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9th brooklyn international film festival
 BiFF's
9th edition is scheduled for June 2-11, 2006 and will be held at
the Brooklyn Museum.
http://brooklynfilmfestival.org/events/2006/festival.asp
2006 THEME
The 9th Brooklyn International Film Festival has been titled Enigma-9.
While people all over the world are eagerly searching for answers
in a world of uncertainties, and the complexity of modern life makes
it more difficult to answer moral questions, the festival engages
in a rather enigmatic exploration: The quest for the most delicate
and difficult questions of our times. BiFF 2006 aims to stimulate
the intellect and inspire conversation among people of diverse backgrounds.
It is about attempting to connect the dots and can be viewed as
a vast puzzle where opposite viewpoints, inconsistencies, ambiguities
strive to coexist.
FESTIVAL BACKGROUND
The Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF), was established
in 1998 as the first international competitive film festival in
New York. Conceptually unique, the festival has grown exponentially
each year in terms of number of submissions, program quality and
size, international exposure, media coverage, audience attendance
and participation, sponsorship, endorsements, community outreach,
and budget. Since 2002, BiFF has been partnering with the Brooklyn
Museum, which is BiFF's main venue. Films are shown at the 450-seat,
state of the art Cantor Auditorium. Since its inception, the festival
has reviewed more than 6,000 films. For the 2005 edition, BiFF received
1,750 films from 80 countries and selected 143 film premieres to
be part of the competitive program. At the 2005 festival, over a
10-day period, 10,500 customers attended BiFF's 33 film programs.
BiFF's primary work is to connect filmmakers to distribution companies
and expose them to the media. As a result, every year an increasing
number of films get sold at the festival. Many films that premiered
at BiFF in the past few years had their theatrical release and/or
are available at video stores near you.
MISSION
BiFF's mission is to discover, expose, and promote independent filmmakers
while drawing worldwide attention to Brooklyn as a center for cinema.
BiFF is a festival for and by independent filmmakers. BiFF is a
501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
SCHEDULE
Opening Night is scheduled for Friday, June 2, 2006. The opening
ceremony will be staged in the Brooklyn Museum's Cantor Auditorium
at 7pm. The film program will run from 7:30pm to 9:30pm. Opening
night film is TBD. From 8:30 to 12:30pm, BiFF stages the opening
night concert/party in the Brooklyn Museum's Beaux-Arts Court. On
Saturday, June 3 and Saturday June 10, four film programs: 2, 4,
6, 8pm. On Sunday June 4, four film programs: 2-5:30-7:30-9:30pm.
The 2pm will be dedicated to children's programming (kidsfilmfest)
and will be free of charge for children under 12. From Monday June
5 to Friday June 9, three film programs (6-8-10) will run from 6pm
to 11:30pm; On Sunday June 11, four film programs: 2, 4, 6, 8pm.
The Award Ceremony will follow from 10 to 10:30pm.
FORMATS & AWARDS
The Festival supports all formats (35mm, 16mm, HD, DVD, Beta, DV,
and CD.) The films are divided in five categories: Feature Length
Film (Narrative), Documentary, Short Subject, Experimental Film,
and Animation. A panel of journalists, film festival directors,
and film related professionals grade each film to select the best
in its category, awarding the Chameleon Statuette to each of the
winners. The festival board selects the best film of the year among
the five winners, awarding it the Grand Chameleon Award ($30,000
in film services.)
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