The Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) is proud to announce the winners for its annual festival, themed DECOY. The competitive event ran from June 1 through June 10 at indieScreen in Williamsburg and Brooklyn Heights Cinema. Winners were chosen from 104 film premieres that were selected from over 2,000 submissions coming from 111 countries. This year, BFF featured more than 30 New York City based film directors with over a dozen projects shot in Brooklyn. Through the resources of ind...

2011 WINNERSThe Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) is proud to announce the winners for its annual festival, themed PLOT presented by Samsung Mobile. Through the resources of industry-related sponsors, the Brooklyn Film Festival awarded the 2011 winners with a total of $50,000 in prizes and film services. Prizes Sponsored by: Panavision NY, AbelCine, Xeno Lights, Cinecall Soundtracks, Avid, Script Pipeline, Media Services, Raquelle Bianco, and Samsung Mobile. GRAND CHAMELEON AWARDBATTLE FOR BROOKLYN b...

Reading what Brooklyn International Film Festival executive director Marco Ursino has to say about "Stunt," the theme of this year's edition (June 4 to 13, 2010) in Brooklyn, New York, I can't help but wonder if he's been fraternizing with his title sponsor, Bushmills Irish Whiskey: "With Stunt, the festival intends to take a snapshot at some of the hottest issues affecting our times while emphasizing the weight and gravity of being on a critical collision path with histo...

  Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival (BiFF) is proud to announce its 13th annual festival themed Stunt. The festival has received over 2,400 films from 92 countries. The competitive event will run from June 4-13 at both indieScreen, a brand new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights Cinema in Brooklyn Heights. The festival will present 120 film premieres and will announce the full lineup on May 15, 2010.   Opening night film presentation will be staged on June 4 at Br...

13th Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival: June 4-13, 2010 FILM SUBMISSION DEADLINE Categories: Feature, Documentary, Short, Experimental, Animation Awards: $60,000 in services, products, and cash. Early Deadline: November 30, 2009 (posted by) Film Festival Dates: June 4-13, 2010 + click for more info or to submit online Nathan Kensinger, Programmer 13th Brooklyn International Film Festival 180 South 4th Street, Ste 2 South, Brooklyn, New York 11211 - USA submit10@wbff.or...

By Maria Esteves - June 20, 2009 The 12th Brooklyn International Film Festival 2009 (BIFF) New York Premiere of EM, written and directed by Tony Barbieri, was held at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, New York, Tuesday, June 9, 7:00 pm. A special Q&A with producer Jim Jermanok preceded the film's premiere after party at Rebar. Producers Jim Jermanok and Harry Gregson-Williams were honored the 2009 BIFF Outstanding Achievement in Production Award.   EM is the most extraordinary and cap...

  XII. BROOKLYN INT'L FILM FESTIVAL June 5 - June 14 @ Brooklyn Heights Cinema 2009 WINNERS GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD BREAKING UPWARDS by DARYL WEIN   Best Feature Film BREAKING UPWARDS by DARYL WEIN   Best Documentary (AKA Diane Seligman Award) THE HILLSIDE CROWD by BERNI GOLDBLAT   Best Short Subject: THE CHAMBERMAID by ANN HOLMGREN   Best Animation PASSAGES by MARIE-JOSEE SAINT-PIERRE   Best Experimenta...

XII. BROOKLYN INT'L FILM FESTIVALJune 5 - June 14 @ Brooklyn Heights Cinema 2009 WINNERS GRAND CHAMELEON AWARDBREAKING UPWARDS by DARYL WEIN Best Feature Film BREAKING UPWARDS by DARYL WEIN Best Documentary (AKA Diane Seligman Award) THE HILLSIDE CROWD by BERNI GOLDBLAT Best Short Subject: THE CHAMBERMAID by ANN HOLMGREN Best AnimationPASSAGES by MARIE-JOSEE SAINT-PIERRE Best Experimental filmSOARING, ROARING, DIVING by MIRIAM HARRIS & JULIET PALMER SPIRIT AWARDS Short Subject THE DI...

GRAND CHAMELEON AWARDFIX directed by TAO RUSPOLIBEST NARRATIVE FEATURE FIX directed by TAO RUSPOLIBEST DOCUMENTARY - Diane Seligman Award CARNY directed by ALISON MURRAYBEST NARRATIVE SHORT ON THE LINE directed by RETO CAFFIBEST EXPERIMENTAL FLYING LESSON directed by R. CHAMECKI, P. HARDER, A. LERNERBEST ANIMATION 24 FRAMES directed by BRAD PATTULLOSPIRIT AWARDSFeature APOLLO 54 directed by GIORDANO GIULIVIDocumentary ABC COLOMBIA directed by ENRICA COLUSSOShort THE LINE directed by KENT BASSETT...

Friday, June 1-------On its tenth anniversary, the Brooklyn International Film Festival (BIFF) is reinventing itself. The Festival has launched a thematic challenge entitled IDENTITY, which is in part a self-search to find its unique identity in a sea of New York film events, and to assist its audiences in redefining what it means to be Brooklynites, now that the outer borough is going through a cultural renaissance and is one of New York's "cool" destinations.The Festival, runnin...

9th BROOKLYN INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (BiFF)2006 edition winnersGrand Chameleon AwardBLOOD: DEATH DOES NOT EXISTBest FeatureBLOOD: DEATH DOES NOT EXISTBest Documentary / Diane Seligman AwardRADIOPHOBIABest ShortOUSMANEBest ExperimentalCAROUSEL RITEBest Animation (ex-equo)JOURNEY TO MARSCRAB REVOLUTIONBrooklyn Excellence AwardDOUGLAS STEINER, Chairman of Steiner Studios Spirit Awards:films in which the festival recognizes its own spiritFeature: AHLAAMDocumentary: BEFORE FLYING BACK TO THE EARTHShort:...

Brooklyn International Film Festival BIFF June 3-12Established in 1998 for independent film makers as the ‘first international competitive film festival in New York” the BIIF has the mission to “connect film makers to distribution companies” and to “draw worldwide attention to Brooklyn as a center for the arts”. The 2005 edition presented 115 films originating in 80 countries from the about 1700 productions which had been submitted, including for the first time a one day children...