BEST MOTION PICTURE
The Devout — 14 nominations. – WINNER.
A crisis of faith drama about reincarnation. Writer/director Connor Gaston’s feature debut tells the story of a Christian teacher (Charlie Carrick) obsessively trying to determine whether his terminally ill daughter (Olivia Martin) had a past life as an astronaut as she claims. In doing so he experiences a crisis of faith and risks ruining his marriage.
Cast of @TheDevoutMovie on the #VIFF #RedCarpet pic.twitter.com/rfaPwDOon0
— Vancouver Film Fest (@VIFFest) September 9, 2015
Numb 12 nominations.
The only thing more blinding than snow . . . is greed.
Jason Goode’s first feature film Numb is the closing gala screening at the 15th annual Whistler Film Festival next Sunday. Shot in the Okanagan Valley for 18 days this year from mid-February to early March, the survival thriller is about a debt-strapped Vancouver couple who team up with sibling hitchhikers to search for stolen gold in the winter wilderness. Recently unemployed Will (Jamie Bamber) picks up hitchikers Lee (Aleks Paunovic) and Cheryl (The 100’s Maria Avgeropoulos) in northern BC to his wife Dawn (Stefanie von Pfetten)’s dismay. When Will’s next pickup dies with GPS coordinates in his wallet the gold hunt is on. Turns out the elderly man was a bank robber and the coordinates should lead them to $4 million in gold he’d stashed nearby that was never recovered by the police. What could go wrong?
iPhone pic. Just another day on the job with @ImJamieBamber @numb_movie pic.twitter.com/0XfS13qegw
— Steve Deneault (@NevetsNed) March 10, 2015
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The Birdwatcher 9 nominations.
She Who Must Burn. 8 nominations.
Charlotte’s Song . 6 nominations.
Her story begins where the fairy tale ends. Director Nicholas Humphries reimagines The Little Mermaid as a siren in the Dirty Thirties. In a sinister retelling, a y0ung girl with a special gift (Katelyn Mager) falls prey to a mob boss (Iwan Rheon) in the Dust Bowl of the North American prairies.
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Producers @jessicabojin@lindzmann from @Charlottes_Song w/director Nicholas Humphries and star Katelyn Mager #VIFFpic.twitter.com/4DJf8PtpEm
— Vancouver Film Fest (@VIFFest) September 9, 2015
No Men Beyond This Point – 6 nominations.
What would the world be like if women were in charge? Men are on the verge of extinction in this mockumentary from Vancouver writer/director Mark Sawers. In an alternate history to our own, women have been able to reproduce without men since 1953 and over time stop giving birth to male babies altogether. That makes Andrew Myers (Patrick Gilmore) the youngest man in the world at age 37. He works quietly for Terra (Tara Pratt) and Iris (Kristine Cofsky) and their all-female family in West Vancouver until his affair with Iris puts him in the media spotlight. Is Andrew key to men’s bid for survival?