The Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 LiUNA People’s Choice Award is Irena’s Vow, directed by Louise Archambault. This is Archambault’s second People’s Choice Award — she won in 2013 for her film Gabrielle. Archambault is also the first filmmaker to have two films nominated for the WIFF Prize in Canadian Film in the same year — Irena’s Vow and One Summer.
To celebrate the audience favourite, WIFF hosted a complimentary community screening of Irena’s Vow on Sunday, November 5 at 6 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre.
The runner up and second runner up for the LiUNA People’s Choice Award are American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson and My Mother’s Men directed by Anik Jean, respectively.
Past winners of the award include: Women Talking directed by Sarah Polley (2022); Prey directed by Matt Gallagher (2019); The Russian Five directed by Joshua Rhiel (2018); Loving Vincent directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (2017); Maudie directed by Aisling Walsh (2016); Trumbo directed by Jay Roach (2015); and more.
“Louise Archambault’s films have always been loved by WIFF audiences, and we are so pleased to see the LiUNA People’s Choice award going to her this year,” said Vincent Georgie, Executive Director and Chief Programmer for WIFF.
WIFF took place from October 26 to November 5. The 2023 festival is proudly presented by the Toldo Foundation.
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