Eligible: Short Films, First Features, Documentaries, Music Videos
The Birmingham Black International Film Festival (BIF FESTIVAL) is calling for film
submissions for this year’s festival due to take place in Birmingham, UK, 29 Oct – 2 Nov 2008.
BIF FESTIVAL are seeking films from all European countries
(including all former Eastern European countries) and worldwide to screen
throughout the festival and the festival associated visual platforms. All films
selected for the festival will also be entered into the BIF competition and
winners will be announced at the MVS Awards at the ICC, Birmingham 1st November
2008.
The BIFF – Black International Film Festival. Its a film festival with
a difference incorporating music, live arts and education providing platforms
for practitioners and artists to express themselves. The festival facilitates
the culturally diverse emerging identities in the community through new and
challenging ways. The BIF festival comprises five core events, apart from
networking, seminars & socialising events, which connect all the five main
events: Film Screening, Music Events, Performance Event, Educa tional Workshop
MVS Awards Submissions are not exclusive to people of colour but must either
feature people of colour, address Black issues, be produced by people of colour
or have significant involvement in the film production by people of colour.
For further details of film criteria please download submissions form
BIF_Festival_submissions_Form (.doc 656 KB)
or vist our website for more details (www.biffestival.co.uk)