Category: Films/Movies
Outerbridge Among 2013 BIFF Award Winners
The winners of the jury and audience choice awards were announced last night [Apr. 18] at the Wrap Party of the “Sweet 16th” annual Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] held at Margaritas, with aspiring Bermuda movie producer Bayard Outerbridge [pictured] walking away with a prize for his American Film Institute thesis film “Machsom.” “Machsom,”... Read more of this article
Library To Screen Documentary “Life & Debt”
Continuing its “Saturday Selections” film series, the Bermuda National Library will be showing director Stephanie Black’s 2001 documentary film “Life & Debt” tomorrow [Apr. 20]. The film focusses on the economic and social situation in Jamaica, and specifically the impact of International Monetary Fund and the World... Read more of this article
Kristen Wiig Stars In BIFF Closing Night Film
The 2013 Bermuda International Film Festival wraps up tonight [Apr. 18] with a screening of the forthcoming Kristen Wiig-Annette Bening comedy “Girl Most Likely” as its closing movie. “Girl Most Likely” — then provisionally titled “Imogene” — premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival last... Read more of this article
Photos: BIFF 2013 “Sweet Sixteen” Launch Party
The Bermuda International Film Festival kicked off the 2013 event by throwing itself a “Sweet 16″-themed launch party last Friday [Apr. 12]. Margaritas on Bermudiana Road hosted the Hollywood-inspired party to mark the sixteenth anniversary of BIFF. BIFF attendees rubbed shoulders with visiting film directors and actors, jury members, the... Read more of this article
Irving Berlin And Bermuda’s Easter Parade
Quintessential American songwriter Irving Berlin [pictured] — and his battered piano — arrived in Bermuda in 1933 in time for the Easter season and the annual floral pageant which used to wind its way through the streets of Hamilton. He left the island five weeks later with one of his hallmark songs sketched out — the seasonal classic... Read more of this article
Film Writer: BIFF’s “All-Star Game Philosophy”
Independent film website Indiewire says that in relative terms if the venerable New York Film Festival were as successful as the Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] – which opened on Friday [Apr. 12] — about two million people would crowd into the Lincoln Center for its annual screenings. In a glowing piece about BIFF —... Read more of this article
National Museum Salutes BIFF Opening Day
To salute the opening day of the 2013 Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF], the Bermuda National Museum yesterday [Apr.12] uploaded a gallery of rare production sketches and storyboards from the locally produced 1977 blockbuster “The Deep” at its Facebook page. Based on the bestselling novel by Peter Benchley and shot primarily... Read more of this article
Video: Jonathan Winters’ “Passage To Bermuda”
Antic funnyman Jonathan Winters — whose inspired flights of comedic fancy were once famously recruited in the service of Bermuda’s sedate tourism industry — died on Thursday [Apr. 11] at his home in California. He was 87. In 1963 Mr. Winters [pictured] was deliberately cast very much against type when he hosted and narrated “Passage... Read more of this article
“Bermuda Triangle” Action Franchise Planned
Hollywood studio Warner Brothers has closed a mid-six figure deal for “The Bermuda Triangle”, an original script by “12 Rounds” screenwriter Daniel Kunka. While the plot is being kept under wraps, the Deadline Hollywood entertainment website reports the intention is “to use the Bermuda Triangle mythology – planes... Read more of this article
Bermudian Film Shortlisted For WorldFest Award
Bermudian made documentary ‘In the Hour of Victory’ has been selected to screen at the prestigious 46th Annual WorldFest Houston International Film Festival in Texas later this month, and has also been selected as a finalist for one of their top awards. The film, which is based on the book of the same title by Jonathan Smith, tells the story of... Read more of this article
