2014 Vancouver International Film Festival

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2014 Vancouver International Film Festival
Opening film Wild by Jean-Marc Vallée
Closing film Whiplash by Damien Chazelle
Location Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Festival dateSeptember 25–October 10, 2014

The 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 33rd event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 25 to October 10, 2014. [1]

Contents

The festival's opening gala film was Jean-Marc Vallée's Wild , and its closing gala was Damien Chazelle's Whiplash .

Awards

Award winners were announced on October 10. [2]

AwardFilmFilmmaker
People's Choice The Vancouver Asahi Yuya Ishii
Most Popular Canadian Feature Preggoland Jacob Tierney
Most Popular Canadian Documentary All the Time in the World Suzanne Crocker
Most Popular International Documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me James Keach
Best Canadian Film Violent Andrew Huculiak
Best BC Film Violent Andrew Huculiak
BC Emerging Filmmaker Sitting on the Edge of Marlene Ana Valine
Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film The Cut (La Coupe) Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
VIFF Impact AwardJust Eat It: A Food Waste StoryGrant Baldwin
Women in Film and Television Artistic Merit Award Sitting on the Edge of Marlene Ana Valine

Films

Special Presentations

Canadian Images

Cinema of Our Time

Spotlight on France

Documentaries

Dragons & Tigers

Altered States

Arts & Letters

Canadian Short Films

International Short Films

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References

  1. Marsha Lederman, "Japanese baseball feature leads off Vancouver International Film Festival". The Globe and Mail , September 3, 2014.
  2. Bethany Lindsay, "Baseball film hits home run at VIFF; The Vancouver Asahi takes people's choice award". Vancouver Sun , October 11, 2014.