2024 People's Choice Award presented by PELIPLAT VLAFF is pleased to announce a new partnership with the platform PELIPLAT, a leading website for film enthusiasts and critics, to launch the 2024 People's Choice Award presented by PELIPLAT. We are happy to announce this partnership and prize, which will encourage Vancouver audiences to select and vote for [...]
VLAFF is looking for two awesome individuals to run the show at the 🎟️BOX OFFICE🎟️ during our festival from September 5 – 15, 2024. The Box Office Supervisor ✨ will be in charge of oversight and set-up of film festival ticketing both in advance and during the festival, oversight of all box office activities, including [...]
Still from LA SUPREMA (Dir. Felipe Holguín Caro) In 2024, VLAFF’s spotlight will be on the always well received cinema from Colombia, a country full of diverse stories with a great tradition in cinema. In fact, the first film festival founded in Latin America was the Cartagena Film Festival (FICCI) in 1960. During its 22 years, [...]
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGWHEN: FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT 6PMWHERE: IN PERSON at VLAFF Headquarters The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival will hold its Annual General Meeting in person on Friday, May 31 at 6PM. Anyone may attend, but only current VLAFF members are able to vote for our 2024/2025 Board of Directors. To learn more [...]
The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival has announced the winning film and participants of its third edition of Work in Progress (Cine en construcción): Afro Indigenous Voices. This section is dedicated to feature-length films in post-production stage that are written, directed, or produced by Afro-descendants and/or Indigenous creators from Canada, the Latin American region and the Caribbean; and, [...]
We recommend delving into the work of Claudia Sainte-Luce & Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza and discover what Afro-Latinx directors are creating! Still from THE AMAZING CATFISH (2013) Claudia Sainte-Luce is a Mexican screenwriter, director and actress. Born in Veracruz, Mexico, Sainte-Luce studied visual arts at the University of Guadalajara, made some short films and worked as an [...]
Shorts Films in competitionFiction, animated, experimental, hybrid, and documentary shorts with Latin American content. Maximum running time: 21 minutes. Year: 2023-2024FILMFREEWAY
The 22nd edition of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival will take place from September 5 - 15, 2024, with submissions opening on Nov 16, 2023 and closing Feb 29, 2024.First feature-length films (opera primas) by Latin American directors or with Latin American content. Fiction, animation, documentary, arthouse, hybrid. Running time: 60 minutes and longer. Year: [...]
A propósito del estreno de las nuevas cintas de los directores Sebatián Silva y Pablo Larraín, Christian Sida hace un breve repaso sobre sus primeros largometrajes y su relación con VLAFF Dos películas chilenas que han sido estrenadas recientemente me hicieron recordar parte de la trayectoría y programación de VLAFF. Still de EL CONDE (2023) La [...]
