The third Version of the Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Pageant Returns, December 1-4, 2023 — BC Alliance for Arts + Tradition

VIBFF 2023 amplifies Black Voices with Modern, Numerous and Daring programming. A real celebration of Numerous Black Cinema!

After two profitable editions, The Vancouver Intl Black Movie Pageant is again as soon as once more with a hybrid model to amplify the voices of Afro-descendants in British Columbia and to foster accessibility throughout the nation. The third annual Vancouver Intl Black Movie Pageant #VIBFF23, created by the Fabienne Colas Basis and co-presented by World BC, is thrilled to announce its official hybrid program and occasions lineup, operating December 1 – 4, 2023. The In-Individual screenings and occasions will happen on the VIFF Vancity Theatre and Studio Theatre. 

Via movies and varied panels, this 12 months’s competition is aimed on the public from all communities because it highlights the expertise of creators from numerous backgrounds and makes room for them to mirror on the problems they face. 

The Vancouver Intl Black Movie Pageant (VIBFF), created by the Fabienne Colas Basis, is a singular competition coupled with leisure and empowerment. It not solely shines a light-weight on variety, however by movie screenings and varied dialogue panels, this competition is an impactful motion that provides a voice and a platform to marginalized artists. 

“It’s a real privilege to have the ability to showcase distinctive work and genuine Black tales that don’t at all times make it to the silver display in Vancouver, the Hollywood of the North. We invite everybody to hitch us for this thrilling and impactful third annual Vancouver Intl Black Movie Pageant! Come assist and assist unfold variety on and off digicam, from coast to coast, to have fun the variations that make us distinctive and the shared values that deliver us collectively.” – Acknowledged Fabienne Colas, President and Founding father of the Black Movie Festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver. 

World BC is worked up to showcase its assist to the Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Pageant. It is necessary to empower distinctive voices and promote Black expertise within the worldwide movie and tv business. – Bhupinder S. Hundal, World BC Information Director & Station Supervisor 

The opening evening is a red-carpet occasion occurring on Friday, December 1st at 7pm PST and opens with Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father the Satan on the Vancity Theatre. An moral and psychological thriller about an African refugee working as the pinnacle chef at a retirement dwelling in small-town France whose quiet existence is upended by the arrival of Father Patrick (Souleymane Sy Savané), a charismatic priest with whom she is satisfied she shares a heavy previous in her homeland. Marie should now affirm his id and determine if settling an previous rating is value sacrificing the brand new life she has constructed. 

On Friday, Dec. 1st, at 9 pm, all movies shall be accessible on-line.

This third version highlights the Fabienne Colas Basis’s award-winning BEING BLACK IN CANADA quick movie collection, the VIBFF Black Market, the place movie & tv business professionals will share their ideas and real-world experiences on right this moment’s most crucial filmmaking points in addition to particular in-person screenings of White Nanny, Black Youngster, Black Santa, Black baby, love faucets and Dancing-In-A-Yard. 

Particular occasions:

Fabienne Colas Basis’s “Being Black in Canada”
Dec. 2nd, 5 – 11 pm, Vancity theater

Introduced by NETFLIX, in collaboration with the Nationwide Financial institution, and supported by Telefilm Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and varied companions.

Canadian quick movies from the 35 filmmakers of the 2022 cohort, shall be introduced at #VIBFF23. The FCF’s Being Black in Canada supported 35 Black Canadian Filmmakers, 18 to 30 years previous, in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver within the creation of their first documentary quick movies (8 to 10 minutes). The filmmakers acquired skilled teaching for every stage of the audiovisual manufacturing course of after which made a brief documentary movie below the tutelage of business professionals. A singular mission that ensures inspiring rising artists from culturally numerous backgrounds.

The VIBFF Black Market
Dec. 2nd, VIFF Studio Theatre & Free on Fb

The VIBFF Black Market area is devoted to the cinema business and to elevating consciousness of right this moment’s social local weather with highly effective & FREE panel discussions.

In-Individual Discussions
Dec. 2nd, 11 am – 4 pm, VIFF Heart Studio Theatre

· Mapping the provincial and federal grants all year long

· Welcome to Lark Productions

· Welcome to Wildbrain Leisure

· Breaking boundaries and constructing bridges: accessing the Vancouver Leisure business

On-line Discussions
Dec. 2nd, 11 am – 2 pm, stay on the Pageant’s Fb Web page

· Visible Harmonies: unravelling the craft of music video creation

· Profession path: the very important function of the Assistant Director

The #VIBFF23 All Entry On-line Move offers entry to the complete on-line movie programming and could be bought on the Pageant’s web site for $45 (+ tx/charges). All Entry In-person Move offers entry to the complete in-person programming and could be bought on the Pageant’s web site for $39 (+ tx/charges) in-person, single tickets for movies can be found for $12, and $20 for the Opening Evening movie. Each could be bought on the Pageant’s web site.