VIFF Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema was an award from the Vancouver International Film Festival for a film director from the Asia-Pacific region.[1] Presented to a film judged as the best film by an emerging director within the festival's Dragons and Tigers program for Asian cinema,[2] it awarded a creative and innovative film, made early in the director's career, which had not yet won significant international recognition.
First created in 1994, the award was discontinued after 2013. It was replaced with a general Best New Director Award, open to all emerging international filmmakers with films screening in any festival program.[3]
Nominated films were selected by film scholar and critic Tony Rayns.[3]
| Year | Film | Director | Country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | This Window Is Yours | Tomoyuki Furumaya | Japan |
| 1995 | Goldfish | Wu Di | China |
| Maborosi | Koreeda Hirokazu | Japan | |
| 1996 | The Day a Pig Fell into the Well | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Rain Clouds over Wushan | Zhang Ming | China | |
| 1997 | Green Fish | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| 1998 | Xiao Wu | Jia Zhangke | China/Hong Kong |
| 1999 | Nana/No-Go | Hayakawa Wataru | Japan |
| 2000 | Tears of the Black Tiger | Wisit Sasanatieng | Thailand |
| 2001 | Mirror Image | Hsiao Ya-Chuan | Taiwan |
| 2002 | Shanghai Panic | Andrew Y-S Cheng | China |
| 2003 | Uniform | Diao Yinan | China |
| 2004 | The Soup, One Morning | Takahashi Izumi | Japan |
| 2005 | Oxhide | Liu Jiayin | China |
| 2006 | Todo Todo Terros | John Torres | The Philippines |
| 2007 | Fujian Blue | Weng Shouming | China |
| Mid-Afternoon Barks | Zhang Yuedong | China | |
| 2008 | Perfect Life | Emily Tang | Hong Kong/China |
| 2009 | Eighteen | Jang Kun-jae | South Korea |
| 2010 | Good Morning to the World! | Hirohara Saturo | Japan |
| 2011 | The Sun-Beaten Path | Sonthar Gyal | China |
| 2012 | Emperor Visits the Hell | Li Luo | China |
| 2013 | Anatomy of a Paperclip | Ikeda Akira | Japan |
