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Back Alley Film Festival
Where: Tucson, Arizona
When: May 27, 2006
Background: "The Back Alley Film Festival" is a festival
which Erik Hulten and Joshua M. Dragotta have created. In reality
ithe venue is nothing more than a huge white square painted
on a large brick wall in an alley. They painted a mural and
gave it a title (The Back Alley Cinema). But, when the sun goes
down the images fly. It's that grass roots type of festival
that gives the night a great feeling.
Email: backalleyfilms@yahoo.com
Web: www.backalleyfilmfestival.com
Back East Picture Show
Where: Hoboken, New Jersey
When: April 24-27, 2003(last known date)
Background: The Back East Picture Show, a competitive film festival,
will take place in the bustling city of Hoboken New Jersey,
along the Hudson waterfront. During this four-day event, more
than 30 works will be screened, including features, shorts,
animations and documentaries.
Tel: 201.239.1212
Email: info@backeastpictureshow.org
Web: www.backeastpictureshow.org
Bahamas World Film Festival
Where: Bahamas, Nassau/Paradise Island
When: November 17-22, 2004(last known date)
Background: Come join us as we bring a whole new experience
to the film festival curcuit. We'll screen features, shorts
and documentaties while sipping a Bahamas Mama. Indulge in the
"Art and Business" of filmmaking on the Beautiful
Island of Nassau,Bahamas.
Tel: 888.213.2137
Email: bahamas@bahamasfilmfestival.com
Web: www.bahamasfilmfestival.com
Banff Mountain Film Festival
Where: Banff, Alberta, Canada
When: October 28 - November 5, 2006
Background: "The Banff Mountain Film Festival is one of
the greatest if not the greatest film festival on mountaineeringmatters
in the world." So says Sir Edmund Hillary
Tel: 403.762.6125
Fax: 403.762.6277
Email: mountainculture@banffcentre.ca
Web: www.banffmountainfestivals.ca/festivals/film/
Bare Bones International Film Festival
Where: Muskogee, Oklahoma
When: April 23-29, 2007
Background: To preserve the Art, Culture and Exhibition of Bare
Bones Cinema.
To foster the continuing education and enhancement of independent
movie producers, crew directors, writers and actors.
Tel: 918-391-1313
Email: barebonesfilmfest@yahoo.com
Web: www.barebones.uni.cc
Berlin and Beyond
Where: San Francisco, CA
When: January 11-17, 2007
Background: Despite drastic cuts in public funding on both sides
of the Atlantic, BERLIN & BEYOND is still going strong and
happily welcomes you to the wonderful Castro Theatre. This year’s
program is as diverse and original as our audiences have come
to expect.
Tel: 415.263.8760
Fax: 415.391.8715
Email: program@goethe-sf.org
Web: http://www.goethe.de/uk/saf/bb2004/index.htm
Bermuda International Film Festival
Where: Hamilton, Bermuda
When: March 17-25, 2006
Background: The Bermuda International Film Festival is a registered
charity established in 1997. Our mission is to advance the love
of independent film from around the world, and create a community
welcoming to filmmakers and filmgoers.
Tel: 441.293.3456
Fax: 441.293.7769
Email: bdafilm@ibl.bm
Web: www.bermudafilmfest.com
Beverly Hills Film Festival
Where: Beverly Hills, California
When: April 11-15, 2007
Background: Beverly Hills Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing
and promoting some of the most auspicious non-studio films and
screenplays to the entertainment elite. Designed to bridge the
world of premiere independent cinema with the renowned community
of Beverly Hills, the festival is an entertainment event with
world class screenings at The Clarity Theatre, nightly theme
parties, seminars and a charity benefit.
Tel: 310.779.1206
Email: info@beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com
Web: www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com
Bicycle Film Festival
Where: Chicago
When: August 10-12,
2006
Background: Geared towards anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle
featuring films, performance art and special appearances in
celebration of bicycle culture!
Tel: 212.726.8505
Email: brendt@bicyclefilmfestival.com
Web: www.bicyclefilmfestival.com
Big Muddy Film Festival
Where: Carbondale, Illinois
When: February 24 - March 6, 2006
Background: The Big Muddy Film Festival is one of the oldest
student/community-run film festivals in the country. Created
to bring films not typically available to the community, the
first Big Muddy Film Festival was held in late March of 1979.
Tel: 618.453.1482
Fax: 618.453.2264
Email: bigmuddy@siu.edu
Web: www.bigmuddyfilm.com
Birmingham International Educational Film Festival
Where: Birmingham, Alabama
When: April 6-7, 2004(last known date)
Background: The Birmingham International Educational Film Festival
is a non-profit organization with a history of providing educational
opportunities to students in Alabama and across the nation.
Each year BIEFF sponsors the Student Video Expo.
Tel: 205.328.8756 ext. 146
Web: www.bham.net/bieff
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Where: Jersey City, New Jersey
When: January 5 to June 29, 2004(last known date)
Background: Named for Thomas edison's 19th-century laboratory
Black Maria, which contained one of the first-known movie studios.
Contact: Black Maria Festival
Department of Media Arts. Jersey City State College
203 West Side Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Email: info@blackmariafilmfestival.org
Web: www.blackmariafilmfestival.org
Black Point Film Festival
Where: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
When: April 21-25, 2004(last known date)
Background: BPF desires freedom of expression through film,
video, music and art. Our objective is to create an outlet for
independent filmmakers, musicians and artists to showcase their
work and to assist in their promotion as well as giving the
area communities a chance to experience them.
Tel: 1.262.740.2733
Email: bpff2005@yahoo.com
Web: www.blackpointfilmfestival.com
Bloodchalker
Where: Canada
When: May 20, 2003(last known date)
Background: We are a horror collective who live by a carefully
collected Mission Statement which guides us in our struggle
to fully realize horror. We tear gore and critical theory away
from their respective reeking contexts and press them wetly
together over and over and over again. What results is never
consistent, never clean and easy. Yet, our creations are inexorably
compelling.
Email: chantelle@bloodchalker.com
Web: www.bloodchalker.com
Blue Sky International Film Festival
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
When: September 25-28, 2003(last known date)
Background: Founded in 1997, BSIFF has been dedicated to the
discovery and exhibition of new talent within the independent
world of filmmaking. Since that time, BSIFF has become the best
source for independent and world cinema in Las Vegas.
Email: info@bsiff.com
Web: www.bsiff.com
Boston Film Festival
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
When: September 8-15, 2006
Background: This respectable, if not altogether imaginatively
programmed, fall festival screens at the Sony Copley Plaza Theaters
and the Kendall Square Cinemas.
Tel: 617.421.4499
Email: gemsad@aol.com
Web: www.bostonfilmfestival.org
Boston International Film Festival
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
When: June 6-13, 2007
Background: The Boston International Film Festival was created
in order to celebrate the art of filmmaking and honoring the
filmmakers who make it all possible. This is a festival to reward
artists for their individual talent and their expression through
creativity. The festival strives to bring together local, national
and international filmmakers to Boston by promoting the world’s
most artistic and creative independent and experimental film.
Tel: 617-426-4600
Email: info@bifilmfestival.com
Web: www.bifilmfestival.com
Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
When: April 3-6, 2004(last known date)
Background: The festival screens at Boston's excellent Brattle
Theater, holds panel discussions, and provides workshops conducted
by major women directors.
Tel: 917.876.0838
Web: www.beaconcinema.com/womfest
Boston Irish Film Festival
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
When: Nov 17-21, 2006
Background: Presented by Magners Irish Cider, the Boston Irish
Film Festival (BIFF) is the largest festival of its kind in
the United States. The annual 5-day festival (scheduled in October)
features the very best of contemporary Irish and Irish-related
film and video and offers awards in three main categories: Best
Feature, Best Documentary, and Best Short Fiction/Animation.
Tel: 617-713-0831
Web: www.irishfilmfestival.com/biffhome.html
Boston Jewish Film Festival
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
When: November 1-12, 2006
Background: The Boston Jewish Film Festival has grown from 10
screenings to more than 30 at our Boston venues and additional
screenings north and south of the city.
Tel: 617.244.9899
Email: info@bjff.org
Web: www.bjff.org
Brandon Film Festival
Where: Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
When: March 27-29, 2003(last known date)
Background: The festival is still screens at the Evans Theatre
in the university's library arts building and is noteworthy
for being the second most interesting festival in Brandon.
Tel: 204.727.9704
Breckenridge Festival of Film
Where: Breckenridge, Colorado
When: September 8-11, 2006
Background: Hey, any film festival that has film critic Jeffrey
Lyons on its board of directors has to be doing something right.
Tel: 970.453.6200
Fax: 970.453.2692
Address:
PO Box 718 or 150 W. Adams Ave.
Breckenridge, CO 80424
Email: filmfest@brecknet.com
Web: www.breckfilmfest.com/home/index.php
Brooklyn Arts Council International Film & Video Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: April - May, 2006
Background: The BAC International Film and Video Festival has
served independent film and video artists for 35 years, the
longest running event of its kind in Brooklyn. The Festival
provides opportunities for film and video artists to show their
work to other artists, critics, the media and an enthusiastic
New York audience. The Festival also serves Brooklyn and the
wider New York community by providing quality film and video
programs from all over the world, free of charge.
Tel: 718.625.0080
Fax: 718.625.3294
Email: bac@brooklynartscouncil.org
Web: www.brooklynartscouncil.org
Brooklyn International Film Festival
Where: Brooklyn, New York
When: June 2-11, 2006
Background: The Brooklyn International Film Festival (BIFF),
formerly known as Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival (WBFF),
is an International, competitive festival for and by independent
film makers.
Tel: 718.388.4306, 718.486.8181, 718.486.5889
Fax: 718.599.5039
Email: 2004@wbff.org
Web: www.brooklynfilmfestival.org
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival
Where: Brooklyn, New York
When: April 19-23, 2006
Background: Brooklyn Underground Film Festival is an outlet
for emerging and radical new voices from around the globe. The
Brooklyn Underground's mission is to create a fresh arena for
discussion between artists, filmmakers, and audiences, with
a focus on personal cinema and work driven by new processes.
Email: info@brooklynunderground.org
Web: www.brooklynunderground.org
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