Vancouver Film Critics Circle One to Watch Award

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle One to Watch Award is a Canadian film award, presented as part of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's annual awards program to honour breakthrough work by emerging filmmakers and performers in the Canadian film industry.

First presented as in 2014 as Best First Canadian Film and awarded exclusively to first-time directors, the award was renamed to "One to Watch" in 2017, with its focus expanded at that time to permit the award to honour breakout performances and non-debut works.

The winner of the award receives a $500 prize from Telefilm Canada.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Honoree	Film	Ref.
2014	Andrew Huculiak	Violent	^[1]
	Kyle Thomas	The Valley Below	^[2]
	Ana Valine	Sitting on the Edge of Marlene	^[2]
2015	Andrew Cividino	Sleeping Giant	^[3]
	Lindsay MacKay	Wet Bum	^[4]
	Kurt Walker	Hit 2 Pass	^[4]
2016	Ashley McKenzie	Werewolf	^[5]
	Sofia Bohdanowicz	Never Eat Alone	^[6]
	Kevan Funk	Hello Destroyer	^[6]
2017	Cody Bown	Gregoire	^[7]
	Winston DeGiobbi	Mass for Shut-Ins	^[8]
	Seth A. Smith	The Crescent	^[8]
2018	Katherine Jerkovic	Roads in February (Les routes en février)	^[9]
	Drew Lint	M/M	^[10]
	Jasmin Mozaffari	Firecrackers
	Akash Sherman	Clara
2019	Matthew Rankin	The Twentieth Century	^[11]
	Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers	The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open	^[12]
	Heather Young	Murmur	^[12]

2020s

Year	Honoree	Film	Ref.
2020	Titus Heckel	Chained	^[13]
	Kiawenti:io Tarbell	Beans	^[13]
	Jessie Anthony	Brother, I Cry	^[14]
2021	Trevor Mack	Portraits from a Fire	^[15]
	Pavle Čemerikić	The White Fortress (Tabija)	^[16]
	Elizabeth Lazebnik	Be Still	^[16]
2022	Anthony Shim	Riceboy Sleeps	^[17]
	Grace Glowicki	Until Branches Bend	^[18]
	Dohyun Noel Hwang	Riceboy Sleeps
	Sophie Jarvis	Until Branches Bend
2023	Ariane Louis-Seize	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)	^[19]
	Meredith Hama-Brown	Seagrass	^[20]
	Jenny Lee-Gilmore	Overtime
	Ally Pankiw	I Used to Be Funny

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Vancouver Film Critics Circle One to Watch Award

Contents

Winners and nominees

2010s

2020s

References