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THE FLYBOYS
2008 BIFF Winner, Best Feature |
The President
and the Members of the International Jury
of the Barbados International Film Festival
are please to announce its 2008 winners.
They are as follows:
- Best Feature:
THE FLYBOYS
- Best Documentary:
THE WRECKING CREW
- Best Short Film:
GONE FISHING
- Best Feature Film Actor:
Dallen Gettling, THE FLYBOYS
- Best Feature Film Actress:
Jennifer Slimko, THE FLYBOYS
- Best Feature Director:
Rocco DeVilliers, THE FLYBOYS
- Best Short Film Actor:
Travis Young, THE REPLACEMENT CHILD
- Best Short Film Actress:
Zora Howard, PREMATURE
- INTERNATIONAL JURY PRIZE:
TRENCH TOWN
- SPECIAL MENTION to Jesse
James and Reiley
McClendon (the two boys) in THE FLYBOYS
- AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD:
MERMAID
The organising committee
of BIFF 2008 would like to thank all the
various film makers for their film submission
to the festival and wish them all the success
for 2009. |
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While She
was Out
Feature, USA, 2008
Directed by: Susan Montford. Cast: Kim Basinger,
Lukas Haas, Craig Sheffer
North American & Caribbean Premiere
A suburban
housewife is forced to fend for herself when
she becomes stranded in a desolate forest
with four murderous thugs. What starts off
as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods
with a fight for her life. All she has is
a toolbox and her will to survive.
- Screening: Wednesday December 03, 2008
- Time: 7.30
p.m SOLD OUT
Special screening
added at 9.00 p.m.
- Venue: George
Washington House
Sponsored
by Mount Gay & Diamonds International
Supported by The United States Embassy of
the Eastern Caribbean
The Flyboys
Feature,
118 minutes, USA, 2008
www.theflyboysmovie.com
Directed by: Rocco DeVilliers, Cast: Jesse
James, Reiley McClendon, Stephen Baldwin
Two boys
from a small town find their courage tested
when they accidentally stow away aboard an
airplane owned by the mob.
Awards: Winner,
Audience Award, Big Island Film Festival
- Screening: Friday December 05, 2008
- Time: 6.30
p.m
- Venue: George
Washington House
Mermaid
2007, 107
Minutes,
Director:
Anna
Melikyan
Cast:
Mariya
Shalayeva,
Yevgeni
Tsyganov,
Mariya Sokova, Anastasiya Dontsova, Veronika
Skugina, Natalya Rychkova, Irina Skrinichenko
Mermaid is a fanciful tale of an
introverted little girl named Alisa who grows
up believing she has the power to make wishes
come true. Her life is pretty ordinary. She
dreams about dancing in the ballet, singing
in a children's choir, and studying at a
school for the mentally challenged. At the
age of six she stops speaking. At 17 she
moves to Moscow and at 18 years old, she
meets Him. He who needed to be saved, and
she who was there to save him. Lending a
hand, our mermaid's life begins to change
and from this point on she learns about love,
life and materialism.
There is a unique dream-like visual approach
to Anna Melikyan's modern fairy tale. Mermaid
blends age-old myths and youthful imagination
into a surreal and beautiful urban romance
Awards: FIPRESCI Prize
Berlin International Film Festival 2008,
World Cinema Directing Award - Sundance Film
Festival 2008, Best Film - Sofia International
Film Festival 2008, Russia's entry for Oscar
2009. |
