VIFF finally gets out a press release!; Short Ends
“In our 25th year, rather than reflecting on the past, the VIFF looks to the future with much curiosity and some degree of alarm,” Franey noted. “It seems like just yesterday that our 20th Anniversary festival took a look back at achievements of our first two decades. This season, in keeping with the dawn of year-round programming at the Vancity Theatre and with the forward-looking films that we are most excited to be programming, our emphasis is on where we are going. By where we are going, we mean where the world is going, for it's certain that the most interesting question encouraged by this year's festival selection is ‘what sort of world lies ahead?'”
Read the full press release HERE
(Rather odd that they mentioned the Granville 7 remaining the official Ground Zero for the festival but made no mention of Cinema #7 becoming the new VISA screening room.)
More Short Ends:
- In the same first media release, the VIFF has elected to roll out Mobile VIFF, which will "offer the potential to interact with other users, and allow Festival-goers to make informed decisions on films to attend, give an instant and democratic voice to those who wish to contribute and connect festival attendees in mobile space." An interesting idea, but I prefer the old-fashioned method of everybody disagreeing with everyone in the in-line and post screening hangouts at Ground Zero (Granville 7 area) rather than giving another excuse to turn on your Blackberry inside the cinema.
- Prior to the VIFF, if you feel like getting your Kieslowski freak-on (and I know I do), the Vancity Theatre as well as Pacific Cinematheque are planning to unearth pretty much everything the master has done. (And don't forget Cinematheque's late August Antonioni retrospective.) My goodness, this is going to be one expensive vacation.
- The Toronto Film Fest has put up their schedule, and thusly my head explodes.
- The previously mentioned Keane concert on 10/1 has been cancelled due to one of the band members deciding to go to Rehab. A friend and I were planning to see the show but decided to pull out since Ticketmaster elected to send us balcony seats instead of the orchestra tickets that I paid for. Either way, that's $50 back in my pocket.
- The weather for Vancouver is holding between "sunny" and "mainly sunny" with warm temperatures for the next few weeks. Are we going to have a warm, sunny VIFF this year?
Jason
efilmcritic.com
posted by Jason Whyte @ 10:45 AM
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