Each year for most of the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, the prestigious, heavily juried and much smaller New York Film Festival kicks off on the same date as VIFF, creating something of a logistical problem for the print traffic folks at Vancouver’s film festival (and New York’s, as well), arising from the fact that the respective film festivals generally share 15+ films (out of a total of 30) — as is the case again this year — and the logistics of transporting the one-and-only “print” of the film back and forth can be, and has often proved to be, something of a terrible, pull-your-hair-out nightmare for the print traffic folks at both film festivals.
Still and all, somehow both VIFF and the good folks at the NYFF each year manage to “exchange” films without a glitch.
As above, this year there are a record number of films screening at both VIFF 2018 and NYFF56, 21 in total, far more than in any previous year.
In 2018, the films VIFF 2018 and the NYFF56 will exchange (all of these films will screen at both the New York & the Vancouver film festivals) …
