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Dates & Deadlines
Filmmakers Writers and Musicians
August 1, 2023
Regular Deadline
October 31, 2023
Late Deadline
December 29, 2023
Late Late Deadline
February 1, 2024
Notification Date
RULES / ELIGIBILITY
- Only Bahamian Premieres
- Films completed after Jan. 2023
- English subtitles for submission
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Winners at biff
NEW VISIONS
OUT AND ABOUT
Dir: Peter Callahan (USA)
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM
NARRATIVE
WHEN TIME GOT LOUDER
Dir: Connie Cocchia (Canada)
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM
DOCUMENTARY
ON OUR OWN ISLAND
Dir: Sky Robbins, Ellie Dylan (USA)
SHORT
THE KICKSLED CHOIR
Dir: Torfinn Iversen (Norway)
WRITERS PROGRAM WINNERS
Writer Jomo Merritt (USA)
Journal of A Dinka Boy, Chronicles the experiences of a young boy in Sudan. Triplets NOAH, SIMON and MATTHEW’S mother dies in childbirth. Superstitious beliefs attribute her death and their birth to the fact that their mother was the daughter of an adulteress.
Writer Mahmoud Salimi (Afghanistan)
Roya, In a province in Afghanistan, life goes on much as it has for centuries. While the international newspapers focus on the wars and the opium trade, villagers go about their daily lives -- farming, practicing their religion and raising their children. This is the story (based on actual events) of two families, who are bound by a tragic sense of honor and tradition, which leads to a bloody feud.
2023 BIFF review
Morgan Freeman received the 2023 Sidney Poitier Tribute Award Sunday, May 7th 2023 Atlantis Theater
Followed by the Closing Night Film SIDNEY, about a Bahamian Actor, one of the greatest actors of all time. SIDNEY
BIFF has attracted A-List celebrities such as the former Sir Sean Connery, Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, Debra Messing, Cicely Tyson, Heather Graham, Zoe Saldana, Alan Arkin, Roger Corman, Jeffrey Wright, Daryl Hannah, Grace Jones, Anna Faris, Chaz Ebert, Danny Glover, Sophie Okonedo, Naomie Harris, Zoe Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Roger Guenveur Smith, Michael K Williams, Rae Dawn Chong, Lee Daniels and many more.
BIFF 2023 was a great success showing 66 films from 20 countries.
2023 BIFF Official Photos by John Gomez Link
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