The Vancouver Badass Film Festival

The Sixth Annual International Vancouver Badass Film Festiva

Delightful Dapper Demon Mister Nickel ascends from Hades to speak the names of the Covid cancelled Sixth Annual International Vancouver Badass Film Festival 2020 Genre Film and Script Contest award winners whose show would have been tonight at the Rio. Ok, he missed one and the other podium finishing scripts (I’ll post a full list shortly, but I don’t want to steal his thunder) vbaff.com for more infoContest award winners whose show would have been tonight at the Rio.

Welcome

David Aboussafy

The directors of the Sixth Annual International Vancouver Badass Film Festival March 27-29 in East Vancouver are absolutely crushed to have to announce the cancelation of the 2020 festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with the March 12, 2020 BC public health recommendations.

Earlier bravado from B1-6 beloved host/performer characters Badass Val ( Tristan Risk) and Bad Mama Mack (Samantha Mack) aside, the recent “flattening the curve” data on mitigating the spread of the virus, coupled with the current horrifying experiences of our friends/colleagues in Northern Italy, make fully complying with the new BC Public Health recommendations on public gatherings a clear no-brainer. There is nothing more important or badass than doing everything we can to help mitigate the spread of a deadly pandemic.

Stay tuned for information on an online version of the 2020 Badass film and screenwriting awards. Filmmakers and screenwriters: your selection, finalist and nominations laurels and IMDb listable nominations and any subsequent awards are still absolutely valid AF. We are pleased to note that prize sponsors Whites are set to honour their 5k (feature) and 1K (script) in kind awards for the competition whose winners will be announced online on March 29.

Ticket buyers can be refunded at point of purchase / online. If able, consider donating your ticket costs to arts organizations/ artists hit hard economically by the pandemic or purchasing something delightful from the artists affiliated with the Badass fest.

Heartfelt thanks to everybody who had put so much hard work into making Badass 6 what would have been the biggest, best, community genre film festival yet.

David Aboussafy
Co-director, vbaff.com
&
Marc Boily
Co-director, vbaff.com

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Badass 6 preliminary schedule

Friday March 27th Commercial Drive Legion Lounge

Friday & Saturday March 27th-28th at Havana Theatre

Launch party at Commercial Drive Legion Lounge

( Party, DJ / VR, food, Badass 1-5 highlights screening, networking )

7:30pm to 1am open to filmmakers, press, & VIP fest pass holders

Opening party

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Friday & Saturday March 27th-28th at Havana Theatre

6pm Friday March 27th - Open for Submissions

8pm Friday March 27th - Beyond the Woods

6pm Saturday March 28 - 2030

8pm Saturday March 28 Badass 6 'Twisted Love' shorts program

10pm Saturday March 28 - Bullet Trip

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Saturday 28th at The Cultch

Sunday March 29 The Rio Theatre

4pm Saturday March 28 - Badass 6 Spooky Shorts and Filmmaker Panel

7pm Saturday March 28 - The Perished

9:30pm Saturday Mar 28 - Dead Dicks

w/ hosts and performances from Gidget

Gravedigger & Aleister Crane with the short: Girl in the Hallway.

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Sunday March 29 The Rio Theatre

3:30pm Sun March 29th - Jessie’s Super Normal Regular Average Day

5:30pm Sun Mar 29th - Harpoon

8pm – 11:55pm Sun March 29th - Badass 6 Gala Local shorts

with filmmakers and legendary genre awards show

hosted by Mister Nickel and Samantha Mack

with performances by Caravan of Curiosities

(f. Tristan Risk , Corporal Coppertop, and Burns the Dragon)

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