Vancouver Indie Film Festival is a live festival dedicated to short and feature films. The festival’s mission is to bring selected films to the limelight of an authentic audience and to be evaluated by professional critics. At the same time, we hope to allow viewers to enjoy an eclectic range of films they would never see elsewhere.

Being part of our official selection is an asset to the film, but we hope it also paves the way for other benefits, like winning prizes and getting your name out there. To participate in the event, first, you must choose one or more categories and submit your film. Then, the jury members watch the movie and select the semi-finalist films. Then we notify the semi-finalist filmmakers via email. After that, the jury members watch the selected semi-finalist short films again and decide the winners in each category. Then we publish the list of winners and notify the directors by e-mail. In the next step, the lists of the winners will be posted on social media and our dedicated website. A few of the winners’ projects will be then considered for the live event.