Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
The Vancouver International Film Festival's 2014 edition will run for two days beyond its scheduled Friday ending to allow for extra screenings of 25 films before the curtain finally falls on the film celebration.
The extra screenings are a tradition for the festival, which generally plans for extra showings beyond the declared end of screenings. Last year, screenings ran for six extra days after the official end of the festival.
But this year, organizers have settled on two days – a decision linked to cinema availability. Screenings will be held Saturday through Monday after the official Oct 10 ending of VIFF for 2014.
"Part of the reasoning for it is that the festival is so packed with films, there are some [films] people didn't have a chance to see," spokesman Curtis Woloschuk, a festival programmer, said Monday after organizers released the schedule of extra films.
He said that, in some cases, films connected with audiences early on, but were not available for audiences to catch up with after that initial buzz.
Films will be screened at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at Simon Fraser University as well as the Cinematheque and the VanCity Theatre. The extra screenings are taking place outside the official festival, so passes will not allow admission. All filmgoers will have to buy tickets.
Among the films getting additional screenings are the food-waste documentary Just Eat it: A Food Waste Story, which received the VIFF Impact Award at a weekend ceremony and Violent, a Norwegian-set drama by the drummer of the band We Are The City, that received awards for best Canadian film and best B.C. film at the festival.
Ian Bailey