the Pageant’s web site for $45 (+ tx/charges). All Entry In-person Go provides entry to the complete 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 Evening movie. Each could be bought on the Pageant’s web site.
