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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 Progressive, 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-Particular person screenings and occasions will happen on the VIFF Vancity Theatre and Studio Theatre. 

By movies and numerous panels, this 12 months’s pageant 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 novel pageant coupled with leisure and empowerment. It not solely shines a lightweight on variety, however via movie screenings and numerous dialogue panels, this pageant is an impactful motion that offers 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 screen in Vancouver, the Hollywood of the North. We invite everybody to affix 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 rejoice the variations that make us distinctive and the shared values that deliver us collectively.” – Said 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 essential 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 night time is a red-carpet occasion taking place 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 top chef at a retirement house 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 verify his identification and resolve if settling an previous rating is value sacrificing the brand new life she has constructed. 

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

This third version highlights the Fabienne Colas Basis’s award-winning BEING BLACK IN CANADA brief movie collection, the VIBFF Black Market, the place movie & tv business professionals will share their ideas and real-world experiences on immediately’s most important filmmaking points in addition to particular in-person screenings of White Nanny, Black Baby, Black Santa, Black youngster, 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 numerous companions.

Canadian brief movies from the 35 filmmakers of the 2022 cohort, will likely be offered 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 brief movies (8 to 10 minutes). The filmmakers obtained 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 novel venture 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 immediately’s social local weather with highly effective & FREE panel discussions.

In-Particular person Discussions
Dec. 2nd, 11 am – 4 pm, VIFF Middle 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, dwell on the Pageant’s Fb Web page

· Visible Harmonies: unravelling the craft of music video creation

· Profession path: the important function of the Assistant Director

The #VIBFF23 All Entry On-line Cross offers entry to the whole on-line movie programming and might be bought on the Pageant’s web site for $45 (+ tx/charges). All Entry In-person Cross offers entry to the whole in-person programming and might 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 might be bought on the Pageant’s web site.



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