Bahamas International Film Festival

Founder & Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool, created the Bahamas International Film Festival in 2004. The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) is a non-profit organized film festival that presents films from around the world to the local Bahamian community and international visitors.

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BIFF also organizes a youth film workshop that aims at providing young Bahamians access to resources on filmmaking.[2]

The BIFF held in 2015 showed several female-driven films, such as Carol and Janis: Little Girl Blue of international acclaim.[3]

BIFF was listed among the 25 coolest film festivals in the world by moviemaker.com.[4]

References

  1. Tsang, Denise; Kazeroony, Hamid H.; Ellis, Guy (19 June 2013). The Routledge Companion to International Management Education. Routledge. ISBN 9781134112425.
  2. "thebahamasweekly.com - RBC sponsors $10,000 to 2016 BIFF Youth Film Workshop". www.thebahamasweekly.com. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  3. "'Carol', 'Janis: Little Girl Blue' bookend Bahamas fest". Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  4. "The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2015 - MovieMaker Magazine". 2 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2016.


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