This year, BIFF CARES, sponsored by the Beloit Health System, will present films that will examine current issues relating to families in this community that look at ADHD diagnoses in children and the concerns surrounding the lives and the care of our veterans.
Since BIFF’s inception, KIDS@BIFF has brought thousands of elementary school-aged children to share their ideas about films and to learn how to look at media critically.
BIFF will be revealed in print at 5 p.m. on Feb.7. at the Beloit Hampton Inn at 2700 Cranston Rd. Each evening all BIFF long, the Janesville law firm of Nowlan & Mouat LLP Presents Beloit After Dark—the BAD celebration of musical talent.
This year, BIFF is again joining forces with The Beloit Memorial High School Jazz Orchestra at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, for the screening of the historic comedy blockbuster The Cameraman, featuring Buster Keaton.
Following on a survey taken in the fall, the film the community would most like to see again on the big screen is the 1973 Oscar winner, The Sting. Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, it is the story of two grifters who team up to pull off the ultimate con.
One of the most popular elements of BIFF in recent years has been a throwback to the past in content and technology. This year BIFF welcomes the Janesville Radio Players for a performance of the radio drama, All About Eve.
BIFF will be revealed in print at 5 p.m. on Feb.7. at the Beloit Hampton Inn at 2700 Cranston Rd.
The Beloit International Film Festival will present 35 films from Wisconsin and Illinois as part of the annual WI/IL Showdown at BIFF2018.
Film trailers are the perfect vehicle for their intended purpose, introducing the film in as compelling means possible and to encourage attendance.
We invite our filmmakers to provide Filmmaker Introductions. These are certainly intended to help encourage attendance as well however, we’re also trying to foster greater person-to-person connection between our guest filmmakers and our BIFF audiences.
We really appreciate getting to know the BIFF filmmakers. And we enjoy a little more insight into the the why of the film and the filmmaker’s intent and connection with their project. We find the Filmmaker Introductions particularly compelling and personable. We offer these to you in the hopes you might as well.
The front line in creating that great impression rests with the volunteers who make BIFF happen. BIFF2018 volunteer chairs Nancy and Jim Heidt, note that volunteers interact with guests at every level.
Planning for the 13th Beloit International Film Festival is into its final phase. Beloit once again is preparing to welcome filmmakers from around the world and audiences from throughout the region and beyond. Eight screening venues will feature more than 100 films, Feb.23 to March 4.
We invited the graphics arts student at Beloit Memorial High School to try their hand at coming up with a poster for the upcoming 2018 Film Festival. Well, look at what they’ve produced for us! Nicely done!
The Real Deal offers a chance to get dressed up and show off your moves on the dance floor, your cunning at craps or your readiness at roulette—all in support of two great Beloit institutions
With the underwriting support of the Janesville law firm of Nowlan & Mouat LLP, BIFF will bring back the popular BIFF AFTER DARK for BIFF2017. The nightly entertainment schedule will assure that the festivities keep going late into the night.
Filmmakers and the local community are invited to come together and create get-well cards for sick children, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Beloit Public Library
Suds O’Hanahans, 435 E. Grand Ave.
While the BIFF website at BeloitFilmFest.org has now been online for a couple of weeks, for many it is the big party where the printed program is revealed for the first time that gets people thinking about their film viewing choices.
That printed schedule, which includes background on all the films and special events, will be released to the public at 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 8 at Suds O Hanahan’s at 435 East Grand Ave in Beloit. Sponsored by Blackhawk Bank, the party will include a chance to hear from those who have been screening and programming the 100 films in this year’s BIFF. Trailers for many of the films will also be shown.
A highpoint of this year’s gathering will be the presentation of the People’s Choice Award to one of the 20 films shown this season at the Wednesday evening BIFF Year ‘Round series at the Hendricks Center at Beloit College.
“Last year, because of delays in completing the printed program, we had to skip the Reveal Party”, “We heard from many in the community that they really missed it and the chance to familiarize themselves about films as they started to put together their viewing choices. So we have brought it back.”
The BIFF2017 program is designed by Mary Terry and is printed by the Beloit Daily News. It will be available at businesses throughout Rock County starting Feb. 10th and will be distributed in the weekend edition of the Daily News on Feb. 11.
The Beloit International Film Festival, celebrating its 12th year, is sponsored by the Hendricks Group in association with Beloit College and with additional support provided by Visit Beloit. Support for the Festival comes from area businesses and civic organizations, and individual support for BIFF is provided through membership in the BIFF Founders and the Film Society of Beloit.
Veteran Hollywood filmmaker, Jon Pavlovsky, brings award-winning film and passionate spirit to Beloit as BIFF 2017 Honorary Chair
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It is the best rock & roll comedy adventure, and probably the greatest historic sing along film of all time. And now, the Beloit International Film Festival invites you to dig out the Beatles wigs and relive the era.
This year’s BIFF Sing-A-Long film will be the classic Beatles 1964 hit A Hard Day’s Night, featuring more than a dozen early songs by the boys from Liverpool. Directed by Richard Lester, it captures the Beatles at their beginning, and London before it really learned to swing. The Beatles drew massive enthusiastic crowds, but they had not yet set the heavens ablaze.
The Sing-A-Long event is sponsored by the law firm of Brennan Steil, S.C of Janesville, WI.
The film will be presented on Saturday February 25th, 7 p.m. at Schubert’s Luxury 10 Cinema on Cranston Rd. in Beloit. Prior to the screening there will be costume and singing competitions with prizes awarded. Popcorn and soda will be provided, compliments of Luxury 10.
And don’t worry if you have forgotten some of the words to All My Loving and I Wanna Be Your Man. The words will be shown at the bottom of the movie screen. Girls will be encouraged to scream at random.
A Hard Day’s Night, is a frenetic cinéma vérité romp with the Beatles as they travel from Liverpool to London. Director Richard Lester is one of the most influential directors of the 1960s, and continued his career into the early ’80s with such films as The Knack…and How to Get It and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. His style in A Hard Day’s Night and Help!was seen by many as inspiring the music video.
The Beloit International Film Festival, celebrating its 12th year, is sponsored by the Hendricks Group in association with Beloit College and with additional support provided by Visit Beloit. Support for the Festival comes from area businesses and civic organizations, and individual support for BIFF is provided through membership in the BIFF Founders and the Film Society of Beloit.
Now that the holidays are in the rear view mirror, it is time to start thinking about the BIFF fun that awaits us in 2017.
The 12th Beloit International Film Festival is set to bring the world to Beloit and Beloit to the world, February 24 to March 5. All the hundreds of final details, from scheduling to travel arrangements, are falling into place. This year’s dates are a week later than last year, but the intense preparation for the ten-day event is already in high gear.
The Beloit International Film Festival and The Beloit Public Library proudly present.
The newest, established, permanent, floating gambling night in Beloit.…where the wheel of fortune goes round and round and where she stops will support two great cultural programs in Beloit.
The Beloit International Film Festival and The Beloit Public Library proudly present.
The newest, established, permanent, floating gambling night in Beloit.…where the wheel of fortune goes round and round and where she stops will support two great cultural programs in Beloit.
BIFF is taking over downtown for 10 days of films, festivities and fun. Check out the many activities we have before and after films this year. There’s something for everyone so be sure to join us for the best entertainment Beloit has to offer.
Hemal Trivedi, director, producer and editor of the award-winning feature length film, Among the Believers, is Honorary Chair for BIFF 2016. She will discuss her film and will help to welcome the international array of guests and filmmakers to this year’s BIFF.
