The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) is proud to announce its theme for this year’s festival: Creating Opportunities**. This theme reflects VAFF’s commitment to supporting emerging and established filmmakers from Asian-Canadian and Asian diaspora communities by providing them with access to resources, mentorship, funding, and networking opportunities. We ask you to join and enter the…
Chicken Soup for the Asian Canadian Soul: Special Presentation of Christopher Yip’s STREAMS FLOW FROM A RIVER with encore screening of Carol Nguyen’s NANITIC DATE: April 1, 2023 (Saturday) DOORS OPEN: 3:30 PM STARTS: 4:00 PM RECEPTION: 6:00 PM VENUE: Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas ADDRESS: 88 W Pender St 3rd floor, Vancouver, BC RECEPTION…
In partnership with Elevation Pictures, we present a Lunar New Year advance screening of Hirokazu Koreeda‘s incredible ‘BROKER‘! The South Korean film, BROKER, which stunned film festivals around the world this year, was one of the stand out features of 2022. With an incredible cast including Song Kang-Ho, Gang Dong-Won and Bae Doona, it revolves…
As VAFF 2022 comes to a conclusion, we bring you the second part of our roundup with highlights from VAFF Virtual Week, VAFF’s OVASIAN Awards Ceremony & After Party, and our upcoming Best of VAFF26 week. VAFF Virtual Week – Extended till Tuesday, Nov 15th (11:59pm) Following 4 days of in-person programming, VAFF 2022 kicked…
Vancouver – Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) is proud to announce the “Living Legend” Lisa Lu as the recipient of VAFF’s 2022 “Outstanding Contribution” Diversity in Film Award. This award will be presented during VAFF’s OVAsian Awards & Gala at Science World on November 13, 2022. VAFF’s juried festival award winners will be announced and…
We’re almost halfway through VAFF 2022, as we continue our focus on this year’s theme: the importance of representation in film. Here’s a recap of what you may have missed so far, starting with our opening night on November 3. Opening Night Film Screening and Q&A Session Festivities began with a screening of Stay the…
