Buffalo International Film Festival

Happy Would-be Centennial Birthday James Baldwin!

Save the Date WNY for our screening of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine!”

In honor of the late, infinitely great James Baldwin, we’ll be hosting a free screening & BIFF Night School event w/ Dr. Donte McFadden, PhD at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center on Wed Sept 17 @ 7PM.

We’re thrilled to support our friends at Casting Buffalo - tickets for their August 3rd event are on sale now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/casting-buffalo-actors-expo-tickets-912246532937?aff=oddtdtcreator

We are thrilled to announce the BIFF: Buffalo International Film Festival as one of our official supporters of the Casting Buffalo Actors Expo 2024

BIFF runs October 10-17th 2024 in Buffalo, NY
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Buffalo International Film Festival (est. 2006) is a nonprofit organization that champions regional, national, and international films that push the limits of independent cinema – presenting quality films from around the world to WNY residents and visitors.

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Final Deadline Friday, 11:59PM - learn more + submit at

Buffalo International Film Festival Find your audience at Western New York's premiere cinematic event – the 18th Annual Buffalo International Film Festival! Every fall BIFF screens over 100 ...

Join our friends on Saturday for a day of screenings in Niagara Falls, NY!

Flyer Leak - Still in progress - but the streets need to know what's on it's way - Niagara Falls Juneteenth Film Festival - It's coming..thank you to our sponsors Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino Buffalo International Film Festival Black Film Week Buffalo Fatherhood Initiative and AMG

Thank you to WGRZ for covering our open call and the application for our Tilke Hill Work in Progress grant!

Opportunities at Buffalo International Film Festival this fall Since 2006, BIFF has been welcoming people from all over the world to Buffalo.

FREE SCREENING EVENT – UKRAINIAN FILM DOUBLE FEATURE ! TODAY, JUNE 22 11AM @ NIAGARA ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER

BELIEVE IN UKRAINE SHORT FILM PROGRAM
(52 minutes)

A collection of intimate shorts by contemporary Ukrainian filmmakers, this program offers a deep dive into the personal impacts of the war in Ukraine, often overlooked by mass media. Featuring short films by Anna Dudko, Alexandra Dzhiganskaya, Anastasia Kirii, Alina Panasenko, Babylon ’13, Mariia Felenko, Kateryna Krokha, Maksym Lukashov, Julia Shashkova, Orest Smilianets, and Viktoriia Turetska. Curated by Anastasia Kirii.

20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
(95 minutes)

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities. Director Mstyslav Chernov's first feature is an "unflinching looking at the human toll of the war in the Ukraine."

A FRONTLINE (PBS)/AP release.
2024 Academy Award® Best Documentary Feature Film

Presented by Spark Filmmakers Collaborative, in partnership with Buffalo Toronto Public Media and Buffalo Int'l Film Festival.

CALL FOR WORK! YOUTH + TEEN MEDIA MAKERS, SUBMIT YOUR SHORT VIDEO TODAY!

BIFF and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center are partnering to showcase film, video, and single channel media artworks made by students from across the nation. All video makers and filmmakers under 18 are invited to submit any moving image work between 10 seconds and 10 minutes long that they created.

There is no submission fee.

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of young media makers from Squeaky Wheel’s Teen Council, made up of advance-track students in Saturday Cafe; and BIFF and Squeaky Wheel staff.

Deadline: July 15th at 12pm EST

Join us this October at BIFF 2024 - one of FilmFreeway's Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals!

Final Deadline July 12 - https://filmfreeway.com/buffalofilm

Buffalo International Film Festival Find your audience at Western New York's premiere cinematic event – the 18th Annual Buffalo International Film Festival! Every fall BIFF screens over 100 ...

Relative, winner of our Best Narrative feature at BIFF 2022 is now streaming from Music Box Films!

It's time to gather the whole family.

RELATIVE, a warm comedic glimpse at a multi-generational reunion, is now available to stream on demand.

🚨Late Deadline Friday June 7 🚨

Buffalo International Film Festival Find your audience at Western New York's premiere cinematic event – the 18th Annual Buffalo International Film Festival! Every fall BIFF screens over 100 ...

Thank you WGRZ - Channel 2, Buffalo for sharing the news of our National Endowment for the Arts grant and congratulations to our fellow WNY recipients!

We’re grateful for the NEA’s continued support as we grow our festival to a full week event. Our fiscal sponsors help us achieve various goals including direct support for participating filmmakers, audience development, and our educational programs.

We look forward to seeing everyone October 10-17th for BIFF 2024!

2 local non-profits receive grant from National Endowment for the Arts The money will be used to help organizations and non-profits support artists, musician, exhibitions, education programs and public outreach.

Join us Oct 10-17th in for our annual celebration of film, music, art and more!

Regular deadline Friday at filmfreeway.com/buffalofilm

Join us for 8 days of cinema, art, performances and more - October 10-17th in !

Submissions are open at filmfreeway.com/buffalofilm

Buffalo International Film Festival Buffalo Int'l Film Festival (est. 2006) champions indie cinema, amplifying diverse voices and offering workshops, seminars, and more to WNY.

Find your audience this fall in Buffalo, NY at BIFF 2024 - October 10-17th

Early deadline April 8 - more at filmfreeway.com/buffalofilm

BIFF Board Member and Cinephile extraordinaire Renee and our Artistic Director John are in Austin this week attending !

Congradulations to our 2023 Closing Night Spotlight and Decolonial Spotlight FANCY DANCE which will recieve a theatrical release via Apple Original Films later this year!

Apple Lands Lily Gladstone Feature ‘Fancy Dance’ a Year After Sundance Debut The movie premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, with filmmakers questioning late last year why a distribution deal had not materialized for the well reviewed film.

Don’t miss the early bird deadline! Submit today on FilmFreeway 🎥🦬
filmfreeway.com/buffalofilm

Buffalo International Film Festival Find your audience at Western New York's premiere cinematic event – the 18th Annual Buffalo International Film Festival! Every fall BIFF screens over 100 ...

Join us on Wednesday, February 28 at 7PM - 8PM for a free, online color workshop!

In this workshop, professional colorist Patrice D. Bowman will teach participants about the basics of color correction, color grading, and color theory. Instruction will include a brief live color grading demonstration in DaVinci Resolve. This workshop will help participants to have a greater understanding of how to color their film and/or how to collaborate with colorists for their project.

Space is limited and advance registration is required. Register today @ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biff-night-school-intro-to-color-workshop-tickets-814303964077

We are thrilled to share that we are the recent recipient of a $2,000 Give for Greatness Grant from Arts Services Inc. This grant was designed to provide general operating support to small nonprofit arts and culture organizations in WNY to help build their internal capacity. Thank you Arts Services Inc. - ASI for supporting our festival and organization!

It is our pleasure to announce the 2023 “Give for Greatness” Grantees! These twenty-five arts and culture nonprofits will receive $2,000 in general operating support for their work in Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, and Niagara counties. These grants are designed to help WNY’s smallest nonprofits build their internal capacity, making their mission-driven work easier. Since 2014, Give for Greatness has provided over $280,000 in funding to more than 130 different arts and culture nonprofits in WNY. The organizations are selected by a panel of local arts and culture leaders from across the region.

We invite you to visit our webpage to learn more about the 2023 Grant recipients and their unique projects, ranging from theater and dance to music and visual arts. You will discover how they are enriching the lives of their audiences, participants, and communities through their creative work and outreach.

https://www.asiwny.org/give-for-greatness-grants/

Please join us in congratulating the 2023 Give for Greatness grantees and celebrating their achievements.

BIFF Alum Alex Haughey's UNDER THE INFLUENCER is available nationwide (Amazon, Google, Vudu, etc) starting December 12. If you missed it during the festival, it's not too late! You can pre-order on iTunes and Vimeo (where viewers can get 50% off with the code: influencer50).

BIFF 2023 short film "You're NOT for ART!" returns with a special conversation with director and SPARK Filmmakers Collaborative founder and executive director Lukia Costello.

Saturday December 9th at Fritz Books and Waffles. Tickets:

You're NOT for ART! - film screening & artist chat You're NOT for ART! - who is an artist and what is art?

Join us today for a FREE encore presentation of BIFF Shorts: Racial Justice in View at 12pm and Into the Spotlight (Sensory Friendly Screening) at 2:30pm at Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Downtown Main Branch. Tickets available at the door.

Join us tomorrow - Dec 2 for two FREE BIFF 2023 Encores at Buffalo & Erie County Public Library - Central Library:

12:00PM - BIFF SHORTS: RACIAL JUSTICE IN VIEW (Free BIFF 2023 Encore)
2:30PM - INTO THE SPOTLIGHT - Sensory Friendly Screening (FREE BIFF 2023 Encore)

RSVP recommended but not required!

Tonight!

This Thursday, 6:30 pm at Squeaky Wheel: Join us for a free work-in-progress screening of Avye Alexandres' Compass - fiscally sponsored by BIFF!

This Thursday, 6:30 pm at Squeaky Wheel: Join us for a free work-in-progress screening of Avye Alexandres' Compass!

Compass follows four women as they each pack a bag and leave home. It is a 4-channel film installation incorporating individual soundscapes and the film actors in a live performance. The artist’s talk on this work-in-progress will include a screening of one preliminary short-film, experiments in sound design, additional exploratory film footage, and a live performance component, with a short Q&A. We're thrilled to welcome our former resident, current teaching artist, and a NYSCA Support for Artists grantee to our space; learn more at the link in our bio and join us!



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Join us on Saturday at 2:30PM for a FREE Sensory Friendly Screening of Into The Spotlight. The screening will be shown at a lower volume with the dim lighting in a welcoming environment that allows audiences members to get up and move around as needed.

Into the Spotlight Encore An exploration of creativity, community, life’s complexities, and empowerment.

This year BIFF was grateful and honored to be able to present the premieres of 190 films from all over the world, state, and region in local theaters across the City of Buffalo. From affordable and free screenings with live filmmaker Q+As, to our free panel programming in person and online, special screenings and events, live performances, and media art exhibitions – BIFF remained focused on expanding opportunities for unique storytellers and our audiences, as we have for the past seventeen years.

The BIFF team works hard to support, amply, and elevate the film and arts communities that we serve and the WNY community that we love. Whether it is offering finishing funds for a WNY-made short narrative film; providing fiscal support to our creative communities and makers here in WNY; offering experiential learning opportunities and avenues for community engagement; or bringing internationally renowned cinematic programming, filmmakers and artists to our community; BIFF is dedicated to helping our film and arts community in WNY succeed—and your support makes that possible.

Please consider supporting BIFF this Giving Tuesday by donating the price of admission to a movie or whatever you can afford at buffalofilm.org/support ❤️