Leslie Vanderpool, founder & executive director BIFF and Sir Sidney Poitier
SIR SIDNEY POITIER TO BESTOW HIS NAME TO THE BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (BIFF) CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) announced today that Academy Award® winner and renowned global icon Sir Sidney Poitier has agreed to the naming of the prestigious Career Achievement Award at the Bahamas International Film Festival the “Sir Sidney Poitier Tribut...
Back by popular demand! The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) is proud to announce the return of its popular Screenwriters Residency Program (formerly known as the Filmmakers Residency Program), which provides screenplay writers from around the world to tell their stories with the opportunity to receive invaluable mentoring from industry professionals.
BIFF’s Screenwriters’ Residency Program seeks to nurture new filmmakers and screenwriters by providing them with an...
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Many thanks for your submissions to the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF). We prefer online entries submitted via Film Freeway, which provides cost-saving, paperless...
BIFF founder and executive director Leslie Vanderpool and Sir Sydney Poitier
Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin (BIFF Advisory Board Member) is particularly happy to announce that The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) announced today that Academy Award® winner and renowned global icon Sir Sidney Poitier has agreed to the naming of the prestigious Career Achievement Award at the Bahamas International Film Festival the “Sir Sidney Poitier Tribute Award.” BIFF f...
KellyAnne Huber won the poster competition for the 12th Annual Bahamas International Film Festival.
Graphic Designer KellyAnne Huber attended Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah GA in 2000. She spent 5 years working in various Publication and Advertising Houses in the US after graduating with a degree in Graphic Design and Communication Arts. She also spent time working in the South of France working with a Historic Restoration company.
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Passion for Film Festivals is My Passion for Lights - Camera - Coffee!
Surprise!!!!
Now that's where the ACTION is @ BAHAMAS COFFEE ROASTERS on Dunmore Street, Harbour Island Bahamas. No matter what film, panel or party the number #1 items any festival participant will tell you " we need Coffee !"
I found one of the finest coffees I've had in a very long time on Harbour Island. just a few sandy blocks to pink sand beaches and pristin...
Oliver W. Ottley III
Last Ones Left
oliver@ottleyink.com
Oliver was one of the 3 selected filmmakers selected for the Bahamas International Film Festival Residency Program. His script was mentored daily by 5 experienced mentors comining from filmmaking, creative, marketing and financial background. The program was held in beautiful Harbour Island, close to paradise in many ways.
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Mentors
Bruno Chatelin - bruno...
Louis C. Lio, M.D.
Bioterror Conspiracy Screenplay
superwiz@optonline.net
louis was one of the 3 selected filmmakers selected for the Bahamas International Film Festival Residency Program. His script was mentored daily by 5 experienced mentors comining from filmmaking, creative, marketing and financial background. The program was held in beautiful Harbour Island, close to paradise in many ways.
VIEW PHOTO ALBUM....enjoy some of their best moments.
Mentors
Bruno C...
Christopher Andre working with two of his mentors: Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor (right)
Explorers
Christopherandre25@gmail.com
Chris was one of the 3 selected (lucky) filmmakers selected for the Bahamas International Film Festival Residency Program. His script was mentored daily by 5 experienced mentors comining from filmmaking, creative, marketing and financial background. The program was held in beautiful Harbour Island, close to paradise in many ways.
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Andy Siege with Festival Founder Leslie Vanderpoole during the lively Q&A.
"Beti and Amare is set in 1930s Ethiopia where a young woman escapes Mussolini’s army and is almost attacked by bandits, were it not for the arrival of an otherworldly presence whom she befriends..."
Andy surprises everyone mentionning his films was written in 2 and a half weeks and shot in three weeks, with a small crew and cast (including his production partner playing one of the parts)...
2014 FILMMAKER RESIDENCY
Mentors:
Bruno Chatelin
Laurie Gordon
Matthew Helderman
Joe Aliberti
Nathaniel Kohn, Ph.D
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Participants:
Oliver W. Ottley III Last Ones Left
Christopher Andre Explorers
Louis C. Lio, M.D. Bioterror Conspiracy
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Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, the widow of Roger Ebert has received the Tribute Award in Harbour island, Eleuthera.
Mrs. Ebert is the Chairman and CEO of the Ebert Companies, including publisher of Rogerebert.com, and manages print publishing, television production, public speaking engagements, and organizes the annual Ebertfest film festival. She is also a producer, known for Ebert Presents At The Movies and Cannes Retrospectives. She is currently a subject of "Life Itself,&q...
WHEELS - Spirit Of Freedom Narrative
WHEELS is a dark-humored drama that follows the story of MICKEY (Donavon Thomas), a suicidal paraplegic who can’t kill himself no matter how hard he tries. In a desperate attempt to off himself, MICKEY offers the homeless junkie DRAKE (Patrick Hume) $500 to shoot him in the head. The transaction goes sideways, and a compassionate friendship is born. Lonely, outcasted and haunted by their pasts, the men hustle through the streets of...
BIFF will show over 90 films from over 20 countries.
Films at Galleria Cinemas JFK and Melia Hotel
December 4 - 7
Opening Night Film LIKE SUNDAY LIKE RAIN
December 5
Closing Night Film BIG IN JAPAN
December 7
BIFF Awards Viewing
December 8 at Graycliff Hotel & Restaurant
BIFF Plays and Screening with Roger Guenveu...
Carlyn Bodmer - Barefoot Bandit
Candice Tab - Battered
Charles Porter - Battered
Natalie Lynne Castillo - Battered
Alexander Stuart Hauck - Battered
Toby Lomas - Battered
Andread Madjid Siege (Andy Siege) - Beti & Amare
Deryn Williams - Big In Japan
Sean Lowry - Big In Japan
Phillip Peterson - Big In Japan
David Drury - Big In Japan
John Jeffcoat - Big In Japan
Tara Lynn Orr - Bis Gleich
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Debra Messing at BIFF, she will be honored as the 2014 BIFF Shining Star, Friday, December 5 following her Opening Night Film Friday, December 5 at 7:30pm LIKE SUNDAY LIKE RAIN !! at the Atlantis Theater
Messing landed her first television job in a recurring role on the hit dramaNYPD Blue in 1994. Her career advanced steadily from there, with guest spots on shows such as Seinfeld and a series of film roles: Keanu Reeves's wife ...
JetBlue Airways has come on board to sponsor the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) and will lend its name to support the New Vision Film section of the Festival. The announcement was made by BIFF Founder and Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool, and Alan Sweeting, General Manager of JetBlue Airways in The Bahamas.
Under terms of the deal, JetBlue has become the official airline sponsor of BIFF and the exclusive airline partner for festival travel between the United States and T...
Filmfestivals.com met with Andy a young filmmaker preiering his film on th efestival cicruit last septemebre at Montrreal World Film, a low budget Sci Film shot in Ethiopia.
Beti, a young Ethiopian girl has escaped Mussolini's troops and found refuge in the peaceful south of the country. But the Italians are marching closer. Beti's only hope... will come from above!
BETI AND AMARE
2014, Colour, Germany, Ethiopia, Focus on World Cinema
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“Like Sunday Like Rain” Directed by Actor Frank Whaley and Comedy “BIG IN JAPAN” Directed by John Jeffcoat To Bookend Festival as Opening And Closing Night Films, Respectively
Festival Founder and Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool today announced the final program details for the 11th edition of the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), which takes place December 4-9, 2014 in Nassau and December 10-14, in Harbour Island, Eleuthera.
BIFF wi...
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM: NARRATIVE & DOCUMENTARY
BIFF has held Spirit of Freedom as one of its themed categories since it's very first festival, eight years ago. Each film in this program explores the potential of the human spirit and how freedom affects - or is absent from - our lives.
NEW VISIONS - SPONSORED BY JETBLUE AIRWAYS
Our New Visions competition is a showcase for emerging artists, providing festival audiences with the opportunity to discover the next genera...
