Entries by RicksterM

Owen Stevenson

Saturday Night, 10:00 pm  |  Suds O’Hanahans 435 East Grand Ave, Beloit, WI Owen Stevenson | Chicago IL Pop / Singer-Songwriter Website:  Owen Stevenson

North Country Blonde

Saturday Night, 12:00 Midnight  |  Suds O’Hanahans 435 East Grand Ave, Beloit, WI North Country Blond | Roscoe IL Americana/Folk Facebook:  North Country Blond

Food and a Flick

Foodies of Beloit, rejoice! Now you can devour the opportunity to merge your equal loves within one space: movie magic and mouth-watering morsels. For the first time ever, BIFF proudly introduces the “Food and a Flick” event – What better way to enjoy the opening of BIFF than to pair food with two feature films […]

Mark Wood named 2014 Honorary Chair

The 2014 Honorary Chair of the Beloit International Film Festival will bring a new dimension to the understanding of film with a silent message that few will forget. Mark Wood, director, producer, and owner of ASL Films will serve as this year’s Honorary Chair and will welcome audiences and speak at a number of venues […]

Student Filmmakers | Film Submissions

BIFF Invites Submissions from Student Filmmakers The Beloit International Film Festival is on a search for great filmmakers at the start of their careers. If you are a Martin Scorsese in the making, or if you know of one, BIFF wants to celebrate their work at the 2014 Student Filmmaker Showcase. This is a special […]

Volunteers: It Takes A Community…

To produce the Beloit International Film Festival It must be the new year because the 2014 Beloit International Film Festival has started its annual search for the largest volunteer force turnout in the region. BIFF runs on volunteers—300-400 to be exact. These BIFF Ambassadors are the face of BIFF and they are the people that […]

BIFF Volunteer Ambassadors – Mark Your Calendar

The 2014 Beloit International Film Festival is rapidly approaching and it’s bigger than ever! We hope you are again planning to join us as a volunteer! If you are considering becoming a new volunteer – WELCOME! Each year BIFF keeps getting better and 2014 will be no exception! Click to visit the BIFF Volunteer Information […]

60 Yrs. Symphony / Vets Roll

  Thu Feb 20, 2014 –  7:30 pm — Rotary River Center  Tickets Sun Feb 23, 2014 –  2:00 pm — Rotary River Center  Tickets Sixty Years of Symphony Category:  Community, Music Country:  U.S. Language:  English Rating:  G Runtime:  30 min. Director:  Beloit Janesville Symphony Producer:  Beloit Janesville Symphony   Website On Facebook On YouTube […]

Where Nature Seems to Smile

  Sat Feb 22, 2014 –  2:00 pm — Rotary River Center  Tickets Where Nature Seems to Smile: The Irish in Janesville Category:  Irish, Historical Country:  U.S. Language:  English Rating:  G Runtime:  48 min. Director:  Dave Haldiman Producer:  Dan Frediricks, Mike Reuter   Website On Facebook On Twitter   Synopsis: Irish immigrants arrived at the […]

Mark Wood | Honorary Chair for BIFF 2014

Legendary Hollywood writer, director and producer David Zucker will serve as Honorary chair of the eighth Beloit International Film Festival when the curtain goes up, Feb. 14.

One of Hollywood’s most successful filmmakers his worldwide box office hits include Airplane!Ruthless PeoplePhone BoothA Walk In the Clouds, and the record-breaking Naked Gun and Zucker will attend BIFF screenings and events and will introduce several of his films on Saturday and Sunday.

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Billy Club

Sat Feb 15, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Domenico’s Sun Feb 16, 2014 –  7:30 pm — Bushel & Peck’s Sat Feb 22, 2014 –  7:30 pm — Café Fromage #1 Community Partners:  Art Club, Sigma Chi, Suds O’Hanahans   Billy Club Strike Three: You’re DEAD Category:  Comedy, Horror Country:  U.S. Language:  English Rating:  R Runtime:  90 […]

FNBT Classic Film

First National Bank and Trust Presents… Braveheart Sunday:  Feb. 23rd, 2:00 pm –  Eclipse Center Category: Feature Country: USA Language: English Rating: R Runtime: 177 min. Director: Mel Gibson Producer: Icon Entertainment International FREE Closing Event The closing BIFF event of 2014 will be one of the most riveting pieces of American Cinema.  Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart” is a full-throated, red-blooded battle epic about […]

Around The World Shorts

Around the World in 85 Minutes BIFF Creative Director, Kristin Peterson, assembled this globe-trotting collection of shorts because she didn’t know what else to do with all the random left-over films on the list. Boom!! She nailed it like a dye-job travel agent in January. Join Kristin on this world-wide trek, which does not include […]

Experimental Short Slot

Somewhere Out There.  Waaaaaay Out There. Prepare to be freaked “the freak” out by this collection of unique and challenging films. Slip into the Twilight Zone. Soar to the Outer Limits. Take the Q train to where the hobos get vaporized down by the vacants…yeah…and some naked aliens, too!  Maybe?! If you’re the sort of […]

Animation Short Slot 2014

Disney, Schmizney! Animation has come a long way since Walt sketched that simple little rodent who starred in “Steamboat Willie” back in 1928. Big budget studios crank out amazing films faster than you can say Pixar-produced-a-pack-of-perky-pictures! But indie animators on shoestring budgets are doing outstanding work in a variety of genres.  They challenge big studio […]

Comedy Short Slot (2014)

Lovers, Liars & Clowns This trio of characters is drawn from the lyric of the hit Broadway musical number “A Comedy Tonight” and you will see all of them, and more, in this collection of hilarious takes on the human condition. Something familiar, peculiar, appealing, appalling, convulsive, repulsive…well, you get the idea. Something funny will […]

Youth @ BIFF

Film Workshop For Teens The Beloit International Film Festival is proud to announce our Third Annual Student Filmmaker Showcase as part of the 2014 BIFF schedule. Tomorrow’s Steven Spielberg is probably today’s Stateline area middle school or high school student, and the Beloit International Film Festival wants to help launch her or his career. Seven […]

Sign Painters

Fri Feb 14, 2014 –  7:30 pm — Café Fromage #2  Tickets Sat Feb 15, 2014 –  7:30 pm — Café Fromage #2  Tickets Thu Feb 20, 2014 –  7:30 pm — Domenico’s  Tickets Sun Feb 23, 2014 –  2:00 pm — Bagels & More  Tickets Community Partners:  Century 21 Real Estate, Grinnell Hall Sign Painters […]

Great Chicken Wing Hunt

Tue Feb 18, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Domenico’s  Tickets Sat Feb 22, 2014 –  5:00 pm — Bagels & More  Tickets Sun Feb 23, 2014 –  2:00 pm — Domenico’s  Tickets Community Partners:  Liberty Tax Service Great Chicken Wing Hunt A man on a quest for perfection. The woman who stood by him. The misfits […]

We Will Be Back

Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Domenico’s  Tickets Sun Feb 23, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts  Tickets We Will Be Back The Lake Delhi Story Category:  Independent / Documentary Country:  U.S. Language:  English Rating:  PG-13 Runtime:  73 min. Director:  Charles Cunliffe Producer:  Mary Cunliffe   Website On IMDb On Facebook […]

Tales From the Organ Trade

Fri Feb 21, 2014 –  2:00 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts  Tickets Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 12:00 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts  Tickets Sun Feb 23, 2014 –  12:00 pm — My Apartment  Tickets Community Partner:  Beloit College Tau Kappa Epsilon Tales From the Organ Trade Every sixty minutes a human […]

Man Behind the Throne / Der Untermensch

Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Bagels & More  Tickets Sat Feb 22, 2104 –   12:00 pm — Club Impulse  Tickets Sun Feb 23, 2014 –  2:00 pm — La Casa Grande  Tickets (Der Untermensch – short film preceding feature, see detail below) Community Partners:  Evolve Dance Company, Miss. Andrea’s Dance Company The Man Behind […]