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BIFF 2012 Film Festival Lineup
BIFF announced the lineup for the 15th annual Bermuda International Film Festival taking place from March 16 to 22. This year’s programme includes Foreign Language Film Oscar winner, “A Separation,” as well as three films nominated for the same category: “Bullhead,” “Footnote,” and “In Darkness.” “A Separation” was also nominated... Read more of this article
Videos: Weekend Film Series Screenings
A critically acclaimed documentary that tells the inspirational story of African street musicians who become world music stars and a frothy and funny French romantic comedy, are the featured films at the Weekend Film Series this coming Sunday [Feb. 19]. “Benda Bilili!” [pictured] — the story of five paraplegics and a young able-bodied... Read more of this article
BIFF To Screen “House of Pleasures”
Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] will host a screening of “House of Pleasures” on January 29 at 7pm as part of its monthly film series, BIFFlixs. The film will be shown in the Tradewinds Auditorium at Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] on Crow Lane in Hamilton. The film was selected to offer a taster of the type of... Read more of this article
Chewstick’s Bakatown Film Festival
The Chewstick Foundation will be holding their 1st Annual Bakatown Short Film Festival starting Thursday, January 26th and continuing through to Saturday, January 28th. The 1st edition of the Bakatown Film Festival promises to be one of the best ever, as Chewstick will host a series of events celebrating local film culture, storytelling and production,... Read more of this article
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
Supernatural Bermuda Triangle Thriller
A supernatural thriller in the vein of the “Blair Witch Project” and last year’s mock documentary “Apollo 18″ could be coming soon to a cinema near you. Hollywood’s WWE Studios announced yesterday [Jan. 20] they had acquired “Bermuda”, a found footage horror speculative script by screenwriters Bobby Lee... Read more of this article
Sundance Film’s Focus On Tax Avoidance
Victoria Bruce, one of the filmmakers responsible for a new documentary premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this month, was drawn to the project when she realised her tax bill was higher than those of multinationals including Google — which avoid US taxes on foreign profits using off-shore jurisdictions like Bermuda. Her documentary “We’re... Read more of this article
Weekend Film Series Resumes
An award-winning documentary film that examines the problem of waste in our consumer society, and a warm and witty Italian comedy, are the featured films at the “Weekend Film Series” on Sunday [Jan. 15]. “The Clean Bin Project” will screen at 3 p.m., and will be followed by a Q.&A. session with Vanese Flood-Gordon of Government’s... Read more of this article
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
BIFF Entries Shine In 2011 Critics’ Poll
No less than eight of the movies screened at this year’s Bermuda International Film Festival were in the running for Best Film in the 2011 IndieWire critics’ poll – perhaps the top annual ranking of independent productions in the world. Shortlisted as being among the year’s most impressive films were 2011 BIFF selections... Read more of this article
‘The Inbetweeners’ Movie Screening
The alternatively awkward and comic growing pains of British adolescents are coming to the screen at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] theatre next month when the Caledonian Society of Bermuda screens “The Inbetweeners: The Movie.” Adapted from the hit TV series of the same name, the film was one of the biggest box office... Read more of this article
Final BIFFLIX Screening Of The Year
BIFFLIX will be holding its last screening of the year on Sunday [Dec. 18] with a film about a French entertainer whose love life was as legendary as his music. “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life” is a completely original take on one of the greatest French mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg [Eric Elmosnino].... Read more of this article
