Vancouver International Movie Awards

Vancouver is a beautiful city that cultivates talent, friendships, and relationships within the entertainment arts industry. More than 60,000 direct and indirect jobs are generated by film and TV production in B.C.

About

Vancouver is a beautiful city that cultivates talent, friendships, and relationships within the entertainment arts industry. More than 60,000 direct and indirect jobs are generated by film and TV production in B.C.; more than 80 percent of these are in Metro Vancouver. Vancouver has the largest cluster of top VFX and Animation studios in the world, including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Animal Logic and others. All of this means that Vancouver is the ideal location to take the next step in your filmmaking career. Inspired by this infrastructure, the Vancouver International Movie Awards was created with both a seasonal and yearly structure. The festvial has both online and physical screenings. At the end of each season, the jury selects the winners of each category through private screenings. The winners of each season will be then considered for online screening. Furthermore, each year we will choose a few films from the winners for the yearly competition; if they get selected by the programming committee, they will be shown and compete with other films-winners at the annual event. The official selection nominees are more than welcome to attend our yearly screening event and red carpet ceremony. Winners will be announced on our website every season.

You can do the submission through Filmfreeway

Categories

Best International Narrative Short

Best Canadian Narrative Short

Best Documentary Short

Best Animated Short

Best Experimental Short

Best Micro Short

Best Covid 19 Film

Best Student Short Film

Best Music Video

Best Actor in Short

Best Actress in Short

Best Ensemble Acting in Short

Best Female Directing in Short

Best Male Directing in Short

Best Script in Short

Best Editing in Short

Best Music in Short

Best Canadian Feature Film

Best Canadian Documentary

Best International Feature Film

Best Human Right’s Film

Best Female Directing in Feature Film

Best Male Directing in Feature Film

Best Actor in Feature Film

Best Actress in Feature Film

Best Music in Feature Film

Best Cinematography in Feature Film

Best Long Feature Script

Best Human Right’s Film

Best Social Justice Film

Best LGBT’S Film

Best Environmentalist Film

Best Women’s issue Film

Best Culinary Film

Best First Time Filmmaker

Best Horror

Best Comedy

Best Dark Comedy

Best Animation

Best Action

Best Web Series

Best TV Pilot

Frequently Asked Questions

Nomination

The Vancouver International Movie Awards is excited to announce we will be awarding a Best Feature and Best Short Film prize for our selected films during the festival. Both prizes will be awarded by jury. Films must have a completion date of 2021 or later to be eligible.

What is our mission?

The festival’s mission is to celebrate films and the art of filmmaking. We hope to provide a venue for filmmakers to exhibit their latest work, meet other filmmakers, and learn from industry professionals. We also hope to serve as a forum for discussion and debate about films and filmmaking. Our biggest dream is that our festival can also be a tool for marketing your movies; we hope to generate buzz and interest in your new releases. And be sure that we will do our best so that the festvial allows honest, objective feedback from audiences who don’t have any connection to you or your film. We hope to see your movie soon at the festvial!

About Festival

The Vancouver International Movie Awards celebrates the very best in independent and avant-garde cinema from around the world. This festival showcases a carefully curated selection of films that push the boundaries of traditional storytelling, exploring the depths of human emotion and the complexity of the world we live in.

You can do the submission through Filmfreeway

 

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