BIFF Kids Announces 55-film line-up for third annual festival
33 international films and 22 films made by Bermuda-based children to be screened at Liberty Theatre.
The Bermuda International Film Festival and Butterfield Bank, today announced that 55 films will screen at the third annual BIFF Kids Film Festival, October 13-15.
Thirty-three children's films representing 15 countries will screen at the festival, as will 22 films made by Bermuda-based youngsters at the festival's summer film production camps. The 55-film line-up represents a nine-film jump from last year's BIFF Kids film programme.
A first this year is a shorts programme for children ages three and up.
"We have screened films for kids five and up at our first two festivals, but we had a number of requests by parents to show films for the younger kids, too," says Christian Zabriskie, a film programmer at BIFF Kids. "So we have assembled a wonderful programme of short shorts from some of the world's top animation studios."
The festival opens at 7 p.m. on Friday October 13 with The Ghost of Canterville (7 and Up), winner of the Best Film award at the Leeds Young People's Film Festival. The hilarious family drama will be preceded by a costume parade with prizes for the best costumes. Children, and adults, are invited to come dressed in their favourite Hallowe'en costume.
Two other series of short films will also screen at the festival. Positively African (6 and Up) is a series showing the positive side of Africa, and includes Binta and the Great Idea, which has won 40 festival awards worldwide. Twisted Toons, meanwhile, is a series of 12 twisted cartoon shorts suitable for a teen audience.
The film line-up also includes:
Feature film The Treasure of the White Falcons (9 and Up) winner of audience awards at the Vienna Children's Film Festival and Hamburg Film Festival
Documentary feature, The Boys of Baraka (9 and Up), winner of documentary prizes at the Newport Beach, Atlanta and Chicago film festivals
Documentary feature Hope for the Future (14 and Up), which is the follow-up film to Teaching Peace in a Time of War, which screened at BIFF Kids 2005
Alosha (5 and Up), the highest-grossing Russian animated film of all time from the makers of last year's BIFF Kids animated hit, Little Longnose
The festival closes with the feature film, Joni's Promise (14 and Up), a romantic comedy suitable for ages 14 and up that has screened at many of the world's leading festivals - Barcelona, Sydney, Tokyo, Seattle, and more.
BIFF Kids screenings will take place at the Liberty Theatre. Tickets for BIFF Kids will go on sale online at www.biff.bm at 10 a.m. on Wednesday October 4. The festival box office opens at the same time on the same date at the Visitors Service Bureau, Front Street, Hamilton. The box office will be open daily, except Sunday, through Friday October 13 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Tickets will also be available at the door.
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