Kabar Terkini:Brooklyn International Film Festival

BiFF is already open for submissions and will keep receiving films up until March 15, 2008. Out of the estimated 2,000 entries, BiFF will select 150 films. Most films will be shown twice and the total number of projections will exceed 250. BiFF will announce the final lineup on April 15, 2008. By then, BiFF website, www.brooklynfest.org, will have listed each film with relative info (including print source), picture, and film trailer.

Venues 08
BiFF 2008 will be held at multiple venues throughout Brooklyn and one theater in Manhattan (TBA). In Brooklyn, we will partner with Brooklyn Heights Cinemas, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and Regal Cinemas. We are currently researching and evaluating other potential venues.

Background
BiFF was established in 1998 as the first international competitive film festival in New York. Conceptually unique, the festival has grown exponentially each year in terms of number of submissions, program quality and size, international exposure, media coverage, audience attendance and participation, sponsorship, endorsements, community outreach, and budget. From 1998 through 2001, BiFF was held at the Commodore Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. From 2002 through 2006, BiFF partnered with the Brooklyn Museum. BiFF 2007 was held at multiple venues throughout Brooklyn. Opening Night was staged at Steiner Studios. The main competitive event ran at the Cobble Hill Cinema. Sidebar programs ran at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn Heights Cinema, and Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Since its inception, the festival has reviewed more than 14,000 films. For the 2007 edition, BiFF received 2,000 film submissions from 100 countries and selected 140 film premieres to be part of the competitive program. At the 2007 festival, over a 10-day period, 12,000 customers attended BiFF’s 81 film programs. BiFF’s primary goal is to connect filmmakers to distribution companies and expose them to the media. Many films that have premiered at BiFF in the past few years went on to be released theatrically and/or are available at video stores near you.

Awards
A panel of journalists, film festival directors, and film related professionals grade each film to select the best in its category, awarding the Chameleon Statuette (and prizes) to each of the five winners. The festival board selects the best film of the year among the five winners, awarding it the Grand Chameleon Award ($50,000 in services). The festival also assigns one Spirit Award and one Audience Award in each category. Other awards are: Best Production, Best New Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Actress and Best Actor. At the 2008 festival, through the resources of our film sponsors, BiFF will award the winners with prizes totaling over $80,000 in film services, products, and cash. A single prize of $5,000 cash, the “Diane Seligman Award”, sponsored by Lowel Light, will be given to Best Documentary.

Call for Entries
11th Brooklyn International Film Festival / May 30 - June 8, 2008.

Deadlines: 11/30/07 (early) - 3/15/08 (final). Submission Fee: $30 - $50.

Categories: feature, documentary, experimental, short, animation.

Awards: $85,000 in products, services, and cash. A single prize of $5,000 cash, 'Diane Seligman Award', sponsored by Lowel Light, will be given to Best Doc.