Three world premieres from the National Film Board of Canada's BC and Yukon Studio in Vancouver will be headlining a powerful selection of NFB documentary, animated and VR storytelling at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).
A total of eight NFB works will be presented at VIFF, which takes place September 29 through October 9.
Festival goers will be the first to see these three Vancouver productions:
- The feature-length documentary Lay Down Your Heart, directed by Métis Dene filmmaker Marie Clements, co-written with Niall McNeil;
- Unarchived, a feature doc by Vancouver-based directors Hayley Gray and Elad Tzadok;
- Zeb's Spider, an animated short written anddirected by Montreal's Alicia Eisen and Vancouver's Sophie Jarvis, with animation by Alicia Eisen.
Four more NFB productions will be making their BC premieres at VIFF:
- Vancouver filmmaker lori lozinski's deeply personal short doc A Motorcycle Saved My Life;
- The feature-length music and cinema experience Ever Deadly by avant-garde Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq and Toronto director Chelsea McMullan;
- The Flying Sailor, an animated short by the Calgary duo of Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis;
- Heartbeat of a Nation, a short doc by Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation director Eric Janvier.
Signals: Presented by VIFF + DigiBC will feature the Vancouver premiere of This Is Not a Ceremony by Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon), who lives on Westbank First Nation lands in West Kelowna.
World premieres
Lay Down Your Heart, directed by Marie Clements; written by Marie Clements and Niall McNeil (70 min)
Produced by Shirley Vercruysse for the BC and Yukon Studio in Vancouver
