Wrapping up March, Easter is ahead with a long weekend full of entertainment and activities in this week’s picks. Masterpiece: Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition is now open at Vancouver Convention Centre, and already extended its run until August 29, 2021 so you have the whole summer to see this amazing spectacle of Van Gogh’s…
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Picks of the Week – March 24, 2021
March break is winding down but there’s lots of entertaining to do for the final weekend. Masterpiece: Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition is now open at Vancouver Convention Centre, and already extended its run until August 29, 2021 so you have the whole summer to see this amazing spectacle of Van Gogh’s masterpieces. Listen: The…
VQFF Returns For 2020 – Virtually
Vancouver’s second largest film festival is readying its return to screens, at-home. Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) presented by Out On Screen is returning in a virtual format this summer from Thursday, August 13 to Sunday, August 23, 2020. Recently announced new VQFF and Out On Screen Interim Executive Director, Brandon Yan says, “I am…
DOXA Awards 2019
The DOXA Documentary Film Festival wrapped up for another year last weekend with a closing night screening of Hepi Mita’s Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen. After screening 82 films from around the world the adjudicators determined the recipients of the 2019 DOXA Awards. The three awards were presented prior to the closing screening and went…
VIFF 2018 is underway!
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is now on, lighting up screens around the city until October 12, 2018. The 37th edition of VIFF brings hundreds of films from around the globe, and around the corner to Vancouver cinemas. Award-winning Hollywood star-power rubs shoulders with independent local BC features, while foreign language films join the…
VQFF Opening Gala coming August 9th
The 2018 Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) kicks off on Thursday August 9th with a 7:00pm screening of Yen Tan’s critically-observed period piece, 1985, at the Vancouver Playhouse. Director Tan’s fifth feature black & white film, 1985 follows Adrian, a closeted young man returning to his Texas hometown for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis….
Vancouver Queer Film Festival starts August 10, 2017
Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), the city’s second largest film fest gets under way in one week. Running August 10 to 20, 2017, VQFF brings 11 days of award winning films, talkbacks, performances and parties. The Festival opens at the Vancouver Playhouse with the 2017 Sundance Award-winning film, I Dream in Another Language (Sueño en Otro…