Mark Leiren-Young is a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and performer. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in Canadian Film is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. In 2000 and 2001 the award was only given to Canadian actors, the last few years every actor who plays in a Canadian production can win the award.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. In 2000 and 2001 the award was only given to Canadian actresses, the last few years every actress in a Canadian production can win the award.
The winners of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Film are listed below:
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle presents an award for Best British Columbia Film as part of its annual critics awards program, honouring the best films made within the Canadian province of British Columbia within the previous year.
Sara Canning is a Canadian actress. She co-starred on The CW television series The Vampire Diaries as Jenna Sommers, and appeared in the 2009 feature film, Black Field. She starred as Dylan Weir in the Canadian television series, Primeval: New World, and as Dr. Melissa Conner on the Global medical drama Remedy. Canning appeared in the 2017 theatrical film War for the Planet of the Apes. She is also known for her role as Jacquelyn Scieszka in the Netflix TV series A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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.
Mark Sawers is a Canadian film director and writer. Best known for his feature films Camera Shy and No Men Beyond This Point, he is also a four-time Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama for his films Stroke at the 13th Genie Awards, Hate Mail at the 14th Genie Awards, Shoes Off! at the 19th Genie Awards and Lonesome Joe at the 24th Genie Awards.
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.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director Canadian Film is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
Down River is a Canadian drama film, directed by Benjamin Ratner and released in 2013.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle to the film judged by its members as the best Canadian documentary film of the year. It is separate from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary, presented to international documentary films.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle to the film judged by its members as the best international documentary film of the year. It is separate from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary, presented to Canadian documentary films.
Tom Scholte is a Canadian actor and academic. He is most noted for his performances in the film Last Wedding, for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002 and a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2001, and The Dick Knost Show, for which he received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2013.
Shoes Off! is a Canadian short comedy film, directed by Mark Sawers and released in 1998. The film stars David Lewis as Stuart, a man who becomes entranced with a woman he meets in an elevator wearing a sexy pair of boots, but is too shy to talk to her. Some time later, he sees her again getting out of a taxi at a house party and decides to follow her in so he can finally meet her; however, his efforts are complicated by the hosts' "shoes off" policy, both because he has a hole in his sock and because he had paid more attention to the woman's boots than her face and thus struggles to identify who he's looking for.
That Burning Feeling is a Canadian romantic comedy-drama film, directed by Jason James and released in 2013. The film stars Paulo Costanzo as Adam Murphy, a womanizing hotshot real estate agent who is forced into a period of self-examination when he tests positive for gonorrhea and must track down his recent sexual partners to inform them; during the process, he also meets Liv, a woman who may offer him the opportunity to start fresh in a serious long-term relationship.
