Alice Cares is a 2015 Dutch film directed by Sander Burger. It is a documentary film that explores how a new robot technology may be able to aid many senior citizens in the developing western world. [1] The film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in Vancouver, B.C., on 27 September 2015. [2] [1]
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October.
"Harry" Winston Jerome was a Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and set a total of seven world records over the course of his career.
The VIFF Centre is a movie theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which houses the 175-seat Vancity Theatre, the 41-seat Studio Theatre, as well as the offices for the Vancouver International Film Festival. Located at 1181 Seymour Street in downtown Vancouver, the theatre can accommodate seminars, live performances, film, video, and multimedia presentations.
Occupy Love is a 2012 documentary film about the Occupy movement directed by Velcrow Ripper. The film premiered at the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Preggoland is a 2014 Canadian comedy film directed by Jacob Tierney and written by Sonja Bennett. The film stars Bennett as Ruth, a 35-year-old single woman who falsely claims to be pregnant to deflect her friends' and family's mounting disapproval of her directionless, irresponsible lifestyle.
Stephen Campanelli is a movie cameraman and film director. He has been a long-term member of Clint Eastwood's film production crew.
Connor Gaston is a Canadian film director based in British Columbia, known for making films with religious themes.
Eadweard is a 2015 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kyle Rideout and written and produced by Josh Epstein. The film, a psychological drama, stars Michael Eklund as photographer Eadweard Muybridge. The film's Canadian premiere was at the Vancouver International Film Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia on October 2, 2015.
The Pass System is a Canadian documentary film released in 2015, focusing on the former Canadian government policy known as the pass system, which enforced the segregation of First Nations people on their reserves.
Julia Sarah Stone is a Canadian actress. She began studying theater at the age of six, and appeared in a number of school plays over the following years. After booking a small part in an independent short film in 2009, she won her breakthrough role in the 2011 feature The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, for which she received a Young Artist Award. Afterward, Stone was subsequently cast in the pilot episode of the CW series Emily Owens, M.D.; the third season of AMC's The Killing; and a number of Canadian-produced independent films.
Danny is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Aaron Zeghers and Lewis Bennett and released in 2019. The film is a portrait of Zeghers's uncle Danny Ryder, compiled entirely from VHS footage Ryder recorded of himself in the 1990s during his fatal battle with leukemia.
The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Bojan Bodružić and released in 2018. The film centres on interviews between Bodružić, a Bosnian-born filmmaker who came to Canada with his parents as refugees from the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and his grandparents, who never left Sarajevo, about their experiences living through the war.
The 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 40th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from October 1 to October 11, 2021. Unlike the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival, which was staged entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 festival featured in-person screenings at the VIFF Centre and other venues, although most titles were also available on the online VIFF Connects platform.
Godavari is a 2021 Indian Marathi-language drama film directed by Nikhil Mahajan and produced by Jitendra Joshi, Mitali Joshi, Pavan Malu and Nikhil Mahajan under the banner of Blue Drop Films. Starring Neena Kulkarni, Jitendra Joshi and Vikram Gokhale, the film tells a story of a family living on the banks of river Godavari in Nashik. It had its world premiere at 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival on 4 October 2021, and was released theatrically on 11 November 2022.
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux is a Canadian film director and editor from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is most noted as a two-time Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year, receiving nominations alongside Chandler Levack at the Juno Awards of 2015 for PUP's "Guilt Trip" and at the Juno Awards of 2016 for PUP's "Dark Days".
Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew is a 2021 Canadian documentary film, directed by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Kirk Thomas. The film is a portrait of the Notic Streetball Crew, a streetball team who were active in Vancouver in the early 2000s; Schaulin-Rioux and Thomas got their start in the film industry making short documentary films and performance videos about the team.
The Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver International Film Festival to honour the film selected by a jury as the best Canadian film screened at VIFF that year.
Mystic Ball is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Greg Hamilton and released in 2006. The film profiles the Burmese sport of chinlone.