Vancouver Badass Film Festival

Very fun festival to've been a part of. Hope to see the VIFF screenings grow in the coming years, but the Rio screenings a guaranteed riot every time.

Excellent festival run by very engaged local filmmakers. They go above and beyond to showcase talent in here in Vancouver and far beyond. It was a pleasure to watch the films programmed and the talent hired to make it all happen.

Fantastic festival! Good chance to meet other filmmakers as well as folks from Generativity Productions and Darkside Releasing. Opening night and closing nights are a blast. And the fringe movies were fabulous. Well worth the submission fee and plane ticket.

This was my first time submitting to VBFF. It was a really great experience. They curated an amazing selection of films and that made me all the more proud to have been selected. They packed a lot into the weekend and my only regret is that the awards went so late I had to leave before it the final screenings which started at midnight after the awards.
I got a free pass to the whole festival as a screenplay finalist and bought a really cool hoody which I love and can tell I'm probably going to wind up wearing it too often.
My only suggestion for improvement would be to encourage more networking through scheduled social events that don't compete with screenings. I did manage to meet a few really cool people and in fact made good connections with another screenwriter finalist and she wound up taking 1st place and I took 2nd, so that was cool.
The thing I loved the most is that you could tell there was a really tight community supporting each other around genre films in Vancouver, but I never was made to feel like an outsider coming from the USA. Great work everyone!

This festival is one of a kind. It's audience driven. It has live performances. It's a great time. I am very happy to that i was invited to take part in the festival. I attended and was immersed in a one of a kind experience that left me wanting more.