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Bermuda International Film Festival Line Up
BIFF today announced the line-up for the 16th annual Bermuda International Film Festival taking place from April 12-18. Over 50 feature-length and short narratives and documentaries will be screened this year at Liberty Theatre and Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. The BIFF 2013 programme combines the very best in world cinema with local filmmaking... Read more of this article
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
“Oz” Artist Denslow: The Who Would Be King
The title character in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is an eccentric circus illusionist and balloonist blown to a magical kingdom where he poses as an all-powerful sorcerer. In a move at least partly inspired by the supreme ruler of that imaginary land, American artist W.W. Denslow banished himself to Bermuda and used the profits he made... Read more of this article
Bermudian Producer Is The Toast Of Tinsel Town
Aspiring Bermuda movie producer Bayard Outerbridge was the toast of Hollywood’s student filmmaker community on Saturday [Mar.2] when his gripping short “Machsom” had its world premiere screening at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Mr. Outerbridge [pictured here on the film's set] is the first Bermudian to attend the prestigious... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Role In “Gone With The Wind”
When Hollywood producer David O. Selznick flew to Bermuda for a two-month working holiday in the fall of 1938, his luggage reportedly consisted of four suitcases full of draft scripts of “Gone With The Wind”. Seen below at the Darrell’s Island flying boat station with wife Irene Mayer Selznick as they disembarked from one of the Bermuda... Read more of this article
Bermuda Docs Festival To Screen ‘Magic Camp’
The Bermuda Documentary Film Festival is to feature a ‘family documentary’ for the first time at its eighth edition, March 14-17. Magic Camp is a poignant, funny and inspirational film about Tannen’s Magic Camp in rural Pennsylvania, where young magic lovers, 12-20, come together every summer to learn how to become professional magicians. As the... Read more of this article
“Chasing Ice” & “Barbara” Films To Screen
A documentary film about climate change that has won 23 festival awards, and a Cold War drama will screen at the Weekend Film Series on Sunday February 17. Chasing Ice will screen at 3 p.m., while Barbara will screen at 5.15 p.m. Chasing Ice was featured at Bermuda Docs soon after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the... Read more of this article
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
James Bond’s Scrubbed Bermuda Mission
Largely set in and around Bermuda, the rogue James Bond project “Warhead” has been hailed as one of Hollywood’s great unfilmed scripts – so good it tempted a retired Sean Connery [pictured] to re-holster his Walther PPK and return as 007 for one final mission. But what amounted to a protracted Spy Versus Spy legal battle between... Read more of this article
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
BIFF Film: “Cheerful Weather for the Wedding”
The January installment of The Bermuda International Film Festival’s film series, BIFFlix, will be “Cheerful Weather for the Wedding.” Much compared to the popular British period drama television series, “Downton Abbey,” the film will screen on Sunday January 27, 5.30pm, at The Tradewinds Auditorium in the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute,... Read more of this article
Oscar-Nominated Film To Screen At Film Series
A documentary film that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and a feature film that is nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category, will screen at the Weekend Film Series, sponsored by Gosling’s, on Sunday January 20. Comprehensive in scope and heart-wrenching in its humanity, Eugene Jarecki’s Sundance... Read more of this article
