- Dragons and Tigers Award
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VIFF Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema is an award from the Vancouver International Film Festival for a film director from Asia-Pacific region. It awards a creative and innovative film, made early in the director's career, which has not yet won significant international recognition. Since its inception in 1994, nominated films have been selected by film scholar and critic Tony Rayns.[1]
Tony Rayns also curates all non-Chinese language film featured in the Dragons and Tigers category. Chinese-language film scholar Shelly Kraicer also joined Dragons and Tigers as curator in 2007 for Chinese-language films.
Award winners
Year Film Director Country of origin 1994 This Window Is Yours Tomoyuki Furumaya Japan 1995 Goldfish Wu Di China Maborosi Koreeda Hirokazu Japan 1996 The Day a Pig Fell into the Well Hong Sang-soo South Korea Rain Clouds over Wushan Zhang Ming China 1997 Green Fish Lee Chang-dong South Korea 1998 Xiao Wu Jia Zhangke China/Hong Kong 1999 Nana/No-Go Hayakawa Wataru Japan 2000 Tears of the Black Tiger Wisit Sasanatieng Thailand 2001 Mirror Image Hsiao Ya-Chuan Taiwan 2002 Shanghai Panic Andrew Y-S Cheng China 2003 Uniform Diao Yi'nan China 2004 The Soup, One Morning Takahashi Izumi Japan 2005 Oxhide Liu Jiayin China 2006 Todo Todo Terros John Torres The Philippines 2007 Fujian Blue Weng Shouming China Mid-Afternoon Barks Zhang Yuedong China 2008 Perfect Life Emily Tang Hong Kong/China 2009 Eighteen Jang Kun-Jae South Korea 2010 Good Morning to the World! Hirohara Saturo Japan References
- ^ Thompson, Kristen & Bordwell, David (2006-10-07). "Observations on film art and Film Art". David Bordwell's Website on Cinema. http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=14. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
External links
- Awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival
Categories:- Canadian film awards
- Cinema of British Columbia
- Asian-Canadian film
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