Press Releases
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For Immediate Release October 20, 2008
Nocturna, Paula’s Secret take Best Feature
Honours at BIFF Kids Film Festival
The Bermuda International Film Festival and Butterfield Bank, today announced that German feature film, Paula’s Secret, and the Spanish animated film, Nocturna, took top honours at the fifth annual BIFF Kids Film Festival, held over the weekend.
The films were judged by local youngsters, who entered a contest in order to sit on the juries. Sitting on the 5+ jury were: Finn Hutton, 8, P5, Somerset Primary School, and Rosemary Swain, 9, Year 5, Bermuda High School. Sitting on the 8+ jury were: Sophie Moniz, 11, Year 7, Bermuda High School; Alice Graham-Welton, 11, Year 7, Bermuda High School; and Antoine Jackson, 12, M2, at Dellwood Middle School.
The younger jury selected Nocturna as the top feature, while giving its Best Short Award to the Australian short film, Triple Concerto in D Minor.
The older jury selected Paula’s Secret as the best feature, while selecting Canadian film Hannah’s Story and the Canadian-Ugandan co-production, Anita’s Africa, as co-recipients of the Best Short Award.
Twenty-eight films from 15 countries screened at the three-day festival, in addition to six short films made by local youngsters in the BIFF Film Academy summer film production camps sponsored by Butterfield Bank.
More than 750 nursery and primary school students also attended films as part of the festival’s School Screening Programme, held Thursday and Friday at the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.
Media Contact:
Duncan Hall OR Stuart Roberts
Deputy Director, BIFF Kids Butterfield Bank
T – 293-3456 T – 298-4610
F - 293-7769 F – 298-4610
E – deputydirector@biff.bm |
