2021 Festival Update

By | July 16th, 2021|Categories: VLAFF News|

The 19th Vancouver Latin American Film Festival is just around the corner! We will be presenting a hybrid event with online screenings (most available across Canada), as well as in-person screenings at The Cinematheque from August 26 - September 5. Throughout the festival, we will also be hosting free online dialogues and Q&As with many of [...]

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Notice of Annual General Meeting

By | April 3rd, 2021|Categories: VLAFF News|

The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival will hold its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, April 20 at 6:30pm.   Please send an email to rsvp@vlaff.org, if you would like to attend and a few days ahead, we will send you the Zoom meeting link and the materials to review in advance.   Everyone is invited to [...]

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BREVE VISTAZO AL CINE LATINOAMERICANO

By | March 13th, 2021|Categories: Film News|

#CineLatinoamericano #Convocatoria2021 #NuevosDirectores Aquí pueden ver a la conversación entre el crítico de cine mexicano Ernesto Diezmartínez y el director de VLAFF, Christian Sida, quienes charlaron sobre el cine latinoamericano reciente, echaron un vistazo a los festivales híbridos a un año del inicio de la pandemia, y comentaron la convocatoria del festival, debido al ingreso de [...]

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¡CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA!

By | March 3rd, 2021|Categories: Film Submissions|

¡La convocatoria para la edición 19 del festival está abierta ahora!

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CALL FOR BOARD MEMBERS 2021

By | February 24th, 2021|Categories: VLAFF News|

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 [...]

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Joy and Resilience in Black Brazilian Lives

By | February 15th, 2021|Categories: Special Presentations|

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 [...]

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Cine en Construcción (Work in Progress): Voces Afro Indígenas

By | December 1st, 2020|Categories: Film Submissions|

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. [...]

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FESTIVAL AWARDS 2020

By | September 7th, 2020|Categories: Film News, VLAFF News|

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 [...]

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Cine en construcción | Work in Progress /Voces Afro Indígenas Voices

By | July 17th, 2020|Categories: Film Submissions|

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 [...]

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VLAFF’s 2020 IMAGE by Yaimel López

By | July 2nd, 2020|Categories: VLAFF News|

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 [...]

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