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Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival

January 7, 2007 at 9:51 pm | In media, scenes_victoria | 2 Comments

The 13th annual Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival (VIFVF) runs this year from Feb.2-11. The organisers put the “My Victoria” short entries on YouTube. Of the 3 or 4 I’ve watched, I really liked Rachel Smyth’s ironically titled “My Victoria?” (Click the title to go straight to the video on YouTube.) This little movie has a story, it plays with being slightly obnoxious (the two teenage boys, chasing “Victoria,” each thinking that she is theirs — hence the question mark, perhaps), and has a surprise ending, too. Plus, you get some of the city’s tourist beauty spots, as well as easily identifiable shops (A&B Sound’s rabbit-warren-ry store exterior, with its “entrance” and “exit” doors is practically a co-star) and other mundane views. Nice work.