This year’s festival ran online from January 4-10.
Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo has won the New Visions prize at the 17th Bahamas International Film Festival (Biff), which closed its online edition yesterday (January 10).
It is the latest festival recognition for the France-Belgium-Luxembourg co-production, which launched at Sundance 2020 and has also played at Berlinale and Jeonju. It was nominated for the Discovery prize at last year’s European Film Awards.
Wittock’s debut feature stars Noémie Merlant as a young woman who works in an amusement park and finds herself attracted to the new flagship ride.
The Biff Spirit of...
Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo has won the New Visions prize at the 17th Bahamas International Film Festival (Biff), which closed its online edition yesterday (January 10).
It is the latest festival recognition for the France-Belgium-Luxembourg co-production, which launched at Sundance 2020 and has also played at Berlinale and Jeonju. It was nominated for the Discovery prize at last year’s European Film Awards.
Wittock’s debut feature stars Noémie Merlant as a young woman who works in an amusement park and finds herself attracted to the new flagship ride.
The Biff Spirit of...
- 1/11/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Bahamas International Film Festival announced Tuesday that the indie dramas "Children of God" and "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire" will open and close its sixth annual festival, which runs Dec. 10-17 on Paradise Island and Nassau.
"Children of God" was written, directed and produced by Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer, who shot the film locally in Nassau and Eleuthera. As the fest's opening-night film, "Children of God" (originally titled "Daybreak") will screen at the Atlantis Theatre on Paradise Island on Dec. 11.
"The film is a subtle and haunting look at race, sexuality and religion in the Bahamas, which makes it a very timely and important film and also an extremely gorgeous one to look at," Mortimer said. "We are very proud of this effort, and to open at the Bahamas International Film Festival is a dream come true."
"Precious," written by Geoffrey Fletcher and directed by Lee Daniels,...
"Children of God" was written, directed and produced by Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer, who shot the film locally in Nassau and Eleuthera. As the fest's opening-night film, "Children of God" (originally titled "Daybreak") will screen at the Atlantis Theatre on Paradise Island on Dec. 11.
"The film is a subtle and haunting look at race, sexuality and religion in the Bahamas, which makes it a very timely and important film and also an extremely gorgeous one to look at," Mortimer said. "We are very proud of this effort, and to open at the Bahamas International Film Festival is a dream come true."
"Precious," written by Geoffrey Fletcher and directed by Lee Daniels,...
- 11/10/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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