Visions Ouest Productions/Rendez-Vous French Film Festival
Visions Ouest Productions is a nonprofit organization founded in 1994, with the goal of providing the French-speaking and the Francophile communities of British Columbia with artistic, cultural, and educational programs and services.
Visions Ouest puts the emphasis on high-quality and innovative works that enrich and enhance the thriving francophone community here.
The society is best-known for producing the Rendez-Vous French Film Festival each year. The event provides an opportunity for British Columbians to enjoy a rare look at award-winning francophone films from Canada and the international scene. The biggest French-focused movie event in Western Canada, it aims to celebrate high-quality Canadian productions and to encourage viewers to discover the talent of this country’s artists. All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise indicated.
Amid Visions Ouest Productions’ other community offerings are Schools Matinées and Circus Camps. For the schools program, presented in partnership with BC Parents For French, subtitled movies from the International Francophonie (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa) encourage both the language and cultural curiosity in kids. Circus training workshops, meanwhile, are offered in French and English to groups of students or children in summer camps and other settings. Weekly summer- and spring-break classes feature acrobatics, tightrope walking, juggling, unicycling, and more, all taught by one of the original founders of Cirque du Soleil, Benoit Ranger (Transporteurs de Rêves).
The 30th Edition of the festival will take place in February & March 2024, in theater and online on the Eventive platform. The online screenings are geo-blocked to Canada and some films are available for international audiences. See www.rendez-vousvancouver.com for more information.
Visions Ouest Productions (VOP) thanks, among all partners, Alliance française de Vancouver, Patrimoine canadien, Bureau du Québec, Gouvernement de la C.-B., Telefilm Canada, ONF, LaSource, STIR, SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs, SFU-BAFF, Ville de Vancouver, Canadian Parents For French, Vancouver Foreign Film Society, Cinemania Festival, Vues d’Afrique, community partners, etc.
Visions Ouest Productions is proud to be part of LA CONCORDE FRANCOPHONE.
