Vancouver International Film Festival
Annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Location | 1181 Seymour Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 3M7 |
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Founded | 1958 |
Founded by | Leonard Schein |
Most recent | 2023 |
Hosted by | Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society |
Festival date | September 26 – October 6, 2024 |
Language | International |
Website | www |
The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society, a provincially-registered non-profit and federally-registered charitable organization, which also runs the year-round programming of the Vancity Theatre and Lochmaddy Studio Theatre at the VIFF Centre.[1]
Both in terms of admissions and number of films screened (133,000 and 324 respectively in 2016),[2] VIFF is among the five largest film festivals in North America. The festival screens films annually from approximately 73 countries on 10 screens.
The festival has three main programming platforms: East Asian film,[3] Canadian film, and nonfiction films. Besides films from around the world, VIFF also includes talks, workshops, performances, and other special events related to cinema.