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Registered charity

Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society

Legal name on the register: GREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY

CA-E-M45A-AHNCFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-M45A-AHNC
Address
1181 SEYMOUR ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6B 3M7
Earliest record
July 1, 2009
Also known as
Vancouver International Film Festival
Identifiers held
Charity registration
118946821RR0001
Business number
118946821
Business number
800554248
Vancouver licence
4514445
Vancouver licence
4526449
Vancouver licence
4533147
Vancouver licence
4533542
Vancouver licence
4604287
Vancouver licence
4608681
Vancouver licence
4626831
Vancouver licence
4645518
Vancouver licence
4654166
Registrations
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity118946821RR0001Registered
Municipal licences (13)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverRetail Dealer - Food4526449November 21, 2023Issued
VancouverVenue4604287October 24, 2024Issued
VancouverBusiness Support Services4514445November 21, 2023Issued
VancouverTheatre4533147November 21, 2023Issued
VancouverVenue4533542November 21, 2023Inactive
VancouverVenue4626831March 17, 2025Issued
VancouverTheatre4608681March 17, 2025Issued
VancouverBusiness Support Services4645518March 25, 2025Issued
VancouverRetail Dealer - Food4654166March 17, 2025Issued
VancouverVenue4843751November 14, 2025Issued
VancouverTheatre4823665November 14, 2025Issued
VancouverBusiness Support Services4863337February 19, 2026Issued
VancouverRetail Dealer - Food4872456November 14, 2025Issued

A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.

Board and officers on record (14)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Kyle FostnerDIRECTORcurrent
Barry MacdonaldDIRECTORJune 19, 2024ended June 30, 2027
Tina HouseDIRECTORJune 19, 2024ended June 30, 2027
Valerie ProdanukDIRECTORJune 19, 2024ended June 30, 2027
Brian ChanDIRECTORJune 12, 2023ended June 30, 2026
Brian McbayDIRECTORJune 12, 2023ended June 30, 2026
Jennifer EmeryDIRECTORJune 12, 2023ended June 30, 2026
Kevin EastwoodDIRECTORJune 12, 2023ended June 30, 2026
Catherine OlsenDIRECTORJune 15, 2022ended June 30, 2025
Matthew HallDIRECTORJune 15, 2022ended June 30, 2025
Ross GentlemanDIRECTORJune 15, 2022ended June 30, 2025
Sirish RaoDIRECTORJune 15, 2022ended June 30, 2025
Arn JohalDIRECTORJune 9, 2021ended June 30, 2024
Doreen ManuelDIRECTORJune 9, 2021ended June 30, 2024

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$6,478,616

across 36 agreements, 2009–2026

2009$446K
2012$119K
2015$307K
2016$103K
2017$2.3M
2018$205K
2019$1.8M
2020$135K
2021$182K
2022$120K
2023$476K
2024$80K
2025$128K
2026$25K
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Timeline
  1. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,736
  2. Licence first issued — Business Support Services
  3. Licence first issued — Venue
  4. Licence first issued — Theatre
  5. Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
  6. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$5,000
  7. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$40,481
  8. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$57,600
  9. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,458
  10. Licence first issued — Business Support Services
  11. Licence first issued — Venue
  12. Licence first issued — Theatre
  13. Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
  14. Licence first issued — Venue
  15. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$22,172
  16. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$57,600
  17. Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
  18. Licence first issued — Business Support Services
  19. Licence first issued — Theatre
  20. Licence first issued — Venue
  21. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$375,000
  22. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$39,293
  23. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$61,700
  24. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,036
  25. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$99,800
  26. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$44,800
  27. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$29,640
  28. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$107,300
  29. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$12,264
  30. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$102,500
  31. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,300
  32. Federal grant — Western Economic Diversification Canada$350,000
  33. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,361,157
  34. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$7,756
  35. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$102,500
  36. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$100,000
  37. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,451
  38. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$101,700
  39. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
  40. Federal grant — Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada$4,500

Showing the 40 most recent of 49 dated events.

Why this is one record

4 publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

  • Same name and postal code V6B 3M7
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 1181 seymour, vancouver, BC
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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