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VIFF Shorts team Casey Wei and Jaewoo Kang talk programming for your audience
Season 3 Episode 22
In this special edition of the VIFF Podcast, get a glimpse of what goes on behind-the-scenes when it comes to VIFF programming, and how certain shorts make it to screen at our annual festival. VIFF S…
Published on 9 hours ago
'I Saw Three Black Lights' filmmaker Santiago Lozano on ritual as resistance in Colombia
Season 3 Episode 21
In Santiago Lozano's 'I Saw Three Black Lights,' a wise old shaman embarks on a final journey into the Colombian jungle to settle a spiritual debt and reconnect with his late son. We sit down with th…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Filmmaker Sanja Zivkovic on motherhood, the broken system of adoption, and seeing a story from all points of view in 'Cat's Cry'
Season 3 Episode 20
'Cat's Cry' filmmaker Sanja Zivkovic sits down with VIFF Festival Programmer & Program Lead, Sonja Baksa, to talk about her global career spanning all the way from SFU's Burnaby campus to Serbia. 'Ca…
Published on 4 weeks ago
'Save My Soul' filmmaker Kam Fai Leung on loneliness and our primal desire to be loved
Season 3 Episode 19
When a mute young man seeks to escape into the wilderness, he quickly realizes he's not suited to survive on his own. To adapt, the young man begins to embody a feline, finding solace in a blind man'…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Director Devin Shears on his first feature, and the fascination with fatness in "Cherub"
Season 3 Episode 18
Harvey is a lonely, overweight man who discovers new self-esteem when he submits a photo to Cherub, a gay magazine “For big men and their admirers.” Director Devin Shears talks from his move from sho…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Kerr Holden wrestles with athleticism, performance, and metal in 'Judas Icarus Twists His Wrist'
Season 3 Episode 17
In 'Judas Icarus Twists His Wrist,' Director Kerr Holden (she/her) follows BC-based wrestler, Judas Icarus, following his arduous road to recovery after an injury. On the choreography of wrestling, t…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
'Balomania' filmmaker Sissel Morell Dargis on the beauty behind Brazil's baloeiros, and getting your start in documentary filmmaking
Season 3 Episode 16
Hot air ballooning has been illegal in São Paulo, Brazil since the 1990's. Intrigued by this underworld of guerilla artists, who risk their lives, and freedom in order to craft and release huge, lavi…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
'78 Days' filmmaker Emilija Gašić on docufiction and telling personal history through found footage
Season 3 Episode 15
Filmmaker Emilija Gašić joins VIFF’s Vanguard series programmer Sonja Baksa to discuss 78 Days, a found-footage film that won the Vanguard Award at VIFF 2024. Shot on hi-8 tapes in her native Serbia,…
Published on 3 months ago
Vancouver filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming explores mortality and imagines a future without waste with 'Can I Get a Witness?'
Season 3 Episode 14
In this episode of the VIFF Podcast, program manager and senior programmer PoChu AuYeung sits down with acclaimed Canadian animator and filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming to discuss her latest film, Can I G…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Veteran Documentarian Connie Field Exposes Democracy’s Fragility in 'Democracy Noir'
Season 3 Episode 13
In this episode of the VIFF Podcast, programmer Alan Franey interviews American filmmaker Connie Field about her documentary feature Democracy Noir, which explores the rise of Viktor Orbán in Hungary…
Published on 4 months ago