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(TRAILER) The Weinstein Company’s Acclaimed “The King’s Speech” Selected As BIFF Closing Night Film
By Dennis Dembia
Dec 5, 2010 - 9:58:18 AM
Nassau, Bahamas
– Festival Founder and Executive
Director Leslie Vanderpool today announced the final program details
for the 7th edition of the Bahamas International Film Festival
(BIFF), which takes place December 1-5, 2010 in Nassau. The Weinstein
Company’s highly acclaimed period drama “The King’s Speech”
has been selected as this year’s closing night film.
Based on the true story
of the Queen of England's father and his remarkable friendship with
maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue “The King's Speech”
stars Academy Award® nominee Colin Firth (A Single Man) as King George
VI, who unexpectedly becomes King when his brother Edward abdicates
the throne. Academy Award® Winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine) stars as Logue,
the man who helps the King find a voice with which to lead the nation
into war.
The multi-award-winning
cast includes Helena Bonham Carter (“Alice In Wonderland”) as Queen
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Guy Pearce (“The Hurt Locker”), Derek
Jacobi (“The Golden Compass”), Timothy Spall (“The Damned United”)
and Michael Gambon (“Harry Potter”). The film is directed by Tom
Hooper (“The Damned United”) from a screenplay by David Seidler
(“Tucker: The Man and His Dream”).
This year, the Festival
will showcase
56 films from
17 different countries, including 27 features
of which several are world or international premieres and nearly all
Bahamian premieres. The four competition categories at BIFF are
Spirit
of Freedom: Narrative;
Spirit of Freedom: Documentary;
New Visions; and
Short Film. Special sections include Caribbean
and Environmental sidebars as well as a World Cinema showcase.
The official BIFF feature
lineup is comprised of the following films:
SPIRIT
OF FREEDOM (NARRATIVE) |
ELISA
K (Spain) / Director: Judith Colell |
LITTLE
ROSE (Poland) / Director: Jan Kidawa |
ATLETU
(Ethiopia) / Director: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew |
REFRACTAIRE
(Luxemburg) / Director: Nicolas Steil |
MASTER
HAROLD (South Africa, US) / Director: Lonny Price |
SPIRIT
OF FREEDOM (DOC) |
BHUTTU
(Pakistan) / Director: Johnny O’ Hara |
REVOLUTION
(Germany) / Director: Christian Kohlert
and Christoph Lehmann |
BUDRUS
(Palestine) / Director: Julia Bacha |
WAR
DON DON (Africa) / Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen |
FROM
SOMEWHERE TO NO WHERE (Switzerland) / Director: Villi Hermann |
BOUNCING
CATS (US) / Director: Dabi Elderkin |
NEW
VISIONS |
PINOY
SUNDAY (
Philippines)
/ Director:
Wi Ding Ho |
IMMIGRATION
TANGO (US) / Director: David Burton Morris |
HELLO
LONESOME (US) / Director: Adam Reid |
CRACKIE
(Canada) / Director: Sherry White |
NORMAN
(US) / Director: Jonathan Segal |
CARIBBEAN
SIDEBAR |
CRAZY
LOVE (Bahamas) / Director: Clarence Rolle |
GANGS
IN PARADISE (US) / Director: Lou Lambert |
BENEATH
THE BLUE (Bahamas /US) / Director: Michael D. Sellers |
WORLD
CINEMA |
CROCODILES
(Germany) / Director: Christian Ditter |
SALAM
RUGBY (IRAN) / Director: Faramarz Beheshti |
CHAIN
LETTER (US)/ Director: Deon Taylor |
ITS KIND
OF FUNNY STORY (US) / Director:
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden |
ENVIORNMENT
SIDEBAR Sponsored by The Nature Conservancy |
MASA
GOD FISH (Jamaica) / Director: Nathalie Zenny |
LION
FISH INVASION (Bahamas) / Director: Matthew Mccoy |
GARBAGE
DREAMS (Egypt, US)/ Director: Mai Iskander |
In addition, a list of the 36 short
films screening at the festival can be found online at
www.bintlfilmfest.com
.
It was previously announced
that Sony Pictures Classics’ critically lauded comedy “Tamara Drewe”
will be the Opening Film at this year’s festival. The Opening Night
Film screening will be on Thursday, December 2nd at the Atlantis
Theatre on Paradise Island. Directed by two time Academy Award® nominee
Stephen Frears (“High Fidelity,” “The Queen,” “Dangerous Liasons”),
the film stars Gemma Arterton (“Prince of Persia,” “Clash of the
Titans,” “Quantum of Solace”) in the title role, along with Roger
Allam (“V for Vendetta,” “The Queen”), Bill Camp (“Public
Enemies,” “Deception”), Dominic Cooper (“Mama Mia!” “An
Education”), Luke Evens (“Robin Hood,” “Clash of the Titans”)
and Tamisn Greig (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Falling Apart”).
The Bahamas International
Film Festival is also continuing its efforts to educate and inspire
a new generation of filmmakers. The Festival announced today that it
will be expanding its popular Youth Film Workshop during the seventh
annual BIFF by partnering with schools throughout Nassau and integrating
the workshops directly into classrooms.
BIFF is also proud to
be bringing back the Filmmaker’s Residency Program. In years past
BIFF has exclusively provided the Bahamian and Caribbean community with
the opportunity to receive invaluable mentoring from industry professionals.
This year BIFF has expanded to include filmmakers from around the world
to submit screenplays that are based in The Bahamas or Caribbean region.
The Filmmakers’ Residency
Program nurtures new filmmakers and screenwriters by providing them
with an unrivaled opportunity to spend a full day with accomplished
professionals who make a living working in the industry from Los Angeles
and New York.
BIFF 2010 begins Wednesday,
December 1st and runs through Sunday, December 5th.
For additional information please visit
www.bintlfilmfest.com
.
About the Bahamas
International Film Festival
The Bahamas International
Film Festival (BIFF) is a nonprofit organization committed to providing
the local community and international festival-goers with a diverse
presentation of films from the Bahamas and around the world. In addition
to showcasing films that might not otherwise be released theatrically,
BIFF provides unique cultural experiences, educational programs, and
forums for exploring the past, present and future of cinema. BIFF aims
to raise the level of filmmaking, participation and education throughout
the Bahamas and the world.
Key Sponsors of the
2010 BIFF are; Ministry of Tourism, Atlantis, RIU Hotel, Old Fort Bay
Club, The Nature Conservancy, Galleria Cinema JFK, Starbucks, Ministry
of Culture, Post Boxes Etc., Custom Computers, Bahamas Technical, Vocational
Institute, College of The Bahamas, The Tribune, Bahamas Local, Bahamas
Weekly and many more.
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