Bakersfield Independent Film Festival is back the June! Submit now! - By N.L. Belardes
BIFF needs your movie and short film submissions!
Last year I helped out with the first ever Bakersfield Independent Film Festival (BIFF) at the Spotlight Theatre. I made some posters, helped promote, and talked on the radio a little about how excited I was to be a part of BIFF.
Photo of last year's BIFF poster at Spotlight Theatre
Creative genius Roger Mathey started up the film festival as a way to better promote local filmmakers. The problem is not the Kern Film Festival. The Kern Film Festival has its own solid agenda of showing mostly famous movies filmed in the Bakersfield area.
BIFF promises to show films by filmmakers with a Bakersfield connection. That means you don’t have to actually reside in Bakersfield or be from Bakersfield to show your film at BIFF. You just have to be connected. A few degrees of separation might just hold a slot for your movie-making prowess to be shown off. BIFF is all about connections between community and people. The film festival is a celebration of local film buffs, hobbyists, and the serious actors, actresses and filmmakers of the future who are connected to the Southern San Joaquin Valley.
Here’s a sample of Scott Chesire’s BIFF contribution in a scene from his cult film, TV Party Tonight. This is a scene built from a dozen vintage toy commercials, an Alice Cooper song and old propaganda war footage:
You can see the entire TV Party Tonight film at BIFF!
Roger Mathey hopes to build on last year’s successful first run.
I’ll be making another poster design like I donated last year. And lots of folks will be donating their time and artwork to a worthy cause.
In the meantime, if you have a film submission, please contact Roger Mathey at the Spotlight Theatre. The festival is just a few weeks away and is scheduled for the 3rd week of June, 2006. Don't miss out!!
Film Submission Contact:
Roger Mathey
Executive Director
Spotlight Theatre
1622 19th Street
Bakersfield, CA 93301
661 634 0692 office
310 930 7254 cell
Last year I helped out with the first ever Bakersfield Independent Film Festival (BIFF) at the Spotlight Theatre. I made some posters, helped promote, and talked on the radio a little about how excited I was to be a part of BIFF.
Photo of last year's BIFF poster at Spotlight Theatre
Creative genius Roger Mathey started up the film festival as a way to better promote local filmmakers. The problem is not the Kern Film Festival. The Kern Film Festival has its own solid agenda of showing mostly famous movies filmed in the Bakersfield area.
BIFF promises to show films by filmmakers with a Bakersfield connection. That means you don’t have to actually reside in Bakersfield or be from Bakersfield to show your film at BIFF. You just have to be connected. A few degrees of separation might just hold a slot for your movie-making prowess to be shown off. BIFF is all about connections between community and people. The film festival is a celebration of local film buffs, hobbyists, and the serious actors, actresses and filmmakers of the future who are connected to the Southern San Joaquin Valley.
Here’s a sample of Scott Chesire’s BIFF contribution in a scene from his cult film, TV Party Tonight. This is a scene built from a dozen vintage toy commercials, an Alice Cooper song and old propaganda war footage:
You can see the entire TV Party Tonight film at BIFF!
Roger Mathey hopes to build on last year’s successful first run.
I’ll be making another poster design like I donated last year. And lots of folks will be donating their time and artwork to a worthy cause.
In the meantime, if you have a film submission, please contact Roger Mathey at the Spotlight Theatre. The festival is just a few weeks away and is scheduled for the 3rd week of June, 2006. Don't miss out!!
Film Submission Contact:
Roger Mathey
Executive Director
Spotlight Theatre
1622 19th Street
Bakersfield, CA 93301
661 634 0692 office
310 930 7254 cell
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