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🍁Longest running Asian film festival in Canada
🎉Celebrating diversity in film
🎥 #VAFFIndustry May-Nov
🗓️ #MAMM21: Aug. 29
📆#VAFF30: Nov. 5-15, 2026

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Meet the official #VAFF Delegates attending the EXNW East by Northwest 2026 this year.
✨ Shanthini Balasubramanian, Writer, Director, and Compositor
✨ Shubham Chhabra, Director, Writer
✨ Sina Nazarian, Director, Producer, and DGC Assistant Director
✨ Zahida Rahemtulla, Director, Writer, Playwright
lead by 💜 Regina Leung, Director of VAFF Industry, Producer

🌍 Where global stories and next-gen voices meet.
Join two days of conversation, connection, and creative energy where everyone comes together to celebrate the amazing storytellers across film, TV, streaming, gaming, animation, and digital media.

Click the link to get your tickets.
🎟️ Summit passes + Ball tickets available
📍 Westin Bayshore, Vancouver
🗓️ July 24–26, 2026
🎟️ Tickets at: exnw.org/tickets
Let’s build the future of entertainment — together.
#RESO #EXNWSummit #VAFFIndustry #FilmIndustry GlobalStorytelling by @vaffvancouver

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📣 Calling for passionate volunteers to join VAFFamily !! 🩵

We are seeking for "Seasonal Committee Team Volunteer" to join us in supporting Festival, MAMM, Industry team.
- Festival Programing Coordinator
- Festival General Programmer
- MAMM Creative Producer
- Social Media Specialist
- Community Outreach Lead
- Sponsorship Lead
- Industry Program Lead
and more..

Learn more at volunteering, link at BIO
#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #MAMM #VAFFIndustry #VAFF
#happyfamilymoments❤️ by @vaffvancouver

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We are halfway through our 30-week countdown to #VAFF30! Just last year, in 2025, #VAFF29 embraced the theme “Beyond Asian,” highlighting distinctive Asian filmmakers who push creative boundaries and express new and visionary stories!

Do you remember seeing these films?

1. After What Happened at the Library (2025)
Director: Syra MaCarthy/Kyle Casey Chu

2. Ahon (2025)
Director: Trixie Pacis

3. Ice Cream, Ice Queen (2025)
Director: Jeremy Tianyu Chi

4. Spring After Spring (2025)
Director: John Chiang

5. Weeping Fig (2025)
Director: Sohee Hong

6. Akashi (2025)
Director: Mayumi Yoshida

Share your fond memories of any of the past 29 #VAFF with us!

#FilmFestival #Vancouver #DiversityInFilm #Throwback by @vaffvancouver

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#CommunityPartner news 📍
EXNW Summit @exnwsummit hosted by @resoorg is a cutting-edge Global three day Summit that aims to empower creators from diverse backgrounds.

Join three days of conversation, connection, and creative energy where everyone comes together to celebrate the amazing storytellers across film, TV, streaming, gaming, animation, and digital media.

🎟️ Summit passes + Ball tickets available
📍 Westin Bayshore, Vancouver
🗓️ July 24–26, 2026
🎟️ exnw.org/tickets Click the link to get your tickets.
#EXNW2026 #CreativeCommunity #GlobalStorytelling #InclusiveStorytelling by @vaffvancouver

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Best price for our all-access Premier Festival Pass! The Super Super Early Bird rate ends on July 26 at midnight.

What do we mean by all-access? The Premier Festival Pass includes admission to all of the in-theatre screenings, virtual screenings, VAFF Industry Insight Series events and all of the special events during #VAFF30 between November 5-15, 2026. It's valued at $595 and you can get it for $200 until July 26!

Get yours now - LINK IN BIO 🔗

#VAFF #VAFFIndustry #MAMM21 #filmfestival #Vancouver #earlybird #DiversityinFilm #ThingstodoinVancouver by @vaffvancouver

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Who remembers the films we screened in 2004?

Continuing our 30-week countdown to #VAFF30 -- For the first time since VAFF’s inception, panel discussions were introduced in 2004 alongside program screenings. The two panels respectively discussed the representation of the male image and stereotyping of the female image in film. The panel discussions aimed to educate the public at large as well as open up a wider opportunity for discourse among Asian filmmakers and the Asian community.

Share your fond memories of any of the past 29 #VAFF with us!

#FilmFestival #Vancouver #DiversityInFilm #Throwback by @vaffvancouver

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👉 We’re pointing you toward 19 teams, 10 days, and a whole lot of filmmaking. Welcome to #MAMM21!

We’re ready to cheer on our finalists and support them throughout the competition. 🎬

Not pictured, but very much part of the team: Regina, Tammy, and Justin 💛

@alwaysmisscheerful Lynne Lee (MAMM Director & Producer)
@reginaunplugged Regina Leung (Director of VAFF Industry)
@shanthini.bala Shanthini Balasubramanian (Creative Producer)
@ritishajhambb Ritisha Jhamb (Creative Producer)
@tammytsangfilm Tammy Tsang (Creative Producer)

@justin.f.lee Justin Lee (Verticals Producer)
@stevenslyfe Steven Hu (Verticals Producer)

@eunbyblue Eunice Kang (MAMM Admin)
@amitdhuga Amit Dhuga (MAMM Equipment Liaison)

📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i
🎨 Creative Director: @vincewongconnect

#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @vaffvancouver

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📄 Get ready for a story folded with heart!

🎉Introducing Team Domi Domi Productions
#MAMM21 Ten Minute Shorts Finalist

🎬Film: Crooked Wings
🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @soniachouu

Logline: An origami teacher who was raised to believe love must be earned through perfection, learns from a carefree student that beauty lives in imperfection.

Sonia Chou is a Taiwanese filmmaker based in Vancouver and a Vancouver Film School graduate. Passionate about intimate, character-driven stories, she explores family, identity, and self-acceptance through gentle, visually expressive filmmaking.

📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i
🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect

#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @vaffvancouver

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🥁 The drumroll begins now. Are you ready?

🎉Introducing Team Long
#MAMM21 Ten Minute Shorts Finalist

🎬Film: Flourish
🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @li.an.ne.send_halp @chlxris_ @L_guo.on.set

Logline: Will Anna make her mark and surpass her sister's legacy? The closing chapter of an ambitious cadet drum major hinges on a specific make-or-break moment - the Provincial Band Competition.

Lianne Guo is a writer and director based in Burnaby. As a second-generation Chinese Canadian, she grounds her stories in personal experiences, using filmmaking as a process of self-discovery. Currently, Lianne is studying Film at Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts.

📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i
🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect

#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @vaffvancouver

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💃 Keep an eye out. The dancing might be contagious!

🎉Introducing Team Meat Cookie
#MAMM21 One Minute Ultra Shorts Finalist

🎬Film: Boogie Fever
🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @emmaeng44

Logline: In Boogie Fever, a surreal dark comedy, a young Chinese-Canadian girl just can't stop dancing, and her friends are starting to worry that it's contagious.

Emma Eng is a writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver. She holds a BFA in Film Production from UBC. Her dark comedy short Black & Blue won the Student ShortWork Award at the Whistler Film Festival, and her recent short Honey Honey is currently doing its little festival run. She loves her friends, Jeopardy!, and a wine cooler in the park (now that it’s legal).

📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i
🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect

#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @vaffvancouver

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🎭 Are you ready for a role that could cost her identity?

🎉Introducing Team YOUTOPIA
#MAMM21 Ten Minute Shorts Finalist

🎬Film: YOUTOPIA
🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @its_jun____

Logline: A struggling immigrant actress accepts a high-stakes role with no script—only the ""settings"" of a socialite’s deceased daughter. As she reconstructs the dead girl from her own flesh and blood, she discovers that a paradise built on someone else’s parameters is a utopia where her own soul is the first thing to be deleted.

SangJun Lee (Jun Lee) is a Vancouver-based 1st Assistant Editor, and Vancouver Film School alumnus. Leveraging his extensive technical expertise, Jun steps into the director's chair for MAMM21. His psychological thriller, YOUTOPIA, dissects the unsettling mechanics of identity erasure and immigrant survival, bringing a cold, clinical suspense and raw emotional tension to the screen.

📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i
🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect

#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @vaffvancouver

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🦷 Hold on to your teeth. Are you ready for this one?

🎉Introducing Team MAMMolars
#MAMM21 One Minute Ultra Shorts Finalist

🎬Film: The Teething Hour
🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @xehlena

Logline: As the tooth fairy (now a mouse) comes to collect a child’s lost tooth, it is unexpectedly captured by a mysterious aswang, the true figure behind whose really taking our teeth.

Xelena is a Filipino storyteller with a background in student theatre and film productions. Although she typically works in the art department, she has grown to love writing, directing, and producing--especially for genre-bending body horror. If you ask 'why teeth?' for this project, she'll attribute it to having lost too many teeth (all baby, four wisdom, four adult) over her lifetime.

📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i
🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect

#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @vaffvancouver

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