¡CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA!
¡La convocatoria para la edición 19 del festival está abierta ahora!
CALL FOR BOARD MEMBERS 2021
The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival is seeking applications for new Board Members to help guide the organization into its next phase. RESPONSIBILITIES: • attend and support the annual Vancouver Latin American Film Festival; • attend the Annual General Meeting, exact date TBA but will be in late March or early April 2021; • attend Board [...]
Joy and Resilience in Black Brazilian Lives
Screening online from February 18-28, 2021. Sliding scale tickets $5 - $15. MEET THE FILMMAKERS!Thur, Feb 25th2pm Vancouver7pm São PauloVLAFF FACEBOOK LIVE BUY TICKETS Curated by Heitor Augusto While Black death remains a common trait of the Black experience in the diaspora, this program chooses an oppositional route, taking you towards a celebration of our lives [...]
Cine en Construcción (Work in Progress): Voces Afro Indígenas
We are thrilled to announce that the “Work in Progress: Afro Indigenous Voices” will take place from December 7-9, 2020! Five films have been selected as finalists to participate in an online forum that will bring together directors, writers, and producers with industry experts from this side of the continent to have dialogues about the projects. [...]
FESTIVAL AWARDS 2020
The 18th edition of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, is pleased to announce the 2020 festival prizes. BEST SHORT FILMATMOSPHERES (ATMÓSFERAS)Director: Leinad Pájaro de la HozColombia/Cuba, 2019 SPECIAL MENTION PORTRAITS OF MY MOTHER (RETRATOS DE MI MADRE)Director: Tavo RuizMexico, 2019 BEST FILM NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION THINGS WE DARE NOT DO (COSAS QUE NO HACEMOS)Director: Bruno [...]
Cine en construcción | Work in Progress /Voces Afro Indígenas Voices
Cine en construcción | Work in ProgressVoces Afro Indígenas Voices El Vancouver Latin American Film Festival anuncia su primera sección de Cine en Construcción (Work in Progress), dirigido a directores afro-descendientes y/o indígenas, de la región latinoamericana, para largometrajes que estén en etapa de post-producción (en corte final avanzado), que se llevará a cabo de manera [...]
VLAFF’s 2020 IMAGE by Yaimel López
Yaimel López is the artist who created VLAFF's 2020 poster image. Yaimel moved from Havana, Cuba in 2019 to make Vancouver his new home. ¡Hola Yaimel! What inspired the image? The image comes from and represents the mixture of Latin culture, the diversity that characterizes it and the very organic way in which all these singularities [...]
CHARLA CON ANDRÉS DUPRAT, Guionista Argentino.
#VLAFFENCASA se complace en invitar a uno de los guionistas argentinos más destacados de su generación, Andrés Duprat, quien ha colaborado con los directores Mariano Cohn y Gastón Duprat, en largometrajes como EL HOMBRE DE AL LADO, QUERIDA VOY A COMPRAR CIGARRILLOS Y VUELVO, EL CIUDADANO ILUSTRE, entre otras. La pandemia detuvo el rodaje de COMPETENCIA [...]
MY SKIN, LUMINOUS
VLAFF is pleased to present the latest work of Nicolás Pereda, co-director with Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez, MY SKIN LUMINOUS. MY SKIN, LUMINOUS premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019, the film also screened at the Toronto and Morelia Festivals and others.“In March 2018 our production company was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to make [...]
#CREARENLIBERTAD Short Film Contest to encourage creativity during the COVID-19 emergency
The theme is ‘'Crear en Libertad’’ - ‘'Finding freedom through creation’’. Addressing the extraordinary times we are living through now, the contest is intended to offer a space to explore how artists are still creating art during these very restricted times that we have never seen before in our generation in Canada. GUIDELINES Shorts made [...]