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Caleb and Brian ChanSOCAN 2024 Breakout Composer Award CHANSOUNDS.COM Caleb and Brian Chan, a talented brother duo from Canada, are making waves in the music industry. Their unique blend of traditional orchestration and modern sounds has earned them recognition and […]

A Cápsula (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ON APPLE MUSIC ON SPOTIFY A Minimalist Work Within a Capsule of Time. The most recent soundtrack by VPA composer André Luiz Machado for the Brazilian cinema is out now on all major music streaming platforms.  […]

Congratulations to our members nominated for LEOs! LEO AWARDS WEBSITE Leo Award nominations are out! Congratulations to the VPA members acknowledged for their craftsmanship and talent (and apologies to any nominations we may have missed).  BEST PICTURE EDITING, MOTION PICTURE […]

Congratulations Cindy Au Yeung & Team! WATCH ON TUBI VPA Member Cindy Au Yeung has produced and edited a stand-up comedy series called Comedy Invasion, created and directed by Quentin Lee. One of its episodes called “Rez Style” featuring Keith […]

Congratulations to our members nominated for Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE) Awards: CCE AWARDS WEBSITE & TICKETS Greg Ng, CCE  –  I’M JUST HERE FOR THE RIOT Justin Li – LUCKY HANK: Ep 105 – THE CLOCK Gordon Rempel, CCE – MONSTER […]

Winter Spring Summer or Fall will makes its World Premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival on June 6th. GET TICKETS AT TRIBECA WEBSITE Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White star in this sweet teen love story about a Harvard-bound […]

dbc sound inc Receives Emmy Stream on Paramount Plus dbc sound inc won a Children & Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing and Sound Editing For A Live Action Program on Are You Afraid of the Dark, Season 3. […]

Matthew O’Connor’s first feature film score at Slamdance Visit the Film’s Website Feature film Good Bad Things has been awarded a Grand Jury “Unstoppable” Award at the Slamdance Film Festival. The film features VPA Member Matthew O’Connor‘s first feature film […]

Love Me premieres at Sundance With the assistance of the Dolby Institute Fellowship, Love Me was mixed in theatrical Atmos at Maverick Post Group by VPA Board member Gregor Phillips. VPA Members & friends who worked on LOVE ME: Matt Drake … […]

Sophian Alkurdi Releases Album On Bandcamp VPA Member Sophian Alkurdi released his new album Hey! That’s a guitar! on November 17th. It is a remarkable instrumental acoustic guitar album, featuring 10 tracks (8 compositions and 2 covers) where he plays acoustic guitars, […]

Monster High: The Movie Now Streaming on Paramount+ 6 NOMINATIONS IN THE SECOND ANNUALCHILDREN’S & FAMILY EMMY® AWARDS VPA Corporate Member and Re-Recording Mixer Miguel Nunes and the team at Maverick Post Group have been included in the Best Sound Mixing and Sound Editing category. […]

VPA Members Working in VR / AR VPA Professional member and Picture Editor Cindy Au Yeung directed a VR animated short film, Echoes of Chinatown: A Walk with Goong Goong, combined with an AR projection, that was featured in Signals, an […]

Kye Meechan has been nominated for a DGC Award! See the full list of nominees here Awards in this category will be presented on October 21st Brother, a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story set in the early 90s hip hop scene […]

VPA members Caleb Chan and Brian Chan have received 3 nominations! See the full list of nominees here The awards ceremony will take place October 26 in Toronto The list of nominations for the 2023 Canadian Screen Music Awards (CASMAs), presented by the […]

Accepted has been nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy! See the full list of nominees here! Awards in this category to be presented on September 28th   VPA Associate Member Jesse Einstein has been nominated for an Emmy in […]

The 2023 Leo Award Winners! Click here for a full list of all the winners Congratulations to our Leo Award Winners! We are thrilled to celebrate the incredible talent and skill our members bring to each production.   The VPA members […]

Vancouver represents at the 2023 ASCAP Screen Awards Two of Vancouver’s very talented composers Hamish Thomson and Matthew Rogers were honored last month in West Hollywood with an ASCAP screen music award for their work on the very popular (and […]

The 2023 Leo Award Nominations are in! Click here for a full list of the nominees We are very proud to announce the staggering number of Leo award nominations our members have picked up this year, being recognized for their […]

Run Stack Overflow Experimental short gets its world premiere at AmDocs! Shout out to VPA professional member Patrick Carroll for the world premiere of his experimental short documentary entitled “Run Stack Overflow” at the AmDocs Festival in Palm Springs. A […]

2023 CCE AWARD NOMINATIONS See the full List Here! Award Winners will be announced on May 25th! The 13th Annual Canadian Cinema Editors Award nominations are out, and we’ve got many talented VPA members recognized for their invaluable contributions in […]

Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival Awards The sound team, comprised mostly of VPA Professional and Corporate Members, won the Best Sound Design award from the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival for their work on  the short film Where […]

CUT TO THE POINT: Interview with Richard Schwadel Check out this terrific interview by “Cut to the Point” with Picture Editor Richard Schwadel and his work on the now airing AMC+ series Lucky Hank starring Bob Odenkirk.  Richard’s insights and […]

2023 CSA AWARD NOMINATIONS See the full List Here! Award Winners will be announced across four days from April 11th – 14th The Canadian Screen Award nominations are out, and we are excited to announce that three of the VPA’s […]

2023 BFE “CUT ABOVE” AWARD WINNER! Watch LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS on Netflix Award Winners were announced on Feb 24th VPA Professional member and Picture Editor Sabrina Pitre has picked up a BFE Award in the category of Best Editing […]

2023 BFE “CUT ABOVE” AWARDS Watch LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS on Netflix Award Winners will be announced Feb 24th! VPA Professional member and Picture Editor Sabrina Pitre has been nominated in the category of Best Editing in an Animated Series, […]

BIPOC Credits Podcast Features Buket Biles! BIPOC Credits released their latest episode of BIPOC Credits Podcast  on October 25th, featuring the very kind and amazingly talented Post Coordinator/Post Supervisor and VPA Board member, Buket Biles.   Have a listen to the […]

Greg Ng wins Best Editor award at VAFF! Picture Editor Extraordinaire, and VPA Professional Member Greg Ng received the “Best Editor Award” for his work on The Grizzlie Truth at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival OVAsian Gala with Board Member […]

2022 DGC BC Director’s Showcase The world premiere of DGC-BC’s Greenlight winning project Been Better, Actually took place on November 19th at the VanCity Theatre with the participation of the cast and crew followed by a lively Q&A session. Congratulations […]

SOCAN Emerging Screen Composer Awards Congratulations to VPA Professional Member Amanda Cawley for her two “Honorable Mentions” in this year’s prestigious SOCAN Emerging Screen Composer Awards for her work on the documentary Ageless Gardens – Sacred Spaces. The award spotlights Canadian […]

VIFF AMP 2022 Composers Spotlight Caleb Chan and Brian Chan will be appearing on two panels for this year’s VIFF Amp Festival (Oct 6-9), discussing their careers as composers and their work on their new series for Sony TV, Panhandle. […]

VPA members garner noms and a win @ CASMA The Screen Composers Guild of Canada’s first annual Canadian Screen Music Awards took place just this past Wednesday, on September 21st, in Toronto.  Congratulations Steffan Andrews for winning Best Original Score […]

Music Supervisor, Natasha Duprey, wins big! The Canadian Sync Awards took place on Thursday, June 9, 2022.  It celebrates the craft of music supervision in filmed media in Canada with the presentation of 14 awards, as voted by the public […]

The Chan Brothers are featured speakers at this year’s summit! VIFF Amp Music in Film Summit just released its panelist for 2022 and VPA composers Caleb Chan and Brian Chan have been announced as two of its speakers!  This summit […]

Congrats to our Leo Award Winners! The 2022 Leo awards were held over three nights between July 5 and 9. The awards for picture editing, musical score, visual effects and sound categories (among others) were held on Nights 1 & […]

Lisa Robison at Tribeca! Lisa Robison, a well established picture editor in Vancouver, recently was in New York at the Tribeca Film Festival for the world premiere of the feature film, American Dreamer.  Lisa was the Picture Editor on the […]

Congrats to our Leo Award Nominees! The 2022 Leo awards are just around the corner and we are pleased to announce that many of our members have been nominated this year!  We are very excited for these nominees to be […]

A major Brazilian feature film, scored by our very own Professional member André Luiz Machado, will be having its big theatrical release in Brazil next month! “As Verdades” (The Truths) is directed by José Eduardo Belmonte, one of the most […]

The VPA would like to congratulate those members who have been nominated for Canadian Cinema Editors awards for their outstanding work in Picture Editing! The nominees representing the West Coast are: Best Editing in Web SeriesRichard Schwadel for THE NOW […]

A huge congratulations to our VPA Members who were nominated for this year’s Canadian Screen Awards. Amanda Cawley (Best Original Music – Non-Fiction for “Ageless Gardens/Sacred Spaces”), Gary Kotinoff (Best Original Music – Fiction for “Hudon & Rex/”Under Pressure”), and […]

VPA member Jessica Dymond is a core creative (Picture Editor) on the new NFB VR experience, This Is Not a Ceremony, that will celebrate its world premiere in January at the renowned Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It […]

The Netflix series about a heartbroken teenage girl who starts a band with three teen boy ghosts won the award for Outstanding Multiple Camera Editing for a Drama or Daytime Fiction Program. CONGRATULATIONS to Editors Daniel Krieger, Austin Andrews and […]

Congrats to our Leo Award Winners! Congratulations to all the VPA members who won Leos this year! With most of these projects forced to post remotely during COVID in 2020, this was certainly a year to remember. A job well […]

Congrats to CCE Award Winner Justin Li! We would like to congratulate VPA Professional Member Justin Li on his win at the 11th Canadian Cinema Editor Awards, held on June 14, 2021. Justin competed against himself to snag 2 nominations […]