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BIFF To Showcase Bermuda Filmmakers

BIFF To Showcase Bermuda Filmmakers

The Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] today [Apr.4] announced that it will be hosting a festival-within-a-festival during this year’s annual event to highlight the work of local filmmakers. The special “Bermovies” event will take place on Saturday, April 13, and comprises eight film with a Bermuda connection as part of the BIFF 2013... Read more of this article

UK Travel Writer Lives Out Bermuda Fantasy

UK Travel Writer Lives Out Bermuda Fantasy

British writer, broadcaster and self-described “hip-hop intellectual” Lindsay Johns was finally able to live out one half of longstanding fantasy when he visited Bermuda earlier this year — a destination that has fascinated him since he first saw the locally produced film “The Deep.” Writing in last week’s [Mar. 30]... Read more of this article

Exploring Bermuda’s Most Famous Shipwreck

Exploring Bermuda’s Most Famous Shipwreck

She remains the most famous of the hundreds of ships to have come to grief on Bermuda’s reefs — the four-masted, 192-foot long wooden hulled schooner “Constellation” immortalised in Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel “The Deep” and the subsequent 1977 film adaptation. Built and launched in 1918, in July, 1943... Read more of this article

Arthur Rankin Easter Basket Of Holiday Specials

Arthur Rankin Easter Basket Of Holiday Specials

Although their names are now as synonomous wih Christmas as snowflakes and carols, Bermudian filmmaker Arthur Rankin Jr. and American partner Jules Bass also made animated seasonal specials for Thanksgiving, Halloween and … Easter. There were actually three Rankin-Bass Easter specials, to be exact. The first — “Here Comes Peter Cottontail”... Read more of this article

Video: Century-Old Bermuda Footage Surfaces

Video: Century-Old Bermuda Footage Surfaces

Shot on location in Bermuda in 1913 and released the following year, the fantasy romance “Neptune’s Daughter” was one of a number of epic silent films that former Australian swimming champion Annette Kellerman [1886-1975] starred in. Until recently only 19 minutes of the 71-minute film was known to survive. But in 2012 an additional... Read more of this article

Origins Of The Bermuda Triangle Myth

Origins Of The Bermuda Triangle Myth

Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the centuries in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico — the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Christopher Columbus — on his initial voyage of discovery to the New World in 1492 — is the first to have recorded anomalous... Read more of this article

Video: Island Cleaned Up With Soap Exposure

Video: Island Cleaned Up With Soap Exposure

Bermuda tourism cleaned up in terms of TV exposure when two popular CBS soap operas did location shooting on the island in the 1980s and ’90s. While they were appearing in “As The World Turns”, future movie siren Meg Ryan and one-time “Man From UNCLE” TV show star David McCallum appeared in a number of  sequences shot aboard... Read more of this article

Video: 1950s Bermuda TV, Film Studio

Video: 1950s Bermuda TV, Film Studio

Bermuda was ready for its close-up when a short-lived TV and film production facility was built in converted flying boat hangars on Darrell’s Island in the mid-1950s. “Crunch & Des”, a syndicated, half-hour TV series about the adventures of two charter fishermen, was perhaps the best known production to come out of the studio. Originally... Read more of this article

Superman’s Trip To Earth By Way Of Bermuda

Superman’s Trip To Earth By Way Of Bermuda

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive — and able to rocket from Krypton to Earth through flaring clusters of microscopic Bermuda marine life. In the 1970s Bermuda’s waters stood in for the gulfs of interstellar space in the epic “Superman” movie starring Christopher Reeve [pictured], Marlon Brando and... Read more of this article

Vampirella: Blood And Pink Sand …

Vampirella: Blood And Pink Sand …

Some horror film fans still consider it the greatest vampire film never made — a proposed ’70s epic featuring an ageless and voluptuous comic book bloodsucker, alien invaders and James Bond-type action/adventure sequences all filmed against an incongruously sunny Bermuda backdrop. In 1975 Britain’s Hammer studios — best known... Read more of this article

Video: 100 Year Old Film Made In Bermuda

Video: 100 Year Old Film Made In Bermuda

Bermuda doubled for a besieged 19th century city in British India in a short historical film shot on the island one hundred years ago. Made in Bermuda in 1912, “The Relief of Lucknow” was produced by Thomas Edison’s pioneering East Coast film company for the British market and about ten minutes of the movie’s Bermuda location... Read more of this article

BIFF Announces ‘Best Of Fest’ Showcase

BIFF Announces ‘Best Of Fest’ Showcase

The “Best of the Fest” lineup, which will be screened on Thursday [Mar. 22], the final day of the 15 annual Bermuda International Film Festival, has been reserved for the week’s most popular films, some of which were sell-outs, in order to give the public another opportunity to see them. The programme includes a special presentation of... Read more of this article

Chewstick Film Festival Schedule

Chewstick Film Festival Schedule

The Chewstick Foundation — holding its first annual Bakatown Film Festival from today [Jan. 26] until Saturday — unveiled the full line-up of movies and events. Showcasing local short films alongside award winning international shorts, the festival will celebrate yet another facet of the storytelling traditions Chewstick emphasises as... Read more of this article

Videos: TCM Celebrates ‘The Deep’

Videos: TCM Celebrates ‘The Deep’

Turner Classic Movies [TCM] has recently been celebrating the underwater thriller “The Deep”, director Peter Yates’ cinematic adaptation of the Peter Benchley bestseller shot largely on location in Bermuda in the summer of 1976. In a long retrospective at the TCM website, film historian Andrea Passafiume — who works for the... Read more of this article

Video: Bermuda Buddy Cop Film

Video: Bermuda Buddy Cop Film

It was a Bermuda-based “buddy movie” with a difference — two cops working on a complex case together on the island loathe one another at first sight before forming an unlikely professional partnership and friendship. The 1994 NBC TV movie “Bermuda Grace” starred William Sadler and David Harewood in a light comedy-adventure... Read more of this article

Videos: Exploring ‘The Bermuda Depths’

Videos: Exploring ‘The Bermuda Depths’

“The Bermuda Depths” is part ghost story and part love story with a touch of Japanese monster movie thrown in to the eerie  proceedings for good measure. And this unlikely combination of elements has ensured the ABC TV movie — filmed completely on location on the island in 1978 — retains a worldwide cult following more than... Read more of this article