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How AWESOME is that — an anonymous 🤫 donor is matching funds up to $2500 for #GivingTuesday!

Follow this link 🔗 in our bio to make secure (and transaction-free!) donations to The International Vegan Film Festival (thanks, @zeffyplatform!)

If you need to use PayPal our website’s donation page has that option. https://theivff.com/donate.

If you attended this year’s #IVFF2025 and got a great discount (or a #FREE weekend pass!?) please consider how the experience watching #veganfilm enriched your life and how much you would like that experience for others in the future. The #IVFF belongs to the movement…feed it well and it will grow.

This week we want to hear how vegans found their way because of #vegan films and how they’re #GivingBack. I (@raykowalchuk) will go first!

#Internationalveganfilmfestival #VeganAF #VegFest #VeganFood #PlantBased #animalrights #AnimalLiberation #animalwelfare #filmfestival #torontoevents #veganrecipes

For the next week, every #GivingTuesday donation will automatically enter you into a draw for #FREE IVFF Virtual Festival tickets.

This is YOUR Film Festival.

In our show-me-don’t-tell-me culture, the vegan cinematic genre is an undeniable voice of the movement, whether you’re on the front lines of animal rights or a veg-curious fledgling still finding your way through the animal-free section of the grocery store. Many of you wouldn’t be reading this right now if it wasn’t for a piece of media that made you blink, made you think, made you cry, or made you rejoice that a better way was possible.

While you know a “vegan film” when you meet one, it wasn’t until the International Vegan Film Festival came along that the genre was born out of necessity — does this film capture the vegan spirit or doesn’t it? Nobody realized what a big responsibility that was, to start curating films that celebrate vegans, the filmmakers, and the animals whose desires they have interpreted.

In its 8th year the IVFF has confidently expanded from one film program to nine, bolstered by an unprecedented volume of submissions from many countries. Those who participated in World Vegan Day Weekend, Oct. 31 to November 2, saw up to 24 hours of programming (and even Encore screenings on Monday). If you were not able to participate we are delighted to present the IVFF Virtual Festival, where online viewing truly makes it an international event. 

Follow the link in our bio to find out how you can support the #Internationalveganfilmfestival on #GivingTuesday — we need your donations but your heart, mind, and energy have many applications to secure what is and build what will become.

#IVFF2025 #IVFF #Internationalveganfilmfestival #VeganFilmFest #films #movies #vegan

Food for Profit has won the Best Vegan-Themed Feature Film award at the International Vegan Film Festival in Toronto!

The festival is one of the world’s leading events dedicated to films about veganism, animal rights, the environment, and sustainable food. Every year it brings together filmmakers, activists, and artists from around the globe to celebrate stories that inspire change.

This year Food for Profit received the Best Vegan-Themed Feature Film award, the festival’s top honor, standing out among 23 nominated films.

The film will be screened on Sunday morning at the OISE Auditorium, University of Toronto 👉 more info in the @the_ivff link in bio!

Art as Advocacy: IVFF Films, Visual Art, & the Art of the Spoken Word on the Mother-Child Bond with Ray Kowalchuk, Gretchen Ryan & Victoria Moran

💡 V-COP 25 is coming soon!
🔥 Get ready for powerful discussions, groundbreaking solutions, and inspiring voices leading the charge for a sustainable, plant-based future.

Register here:
https://climatehealers.org/v-cop

#ClimateChange #Vegan #Sustainability #SaveThePlanet #PlantBased

Taking a moment to calculate how vegan films develop and codify the convictions of the animal and vegan movements should be as easy as 1 + 1 = 2. But on #GivingTuesday, your job is multiplication, because adding your energy and resources increases our efficacy at an exponential rate — not to mention that we’ve got a donor that will times your donation by two!
Thank you #Toronto for making the 8th International Vegan Film Festival a weekend of expanding scope and conviction. But we’re not done for #IVFF2025 — the unprecedented number of #IVFF2025 selections now need the global platform of the IVFF Virtual Festival. Your donations are critical for our films to reach the retinas 👀of the rest of the world 🌏.
Don’t have the cash?💰 We can still use your energy 💪, time🕰, and knowledge🧠. There is a place for you in our roster of volunteers, or DM us directly to illustrate how your skills can make the difference for the festival, filmmakers, and, always, the animals.
https://theivff.com/volunteer
#IVFF2025 #IVFF #Internationalveganfilmfestival #VeganFilmFest #films #movies #vegan

Our documentary “Food Systems Change Not Climate Change” was the winner of the Environmental Protection category at this year’s International Vegan Film Festival (@the_ivff) in Toronto.

Plant Based Treaty’s Global Campaign Coordinator @Anita.Krajnc spoke at the Q&A session after the film screening. Both the Q&A discussion as well as the full documentary are available to watch on our YouTube channel.

Comment ‘Watch’ and we will DM you the links to both. 🔗

If you (or someone you know) weren’t able to watch “Humans and Other Animals” at the International Vegan Film on November 2 be sure to subscribe to the IVFF newsletter — we will be announcing dates for our virtual festival soon!Follow the link 🔗 in our bio

Developing on the themes established by his 2013 documentary “Speciesism: The Movie,” Director Mark DeVries leads an audience trying to understand the animal movement through his latest film, “Humans and Other Animals.” Amidst a #documentary genre that lays out the facts, Mark takes us on a journey of contemplation of how modern lifestyles have shaped our food industries and vice versa, amidst a family tree that re-aquaints us with our animal cousins who are here with us, not for us.

The 2025 IVFF recognizes Mark DeVries (@markdevriesstudio) and “Humans and Other Animals” with an Honorable Mention in the Animal Advocacy category. Peter Singer acknowledges “Humans and Other Animals” as a film that embodies his 1975 book, “Animal Liberation,” and we hope that it ignites the modern #animalrights movement and inspires the social transformation that recognizes #speciesism as indefensible as #racism or #sexism. 

#IVFF2025 #IVFF #vegan #veganfilm #Internationalveganfilmfestival#VeganFilmFest #PlantBased #AnimalLiberation #filmfestival #movies #films

#Repeat Win in the #IVFF2025 Social Media Category for @menkay.ig, for his powerful and clever “Is This Real Life?” matching themes to the lyrics of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Is it time to dispel the mythical fantasies of humane animal products when ALL of the male chicks (“I’m just a poor boy…”) in a hatchery are gruesomely dispatched? “Caught in a landslide” indeed, with no “escape from [the] reality” of eggs. Some sympathy — nay, empathy — is actually in order, and Menkay’s 2025 offering builds on his win from 2024, “The Humane Way to Kill” (follow the links on our theivff.com) to level with consumers — there isn’t a humane way to kill an animal that wants to live.

Maybe you caught the announcement live in Toronto at the 2025 International Vegan Film Festival on Oct. 31-Nov. 2 — if you did, please share your experience and impression of the festival below. If you missed it — well, you can still watch this year’s selections at our Virtual Festival. Announcements will be made to our newsletter subscribers (follow the link 🔗 in our bio), as well as unfolding schedules for the IVFF World Tour…if you’d like a vegan film festival in your city DM us directly!

#IVFF #animalrights #vegan #VeganFilmFest #veganfilm #filmfestival #PlantBased #Internationalveganfilmfestival #Menkay

That’s a wrap hosting @the_ivff 🎥 Interviewing filmmakers and producers of creative and inspiring films like @friendsnotfoodthefilm and @coffeewarsfilm and beside fellow animal advocates.

That’s a wrap hosting @the_ivff 🎥 Interviewing filmmakers and producers of creative and inspiring films like @friendsnotfoodthefilm and @coffeewarsfilm and beside fellow animal advocates.

That’s a wrap hosting @the_ivff 🎥 Interviewing filmmakers and producers of creative and inspiring films like @friendsnotfoodthefilm and @coffeewarsfilm and beside fellow animal advocates.

It’s official. Sienna Sunset gives you GOOD ENERGY. @kalemyname said so, so you know it has to be true!!! 💚💛🧡❤️

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Yesterday, TAVA attended the International Vegan Film Festival! 🎬🌱 In addition to enjoying some incredible screenings, we handed out flyers as part of our outreach and connected with inspiring fellow animal rights advocates. It was a wonderful event and we’re already looking forward to next year! 💚✨

@the_ivff

Yesterday, TAVA attended the International Vegan Film Festival! 🎬🌱 In addition to enjoying some incredible screenings, we handed out flyers as part of our outreach and connected with inspiring fellow animal rights advocates. It was a wonderful event and we’re already looking forward to next year! 💚✨

@the_ivff

Yesterday, TAVA attended the International Vegan Film Festival! 🎬🌱 In addition to enjoying some incredible screenings, we handed out flyers as part of our outreach and connected with inspiring fellow animal rights advocates. It was a wonderful event and we’re already looking forward to next year! 💚✨

@the_ivff

Everyone wins at the International Vegan Film Festival. Animals included. 🌱🐷💕

FUN FACT: did you know the founders and creators of Sienna Sunset are VEGAN! Yupppp. More life.

Ol’ TROPIKZ JUICE CO. ©️

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