Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Columbia Film

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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.

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Winners

2000s

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref.
2005 It's All Gone Pete Tong Michael Dowse [1]
Eve and the Fire Horse Julia Kwan [2]
A Simple Curve Aubrey Nealon
2006 Fido Andrew Currie [3]
Everything's Gone Green Paul Fox [4]
Mount Pleasant Ross Weber
Unnatural & Accidental Carl Bessai
2007 American Venus Bruce Sweeney [5]
Confessions of an Innocent Man David Paperny [6]
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High Brett Harvey
2008 Fifty Dead Men Walking Kari Skogland [7]
Edison and Leo Neil Burns [8]
Stone of Destiny Charles Martin Smith
2009 Facing Ali Pete McCormack [9]
Excited Bruce Sweeney [10]
A Shine of Rainbows Vic Sarin

2010s

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref.
2010 Fathers & Sons Carl Bessai [11]
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie Sturla Gunnarsson [12]
Mighty Jerome Charles Officer
2011 People of a Feather Joel Heath [13]
Daydream Nation Michael Goldbach [14]
Sisters & Brothers Carl Bessai
2012 Beyond the Black Rainbow Panos Cosmatos [15]
Becoming Redwood Jesse James Miller [16]
Camera Shy Mark Sawers
Random Acts of Romance Katrin Bowen
2013 Down River Benjamin Ratner [17]
Oil Sands Karaoke Charles Wilkinson [18]
When I Walk Jason DaSilva
2014 Violent Andrew Huculiak [19]
Everything Will Be Julia Kwan [20]
Preggoland Jacob Tierney
2015 Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World Charles Wilkinson [21]
Eadweard Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout [22]
No Men Beyond This Point Mark Sawers
2016 Hello Destroyer Kevan Funk [23]
Aim for the Roses John Bolton [24]
Koneline: Our Land Beautiful Nettie Wild
Window Horses Ann Marie Fleming
2017 Never Steady, Never Still Kathleen Hepburn [25]
Gregoire Cody Bown [26]
Luk'Luk'I Wayne Wapeemukwa
The Road Forward Marie Clements
2018 Edge of the Knife Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown [27]
N.O.N. Zebulon Zang [28]
This Mountain Life Grant Baldwin
When the Storm Fades Seán Devlin
2019 The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers [29]
Because We Are Girls Baljit Sangra [30]
Raf Harry Cepka

2020s

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref.
2020 Chained Titus Heckel [31]
Brother, I Cry Jessie Anthony [32]
The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan
2021 Portraits from a Fire Trevor Mack [33]
Be Still Elizabeth Lazebnik [34]
Someone Like Me Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor
2022 Riceboy Sleeps Anthony Shim [35]
Doug and the Slugs and Me Teresa Alfield [36]
Until Branches Bend Sophie Jarvis
2023 Seagrass Meredith Hama-Brown [37]
Float Sherren Lee [38]
I'm Just Here for the Riot Kathleen Jayme, Asia Youngman
WaaPaKe Jules Arita Koostachin

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