Vancouver International Women in Film Festival

Women in Film and TV Vancouverannounced their most diverse programme ever for the 8^th Annual Vancouver International Women In Film Festival with a selection of international, Canadian and local films.  Highlights include three World Premieres:

• The feature Little Black Spiders (Belgium) Director: Antonino Lombardo.  Based on a true story set in a hospital attic where pregnant teenage girls wait to have their babies in secret.
• The ShortA Broken Tear (Lebanon) Director: Krystle Houiess.  A moving coming of age story about a blossoming young love remembered through shattered memories repeated in a spiral caused by Alzheimer’s.
• The local short The Stolen (BC) Director: Karen Lam.  A haunting short film about a young girl who frees a boy from the clutches of her bullying brother.

Another highlight is the locally produced Vancouverpremiere ofSilent Music (USA).Directed by Melissa Gomez, the feature documentary follows a hearing daughter of deaf parents who live in the Caribbeanparadise of Antigua.

For more information and tickets, visit www.womeninfilm.ca