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VIFF 2009
Vancouver International Film Festival Winners!
The jury for the Canadian Images program awarded the inaugural Canwest Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and its $20,000 cash prize to director Xavier Dolan of Montreal for I KILLED MY MOTHER (J’ai tué ma mere). The winner was selected from 19 films in competition.
The Canadian Images jury has awarded a $2,000 cash award to directors Jan Binsse and David Tougas of Montreal for their film THE LAST ACT (Le dernier acte). The competition was open to first-time filmmakers.
65 Red Roses (Canada/BC) directed by Nimisha Mukerjee and Philip Lyall, won the NFB’s Most Popular Canadian Documentary award. And, Women in Film & Television Vancouver presented its Artistic Merit Award toNimisha Mukerji, co-director, producer and editor, and Gillian Lowry, co-producer, of 65 RED ROSES.
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION (USA), directed by Bill Guttentag, has won the Rogers People’s Choice Award. All of the festival’s 377 films – dramas and nonfiction, short, mid- and feature length – were eligible.
The audience chose FACING ALI (Canada/BC), directed by Pete McCormack for the second annual documentary Audience Award for most popular nonfiction film.
AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (USA), directed by Dan Stone, has won the VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award.
EIGHTEEN WINS VIFF DRAGONS & TIGERS AWARD FOR YOUNG CINEMA
The Festival has announced EIGHTEEN directed by JANG Kun-Jae of South Korea has won the 16th annual Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema and a cash prize of $10,000.
Film Festival

VIFF 2009
Vancouver International Film Festival Winners!
The jury for the Canadian Images program awarded the inaugural Canwest Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and its $20,000 cash prize to director Xavier Dolan of Montreal for I KILLED MY MOTHER (J’ai tué ma mere). The winner was selected from 19 films in competition.
The Canadian Images jury has awarded a $2,000 cash award to directors Jan Binsse and David Tougas of Montreal for their film THE LAST ACT (Le dernier acte). The competition was open to first-time filmmakers.
65 Red Roses (Canada/BC) directed by Nimisha Mukerjee and Philip Lyall, won the NFB’s Most Popular Canadian Documentary award. And, Women in Film & Television Vancouver presented its Artistic Merit Award toNimisha Mukerji, co-director, producer and editor, and Gillian Lowry, co-producer, of 65 RED ROSES.
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION (USA), directed by Bill Guttentag, has won the Rogers People’s Choice Award. All of the festival’s 377 films – dramas and nonfiction, short, mid- and feature length – were eligible.
The audience chose FACING ALI (Canada/BC), directed by Pete McCormack for the second annual documentary Audience Award for most popular nonfiction film.
AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (USA), directed by Dan Stone, has won the VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award.
EIGHTEEN WINS VIFF DRAGONS & TIGERS AWARD FOR YOUNG CINEMA
The Festival has announced EIGHTEEN directed by JANG Kun-Jae of South Korea has won the 16th annual Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema and a cash prize of $10,000.
The Canadian Images jury has awarded a $2,000 cash award to directors Jan Binsse and David Tougas of Montreal for their film THE LAST ACT (Le dernier acte). The competition was open to first-time filmmakers.
65 Red Roses (Canada/BC) directed by Nimisha Mukerjee and Philip Lyall, won the NFB’s Most Popular Canadian Documentary award. And, Women in Film & Television Vancouver presented its Artistic Merit Award toNimisha Mukerji, co-director, producer and editor, and Gillian Lowry, co-producer, of 65 RED ROSES.
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION (USA), directed by Bill Guttentag, has won the Rogers People’s Choice Award. All of the festival’s 377 films – dramas and nonfiction, short, mid- and feature length – were eligible.
The audience chose FACING ALI (Canada/BC), directed by Pete McCormack for the second annual documentary Audience Award for most popular nonfiction film.
AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (USA), directed by Dan Stone, has won the VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award.
EIGHTEEN WINS VIFF DRAGONS & TIGERS AWARD FOR YOUNG CINEMA




An October 5th Interview with
W: With the level of craziness post 9/11 and especially after the election of a black president, was it tough to out-crazy present day politics?
Watching “Trash Humpers” might make the viewer think they’ve stumbled across some senior citizen’s snuff film. Shot and edited with a hand-held video camera, the actors wear grotesque old-age masks and makeup, hunched over and shuffling like crippled denizens of a retirement home. But any resemblance to the feeble and aged ends there. Clip after clip show these “ancient” vandals infiltrating suburban America to smash household items, sodomize vegetation, defecate, and of course hump trash cans. This is an anarchic celebration of destruction; the oldsters laughing and dancing in their mayhem, singing nursery rhymes of murder. A freak show of outrageous characters are visited, including a joined-at-the-head Siamese twin and transvestite poet, each spouting a sometimes hilarious monologue or a civilization-destroying rant. During a night time neighborhood drive one of the trash humpers remarks, “We choose to live like free people”, mocking the residents of the houses, soon to rise and prepare for work, as “A stupid way to live.” The makers of “Trash Humpers” reflect a grisly, distorted mirror on our terminal civilization, firing a big middle finger to the world and the audience.