Month: September 2015

Submissions for the 2016 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (#VIWIFF2016, March 8-13, 2016) and the International Screenplay Competition end October 15th, 2015. This six-day festival celebrates and promotes women working in screen-based media. It accepts films with women in at least three of these key creative roles: Writer, Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Composer, Lead Performer. Films completed after March …

  WIFTA Board of Director Laura Vinson, along with her band, Free Spirit, is nominated for Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year. Her album, Warrior, is up against folk legend Buffy Sainte Marie’s Polaris-shortlisted Power In The Blood, as well as artists from as far away as Iqaluit and Thunder Bay, Ont. Some of the songs on the “Warrior” album were …