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Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary

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The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle to the film judged by its members as the best Canadian documentary film of the year. It is separate from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary, presented to international documentary films.

Winners and nominees

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2010s

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Year Film Director Ref.
2012 The World Before Her Nisha Pahuja [1]
The End of Time Peter Mettler [2]
Stories We Tell Sarah Polley
2013 My Prairie Home Chelsea McMullan [3]
Oil Sands Karaoke Charles Wilkinson [4]
Watermark Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
2014 The Price We Pay Harold Crooks [5]
Everything Will Be Julia Kwan [6]
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Grant Baldwin
2015 Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World Charles Wilkinson [7]
Fractured Land Fiona Rayher, Damien Gillis [8]
How to Change the World Jerry Rothwell
Hurt Alan Zweig
2016 The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Brett Story [9]
After the Last River Victoria Lean [10]
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice Alanis Obomsawin
2017 Maison du Bonheur Sofia Bohdanowicz [11]
In the Waves Jacquelyn Mills [12]
A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse) Denis Côté
Unarmed Verses Charles Officer
2018 Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky [13]
The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs Bojan Bodružić [14]
What Is Democracy? Astra Taylor
2019 nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up Tasha Hubbard [15]
Because We Are Girls Baljit Sangra [16]
Danny Lewis Bennett, Aaron Zeghers

2020s

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Year Film Director Ref.
2020 The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan [17]
The Forbidden Reel Ariel Nasr [18]
The Magnitude of All Things Jennifer Abbott
2021 Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers [19]
The Last Tourist Tyson Sadler [20]
The Six Arthur Jones
2022 Eternal Spring Jason Loftus [21]
Black Ice Hubert Davis [22]
Dear Audrey Jeremiah Hayes
2023 Satan Wants You Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor [23]
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe Robert McCallum [24]
To Kill a Tiger Nisha Pahuja

References

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  1. ^ "Beyond the Black Rainbow, War Witch win at Vancouver critics awards". Playback, January 8, 2013.
  2. ^ "2013 VFCC Nominees Announced!". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 27, 2012.
  3. ^ "The Dirties cleans up in Vancouver; Film critics give top prizes to Matt Johnson, 12 Years a Slave". Edmonton Journal, January 9, 2014.
  4. ^ "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
  5. ^ "Tu dors Nicole and Mommy top Canadian winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". The Georgia Straight, January 6, 2015.
  6. ^ "2015 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2014.
  7. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Honour ‘Haida Gwaii’". Point of View, January 7, 2016.
  8. ^ "2016 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2015.
  9. ^ "Hello Destroyer wins big with VFCC". Playback, January 11, 2017.
  10. ^ "2017 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 16, 2016.
  11. ^ "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight, January 9, 2018.
  12. ^ "2018 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 15, 2017.
  13. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Circle names Edge of the Knife top Canadian feature film". Toronto Star, January 8, 2019.
  14. ^ Josh Cabrita, "2019 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2018.
  15. ^ "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'". Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
  16. ^ Adrian Mack, "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms". The Georgia Straight, December 13, 2019.
  17. ^ "VFCC Vote for Violation". Northern Stars, March 10, 2021.
  18. ^ Jorge Ignacio Castillo, "POSSESSOR AND CHAINED DOMINATE THE VFCC NOMINATIONS FOR BEST IN CANADIAN FILM". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, February 3, 2021.
  19. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun, March 8, 2022.
  20. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun, February 20, 2022.
  21. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Like I Like Movies". Northern Stars, February 14, 2023.
  22. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Announce Nominees". Northern Stars. January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
  23. ^ "VFCC Loves 'BlackBerry'". Northern Stars. February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  24. ^ Taimur Sikander Mirza, "BlackBerry, Seagrass lead VFCC’s Canadian nominees". Playback, January 23, 2024.
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