Attracting more than 25,000 film enthusiasts annually, the four-day Boulder International Film Festival is a platform for filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds to feature their new films to a wide-ranging audience of cinephiles from all over the world. Since 2004, BIFF’s developed a strong reputation as one of the most influential young film festivals in […]
Trevor Noah, the subject of David Paul Meyer’s “Township to the Stage.” By Brad WeismannBIFF DigiComm Director Township to the StageFriday, Feb. 17, 9:45 p.m.First United Methodist Church It will be my privilege to get up and introduce this film in a few hours. The phrases “South Africa” and “comedy” don’t really seem to go […]
By Andy McLellanIn 1964, General Efraín Ríos Montt became the dictatorial leader of Guatemala. For the next 20 years, the indigenous Mayan population of the most populated country in Central America was subjected to an extended and brutal military campaign, secretly waged with the support of the United States government. Death tolls are estimated to […]
Love Free or Die: How the Bishop of New Hampshire is Saving the WorldFriday, Feb. 17, 2:45 p.m.First United Methodist Church After this film ends, please join us and the director, Macky Alston, and Alicia Lewis of Out Boulder for a very special Call 2 Action talkback session in the Tent! Here’s a wonderful preliminary […]
By Donna Crain BIFF Workshops and Panels Coordinator and DigiComm Commando Monsieur Lazhar Friday, Feb. 17, 2:45 p.m. Boulder Theater Someone asked me what film I would recommend seeing at BIFF this year and I immediately thought of the Academy Award-nominated “Monsieur Lazhar,” which I had the opportunity to screen a few weeks ago. It’s […]
By Kristen Daly BIFF DigiComm Commando Bitter SeedsFriday, Feb. 17, 12:30 p.m.Boulder Theater Micha X. Peled’s documentary Bitter Seeds explores the answer to a shocking question: Why have 250,000 farmers committed suicide in India in the last 16 years? To answer this question, Peled connects with a young, aspiring journalist, Manjusha Amberwar, from the farming […]
Nicky’s Family Sunday, Feb. 19, 10 a.m. Boulder High School Auditorium (Editor’s note: Here’sa lovely guest piece on the engrossing documentary “Nicky’s Family,” penned byKathryn Bernheimer. Kathryn isdirector of Menorah: Arts, Culture and Education at the Boulder Jewish Community Center, as well as the JCC Program Director. From 1980-1996, Kathryn was the film criticand features […]
By Kristen Daly BIFF DigiComm Commando Granito: How to Nail A Dictator Friday, Feb. 17, 10 a.m. Boulder Theater Granito plays a bit like a procedural in, as their slogan says, how to nail a dictator. The movie starts with present-day Pamela Yates combing through film footage from her 25-year-old documentary When the Mountains Tremble, […]
No Room for Rock StarsSaturday, Feb. 18, 10 p.m.Boulder Theater This is a great film, but we had to put it on late as it’s not family-friendly, safe-for-work, homogenized, or pasteurized. If you have ever stood in a 200-degree parking lot watching your favorite band — or went on tour and broke up, and no […]
Donor UnknownSaturday, Feb. 18, 7:15 p.m.Boulder High School Auditorium Not to be indelicate, but you really need to keep a handle on where your sperm winds up. That’s NOT the thrust of “Donor Unknown,” the feature documentary that follows the search of several half-siblings (including Fletcher from Boulder) for their sprem-donor father. In fact, this […]
Bitter SeedsFriday, 12:30 p.m.Boulder Theater BIFF in the news: once again, as with “Pink Ribbons, Inc.” and “The Island President,” yet another topic that has been covered in a BIFF 2012 film has hit the front pages. Check out these HuffPo links regarding Monsanto — in one case, the biotech giant has been found guilty […]
Are your middle- and high-schoolers planning to spend thePresidents’ Day weekend hanging around the house, complaining that there’snothing to do? Well, send them down to us – we have FREE films and eventsSaturday and Sunday for students ages 13 to 18! Educational outreach is a big part of our master plan hereat BIFF. We believe […]
By Kristen DalyBIFF Digital Communications Wild Horse, Wild Ride — TWO SHOWS! Saturday, Feb. 18, 2:30 p.m.Boulder High School Auditorium Sunday, Feb. 19, 5:15 p.m.Boulder High School Auditorium (Editor’s note: Not only do we have this preview write-up to share with you, but we are proud to share to following mini-documentary, made expressly for BIFF […]
We are so happy to announce that acting legend PAM GRIER will be attending the Boulder International Film Festival this year, courtesy of the fine folks at the International Film Series! This special event is FREE FOR ALL CU STUDENTS! This pioneering performer, sometimes referred to as American film’s first female action hero, starred in […]
Mohamed Fellag in the title role of Philippe Falardeau’s Oscar-nominated “Monsieur Lazhar,” part of BIFF 2012. A tribute to the good taste of our BIFF programmers is the fact that so many of our past selections have wound up as Oscar nominees. This year is no different, and you can see no less than FIVE […]
Who dat? Festival director Robin Beeck at BIFF 2008. [Photo by Randy Malone] Year Four comes back to us in bits and pieces. There was no overriding event or personality that year. Instead, BIFF 2008 was like a firework exploding in the night – a thousand flashes of color that lit up the landscape. Here […]
Here’s another fun BIFF preview event! Check out “Racing Dreams” at the Old Town Cinema in Louisville Saturday! This award-winning documentary (Jury Prize, Best Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival) will be presented on Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Louisville Center for the Arts at 801 Grant St., in the beautiful period auditorium next to Memory Square. […]
Synergy. In another amazing example of different organizations working together, BIFF is happy to announce that the Boedecker Theater at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2950 Walnut St. in Boulder, is showing the latest directorial effort of Emilio Estevez, “The Way.” This film stars the director and his father, the latter of whom you […]
ARE YOU INCENSED over the decision announced Tuesday by the organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, the group that co-opted and capitalized the iconic “pink ribbon” to support awareness and preventative treatment for breast cancer, to halt its funding of those efforts by Planned Parenthood? Here’s a link to the story — many […]
We honor Martin Sheen live in person on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 18 at the Boulder Theater. The 8th Annual Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF), voted “one of the coolest film festivals in the world” by MovieMaker magazine, is already making headlines with a star-studded lineup of celebrity guests and today is rolling out its captivating […]
Here’s a little tidbit for you, BIFF fans — the Boulder International Film Festival is proud to announce that it will host the Colorado premiere of Luc Besson’s new feature film, “The Lady”! This biopic of Burmese political leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi stars Michelle Yeoh (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) […]
Robin Beeck hanging out with the Polish brothers at BIFF 2007. [Photo by Randy Malone] Our outer-space(y) subjects set the tone for Year Three — it was crazy. There were slam poets, air guitar masters, would-be astronauts, and more! We also enjoyed a visit from Boulder-born screenwriter John August (“Go,” “Big Fish,” “Charlie and the […]
The Boulder International Film Festival is pleased to announce its first featured film and special guests for 2012! The film is the documentary “Adventures in Plymptoons!,” and we will welcome its director, Alexia Anastasio, and its subject – one of America’s greatest living animators, Bill Plympton. Bill Plympton’s instantly recognizable style, absurd wit and storytelling […]
Henry Phillips stands, and strums, at the center of “Punching the Clown.” So this comedian has a girlfriend. She’s beautiful, she’s funny, she’s smart, she has a great job. She’s a wonderful cook, she makes love like nobody’s business. One morning she wakes up, and finds the comedian packing his suitcase. He throws his keys […]
Tim Roth joins several other film luminaries in praising the work of the National Film Registry in “These Amazing Shadows.” 85 percent of all movies from the silent era are lost forever. Half of all sound films made before 1950 have vanished. The most amazing thing about the films we treasure so much are that […]
Of course there’s a catch! You have to be a student older than 12, and younger than 19. That’s it! Here at BIFF, we want to encourage young people not only to get into movies — but movies with VITAMINS. Yeah, movies that engage you and make you think . . . without being the […]
A Danish soldier stares in shock after being shot in the documentary “Armadillo.” When the killing commences, you’re as taken aback as the men in the middle of it. The cameraman dives to the ground – we see nothing but flashes of sky, the ground, sky again. Then he orients himself, gets vertical again, and […]
Mike Carroll (right) and friend. If you don’t cry at some point during this film, check your pulse. You may be dead. “Hand Held” is the new documentary directed by two-time Boulder International Film Festival guest Don Hahn, the Oscar-winning producer of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” who brought us the wonderful documentary “Waking Sleeping […]
Christine Rice as Carmen, Bryan Hymel as Don José and Maija Kovalevska as Micaëla in “Carmen’ in 3D,” newly added to the schedule at the Boulder International Film Festival. Photo credit: RealD and The Royal Opera/Ollie Upton Top tunes, sex and death! In depth! Now that we have your attention . . . The Boulder […]
For the first time ever, the Boulder International Film Festival is expanding its reach! Come join us for a very special preview event in nearby Louisville on Sunday, Jan. 30. That night, Louisville welcomes BIFF 2011 with a special screening of last year’s hit documentary feature, “Rock Prophecies.” It’s the story of Robert M. Knight, […]
BY ALAN O’HASHIEDITORDaily One Sheet The Boulder International Film Festival 2010 Asian Film Program consists of five movies. This year they will screen at the United Methodist Church at 14th and Spruce Street and the Boulder Theater 2032 14th Street. Click on the title to download a .pdf of a one-sheet about each film. Here’s […]