Festival Celebrating our current Gold Age of Television. Held at the historic Vernon Towne Cinema, operating since 1929.
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Just finished our first day of programming blocks, which we throughly enjoyed. Closing off the night with a screening of the campy genre classic Evil Dead.
The fest schedule is now up! Thanks to some great sponsors, we will be able to provide the programming for free.
Buy some popcorn and support the great historic venue that has been our host since the start.
Vernon Towne Theatre
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Final deadline approaching! Some great submissions so far... judging panel is hard at work viewing the submitted entries!
Submissions for this year’s edition are now open!
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All award nominees and winners have now been notified.
A great slate of films, and enjoyable screenings! With Covid restrictions mostly lifted we were able to have some film makers attend this years events.
Award nominees and winners for 2021 festival
The first award announcent of the year:
Nominations for Best Factual:
Hidden Pockets
Refugee Blues
Why We Write: Poets of Vernon
The winner is:
Why We Write: Poets of Vernon
2nd day wrapped in the festival!
Had a lot of fun with the The 501st Legion folks coming out to help celebrate our Star Wars fan film programming block. The kids (and a certain 50 year old festival programming director who will remain unnamed) loved getting their photos taken with Darth Vader and friends!
Thanks to the historic and very haunted Vernon Towne Theatre for hosting our festival again this year!
Some great entries for this year’s festival edition!
If you didn't think you needed a Star Wars AND Indiana Jones film put together... you were WRONG!
Just amazing on the big screen!
**STAR WARS ORIGINS - FULL TRAILER**The saga you know.... the origins you don't....Watch the FULL FILM here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVSox0qApO4&feat...
T minus 3 days until the start of the festival!
As a thank you to our local community we are making all the tickets free for the weekend!
They can be reserved at
Official selections have been made and the rush of technical work is underway receiving film files and creating DCPs for the theatrical screening.
Getting the official selections finalIzed over the next few days.
Locked down our “Fan Film” block of films and it is is ridiculously good! Remarkable production values, great writing, great performances.
Final judging underway for this year’s edition!
This is the time the judging panel go toe to toe championing their favourites and whittling down some great entries to the final ones that will be screened.
Only 3 days to our regular deadline for this year’s edition!
Submit your entry today!
We are currently in the golden age of television, with episodic content drawing the biggest stars and telling the most compelling stories. Thousands of cabl...
Congratulations to Geoff and the Ninja for their two wins!
They were present to accept their trophies from our programming director Robyn during a live screening at the historic Vernon Towne Theatre.
(Ok, the etched glass trophies apparently don’t show up well in photos… but they are quite lovely!)
Festival screenings starting today!
In case you were wondering what the life of a Programming Director looks like just before a festival... this is one of ours who made the incredibly poor decision to do some last minute screen testing of our "After Dark" Horror/Thriller block all alone at 3am in the dark at an almost 100 year old theatre that is reportedly haunted and featured on several paranormal activity TV shows.
It is our understanding that he slept the rest of the night with the lights on.... good job creeping him out film-makers!
Folks might want to come see this set of films late tonight if they enjoy being scared (at least more than our poor volunteer here).
The trophies for select awards are in and look great!
We have also finally heard from our local public health authority and have successfully been permitted to have 50% capacity in the venue (185 people), instead of the 50 people we were going to be previously permitted.
That means we can put the tickets online for sale, keep an eye out for the the post and link in the next couple of days!
The final winner is Best of the Fest!
The Winner is....
Anomalie Le Film
Runners Up:
Zealandia Short Film
Moment - short film
The Winner of Best Actor is:
Sion Tudor Owen - Home
Runners Up:
David Doukhan - Transfert
Stephen Plunkett - Stormchaser
The Winner of Best Actress is:
Stephanie Barkley - Alone
Runners Up:
Julia Silaeva - I Love Eve
Alex Kapila - Peter the Penguin
Honourable Mention:
Laura Bayston - Hungry Joe - Short Film
The Winner of Best Ensemble is:
Stormchaser
Runner Up:
Timberwood
The Winner of Best TV Pilot is:
Timberwood
Runner Up:
Into the Ring
The Winner of Best of British Columbia is:
Geoff and the Ninja
Runners Up:
Sadika's garden
Stood Up
Askem Productions
The Winner of Best Animation is:
Maestro
Runner Up is:
Om Nom Nom
Winners of Best Canadian Submission:
Moment - short film
Runner Up:
Pepperfilm
The Winner of Best Editing is:
Absence
Runner Up:
Every Corner
Prankster's Ink Productions
The Winner of Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy:
Alone
Runners Up:
Moment - short film
Anomalie Le Film
The Winner of Best Teaser/Trailer:
Robert the Robot
Runner Up:
The Last Wolves
The Winner of Best Music Video:
Dormo Poco e Sogno Molto - Espana Circo
Runner Up:
Matt Dusk - "Summer Wind"
The Winner of Best After Dark Program:
Ouzo and Blackcurrant !!
Runners Up:
Hungry Joe - Short Film
I Love Eve
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Our next Official Selection trailer is the Swedish thriller "Fear of the Woods" (Warning, some NSFW language)
Another great trailer for an Official Selection in the Sci-Fi category ! "Times Down"
The trailer for one of our wonderful documentary films. "Collecting Time" about one man's passion for cinema and his world record collection of cameras and projectors.
Today we get our first trailer from the Documentary/Factual category. A simply beautiful film "Song for the Beloved"
A great trailer for Zealandia from our Sci-Fi programming block. Written and filmed pre-Covid!
The trailer for a great submission in our "After Dark" category. The short film "Frank and Mary". We aren't able to show a lot of trailers in this category due to the nature of the content... but this one is safe for work! Evil Hypnotist Productions
Another great trailer from our Sci-Fi block, showcasing the significant international participation in the festival! Ryoko's Qubit Summer! Yuichi Kondo
We have started getting the files for our Official Selections! We will be sharing trailers over the comings weeks for you to enjoy. First up is one of our Sci-Fi block entries, the short film Aral. ARTFX
