{"id":27841,"date":"2012-11-09T09:48:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27841"},"modified":"2012-11-14T21:03:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T02:03:58","slug":"bahamas-international-film-festival-announces-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/bahamas-international-film-festival-announces-lineup","title":{"rendered":"BIFF Announces Final Film Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Festival founder and executive director, Leslie Vanderpool today announced the final program details for the 9th edition of the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), which takes place December 6-9, 2012 in Nassau.<\/p>\n

BIFF will begin with QUARTET and end with a quartet of four Australian aborigine Singers called THE SAPPHIRES.<\/p>\n

Weinstein Company\u2019s \u201cQUARTET\u201d starring, Maggie Smith, will open the festival with a red carpet screening at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island on Thursday, December 6th while Australian Comedy \u201c THE SAPPHIRES\u201d starring Chris O\u2019Dowd will close the festival with an evening screening on Sunday, December 9th \u2013 also at the Atlantis Theater.<\/p>\n

This year, the Festival will showcase 78 films from 26 different countries, including 45 features and 33 short films of which several are international premieres and all are Bahamian premieres. The four competition categories at BIFF are Spirit of Freedom: Narrative & Documentary; New Visions; and Short Film. Special sections include Caribbean Spotlight and Self Discovery as well as a World Cinema showcase.<\/p>\n

The official BIFF lineup is comprised of the following films:<\/p>\n

SPIRIT OF FREEDOM (NARRATIVE)<\/p>\n

A.L.F. (France) Director: Jerome Lescure
\nAPARTMENT IN ATHENS, APPARTAMENTO AD ATENE (Italy) Director: Ruggero Dipaola
\nCHANCE (USA) Director: Evan Kaufmann
\nGRASSROOTS (USA) Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
\nHABIBI (Gaza) Director: Susan Youssef
\nMEHERJAAN (Bangladesh) Director: Rubaiyat Hossain
\nMR. SOPHISTICATION (USA) Director: Danny Green
\nTHE DESTINY OF LESSER ANIMALS (Ghana) Director: Deron Albright<\/p>\n

SPIRIT OF FREEDOM (DOCUMENTARY)<\/p>\n

ARISE (USA) Director: Lori Joyce & Candice Orlando
\nDOLPHIN BOY (Israel) Director: Dani Menkin
\nGREEDY LYING BASTARDS (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Peru, Switzerland, Uganda, UK) Director: Craig Rosebraugh
\nHAITI UNTOLD (Haiti, Canada) Director: Dan Shannon
\nTHE IRAN JOB (Iran, USA), Director: Till Schauder
\nTHIS AIN\u2019T CALIFORNIA (Germany) Director: Marten Persiel
\nUPRISING (Egypt, USA) Director: Fredrik Stanton
\nRISING FROM ASHES (Rwanda, South Africa, United Kingdom) Director: T.C. Johnstone
\nWOMANISH WAYS, FREEDOM, HUMAN RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY, (Bahamas) Marion Bethel & Maria Govan<\/p>\n

NEW VISIONS<\/p>\n

BETWEEN FRIENDS (Trinidad & Tobago) Director: Omari Jackson
\nBETWEEN US (USA) Director: Dan Mirvish
\nBREAKFAST WITH CURTIS (USA) Director: Laura Colella
\nDEAD DAD (USA) Director: Ken J. Adachi
\nDEAD MAN\u2019S BURDEN (USA) Director: Jared Moshe
\nMAYBE TOMORROW (USA) Director: Michael Wolfe
\nMY BROTHER JACK (USA) Director: Stephen Dest
\nREDLEGS (USA) Director: Brandon Harris
\nTHE TAIWAN OYSTER (USA) Director: Mitchell Jarrett
\nTHE STORY OF LUKE (USA) Director: Alonso Mayo
\nMULBERRY CHILD (USA) Director: Susan Morgan Cooper<\/p>\n

SELF DISCOVERY<\/p>\n

ART MACHINE (USA) Director: Doug Karr
\nINOCENTE (USA) Director: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
\nI AM NOT A ROCK STAR (Canada) Director: Bobbi Jo Krals- Hart<\/p>\n

CARIBBEAN SPOTLIGHT<\/p>\n

BREATHE (Bahamas, USA) Director Martin Khodabakshian
\nJACKSON (Bahamas, USA) Director: Karen Arthur & Thomas Neuwirth
\nNORMAN SOLOMON (Bahamas) Director: Marion Bethel, Maria Govan
\nSHE (Bahamas) Director: Kareem Mortimer<\/p>\n

WORLD CINEMA<\/p>\n

BEWARE OF MR. BAKER (USA) Director: Jay Bulger
\nBITTERSWEET MONDAY
\nCAN\u2019T STAND LOSING YOU (USA) Director: Andy Grieve
\nCITY MONKEY (China) Director: Kong Lingchen
\nFRENCH IMMERSION (Canada) Director: Kevin Tierney
\nGO LALA GO (China) Director: Xu Jinglei
\nIRVINE WELSH\u2019S ECSTACY (Canada) Director: Rob Heydon
\nREGIN OF THE ASSASSINS (China) Director: Su Chao, John Woo
\nREVOLUTION (USA) Director: Robert Stewart
\nRULES OF THE GAME
\nWITHOUT A NET (Brazil) Director: Kelly J. Richardson<\/p>\n

SPECIAL SCREENING<\/p>\n

QUARTET (USA, UK) Director: Dustin Hoffman
\nTHE SAPPHIRES (Australia) Director: Wayne Blair<\/p>\n

SHORT FILMS<\/p>\n

ALEKESAM (USA) Director: Jason Berg
\nAMOS (USA) Director: Taylor Maxwell
\nAPOCRIFO (Mexico) Director: Ernesto Fundora
\nATLANTIS (USA) Director: Matthew Ornstein
\nBASEBALL IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (Haiti, USA) Director, David Drag & Bryn Mooser
\nBEACHED (Guyana) Director: Kojo McPherson
\nBLACK IRISH (USA) Director: Anika Poitier
\nBRIGIDY BRAM (Bahamas) Director: Toby Lunn
\nBURNING HEARTS (Japan) Director: James McFay
\nBUSTED IN BRINGHAM (USA) Director Talibah Newman
\nCADAVER (USA) Director: Jonah Ansell
\nCRESENDO (German) Director: Alonso Alvarez Barreda
\nDELIVERY (France) Director: Fabien \u2013 Mariano Ortiz
\nDOCKET # 32357 (USA) Director: Randy Wilkins
\nFIGHT SCENE (USA) Director: Jim Ford
\nHOMEBODY (USA) Director: Kate Marks
\nHOURGLASS (Norway) Director: Pedro Collantes
\nJOCYLEN & THE COYOTE (El Salvador) Director: Pilar Colome,
\nLE NID (France) Director: Aurelien Drach
\nLEGACY (USA) Director: Maya Anand
\nMISSION OF MERMAIDS (USA) Director: Susan Rockefeller
\nONE NIGHT STAND (China) Director: Michael Thai
\nOYSTER ROCKEFELLER (USA) Director: Charles Rogers
\nPEARL (USA) Director: Dan Butler
\nPLAY THROUGH (USA) Director: Paul Wagner
\nPRIVATE SUN (Palestine) Director: Rami Alayan
\nRAISE YOUR HANDS, (USA) Director: Elliot Kotek
\nRED AMBER GREEN (Jamaica) Director: Christopher Byfield
\nSOLACE (USA) Director: Tchaiko Omawale
\nTHUGZ THE MUSICAL (USA) Director: Liam Sullivan
\nTO MUSIC (USA) Director: Sophie Kohn
\nTRAVIS PORTER: RED ROCK (Bahamas, USA) Director: Ryan Lightbourn
\nTU & EU (Portugal, USA) Director: Edward Shieh
\nVALSE FAVORITE (France) Director: Deborah Helpert<\/p>\n

VICTOR (Philippines) Director: Jarell M. Serencio
\nThe festival is proud to announce the return of the Filmmaker\u2019s Residency Program. For the eighth year BIFF has broadened the program to include filmmakers from around the world to submit screenplays that are based in The Bahamas or Caribbean region. The Filmmakers\u2019 Residency Program nurtures screenwriters by providing them with an unrivaled opportunity to spend a week with accomplished professionals who make a living working in the industry from Los Angeles and New York.<\/p>\n

BIFF 2012 begins Thursday, December 6th in Nassau and runs through Sunday, December 9th and for the first time expands to Harbour Island and Governor\u2019s Harbour \u201cIsland Hopping\u201d December 10 \u2013 14. For additional information please visit our website www.bintlfilmfest.com.<\/p>\n

About the Opening and Closing Night Films:<\/p>\n

QUARTET, directed by Dustin Hoffman, Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on… and it does.<\/p>\n

THE SAPPHIRES, directed by Wayne Blair, 1968 was the year that changed the world. And for four young Aboriginal sisters from a remote mission this is the year that would change their lives forever. Around the globe, there was protest and revolution in the streets. Indigenous Australians finally secured the right to vote. There were drugs and the shock of a brutal assassination. And there was Vietnam. The sisters, Cynthia, Gail, Julie and Kay are discovered by Dave, a talent scout with a kind heart, very little rhythm but a great knowledge of soul music. Billed as Australia’s answer to ‘The Supremes’, Dave secures the sisters their first true gig, and fly’s them to Vietnam to sing for the American troops. Based on a true story, THE SAPPHIRES is a triumphant celebration of youthful emotion, family and music.<\/p>\n

The Bahamas International Film Festival is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the local community and international visitors with a diverse presentation of films from around the world.\u00a0 In addition to offering films that might not otherwise be released theatrically in the Bahamas, BIFF will provide a unique cultural experience, educational programs, and forums for exploring the future of cinema.\u00a0 For more information please visit www.bintlfilmfest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the Bahamas International Film Festival<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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