Vancouver Student Film Festival 2008
More shorts at Improptu Film Festival
If you enjoyed the shorts you saw at our festival, check out the Impromptu Film Festival, showing this Sunday, July 6th at the Vancouver International Film Centre. The festival showcases outstanding short films from international filmmakers. Come out and support Vancouver's growing film scene!
Congratulations to our winners
Well, another year has passed, and another festival has successfully drawn to a close. For those of you who missed it, our award winning films of 2008 follow:
- Best Film: For You, My People (Jose Pablo Gonzalez, Emily Carr)
- Best Director: Terry Boake (Touch, University of British Columbia)
- PS Vancouver Award for Best Cinematography: Kyle Shepard (Touch, University of British Columbia)
- Best Screenplay: Marshall Axani (Three A.M., Capilano College)
- Best Post-Production: 8 (Jeff Simpson, Emily Carr)
- City of Burnaby Best Use of Locations: The Playground Duel (Jake Dunbar, Art Institute of Vancouver)
- Best Actor: Doug Price (Three A.M., Capilano College)
- Best Actress: Natasha Peck (Touch, University of British Columbia)
- Knowledge Network BC Perspectives Award: Beauty Lies (Karen Chapman, Emily Carr)
- George McNeill Columbia Academy Audience Choice Award: Memories (Glen Chua, Simon Fraser University)
The top five films, as selected by our panel of judges, will be rescreened on Movieola: The Short Film Channel:
- For You, My People (Jose Pablo Gonzalez, Emily Carr)
- 8 (Jeff Simpson, Emily Carr)
- A Look at the Life of Morgan Green (Kelvin Redvers, Simon Fraser University)
- Three A.M. (Doug Kerr, Capilano College)
- After Oz (Percy Kiyabu, Vancouver Film School)
Press takes notice
Our festival has recently been the subject of a number of articles, both in the student press and in several mainstream publications. For your reading pleasure:
- Earning the grade: 24 Hours
- Pupils shoot for your eyes: Georgia Straight (what a great headline!)
- Burgeoning directors fight 'student stigma' at film fest: Westender
- Freshman flicks find a fest: Langara Voice
- Mike Tanassee and the 3rd Vancouver Student Film Festival: UBC Newsletter
VSFF Trailer
For your viewing pleasure: A teaser for VSFF 2008. If you've ever made a student film in Vancouver, you can probably relate to this...
VSFF is on Facebook
Join the official Vancouver Student Film Festival Facebook group to hear the latest and greatest from Vancouver's student filmmakers and up-to-the-minute notifications when the program list is announced, when tickets go on sale, or just to hang out with other student filmmakers.
