VIFF Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema was an award from the

Vancouver International Film Festival The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October. The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Fest ...

for a

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

from the Asia-Pacific region. Presented to a film judged as the best film by an emerging director within the festival's Dragons and Tigers program for Asian cinema,"VIFF announces films for Dragons & Tigers, award nominees"
'' Playback'', September 8, 2010. it awarded a creative and innovative film, made early in the director's career, which had not yet won significant international recognition. First created in 1994, the award was discontinued after 2013. It was replaced with a general Best New Director Award, open to all emerging international filmmakers with films screening in any festival program."VIFF's Dragons and Tigers series established Vancouver as cinematic Gateway to Asia"
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'', September 29, 2017. Nominated films were selected by film scholar and critic

Tony Rayns Antony Rayns (born 1948) is a British writer, commentator, film festival programmer and screenwriter. He wrote for the underground publication ''Cinema Rising'' (its name inspired by Kenneth Anger's '' Scorpio Rising'') before contributing to ...

Award winners

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Awards
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