peter flynn
festival director
dawn morrissey
festival producer
harvey o'brien
associate director
The 2008 Call for Entries Now Online!
BIFF Productions in partnership with Magners Irish Film Festival are proud to annouce a Call for Entries for the 2008 BIFF Awards. We are seeking submissions for three award categories: BEST FEATURE; BEST DOCUMENTARY; BEST SHORT FICTION/ANIMATION.
The due date for entries is August 15.
Entries may be submitted online via Withoutabox.
Award winners will recieve a beautifully designed glass trophy (courtesy of Duiske Irish Handcut Glass) as well as flight and accomodaton to attend a screening of their film at the 10th Annual Magners Irish Film Festival in Boston, Nov. 13-16.
Entries may be submitted online via Withoutabox. For full details click on the link below:
The BIFF Awards celebrate the very best of Ireland and the Irish on screen
The BIFF Awards were inaugurated in 2003 with the Fifth Annual Boston Irish Film Festival (BIFF 5). Winners were chosen from three categories: Best Feature; Best Documentary; and Best Short Fiction/Animation.
Each of the winners receive a beautifully designed glass trophy (courtesy of Duiske Irish Handcut Glass) as well as airline tickets and hotel accommodation for a two night stay in Boston during the festival.
The BIFF Awards are designed and produced by Duiske Irish Handcut Glass.
The 2007 BIFF Awards:
Director's Choice Award: On Broadway | Best Documentary: The Hunger Strike| Best Short: Deep Breaths | Excellence Award Honoree: Aidan Quinn.
The 2006 BIFF Awards:
Director's Choice Award: Small Engine Repair | Best Documentary: Home | Best Short: Badly Drawn Roy | Excellence Award Honoree: Brendan Gleeson.
The 2005 BIFF Awards:
Best Feature: Mickybo & Me | Best Documentary: Patrick Kavanagh: No Man's Fool | Best Short: Recoil | Director's Choice Award: Undressing My Mother | Excellence Award Honoree: Fionnula Flanagan
The 2004 BIFF Awards:
Best Feature: Timbuktu | Best Documentary: Cinegael Paradiso | Best Short: The Nightingale and the Rose | Director's Choice Award: Spin the Bottle | Special Jury Prize: News for the Church | Excellence Award Honoree: Gabriel Byrne
The 2003 BIFF Awards:
Best Feature: Boxed | Best Documentary: Darkroom | Best Short: From Darkness | Director's Choice Award: Photos to Send | Excellence Award Honoree: Jim Sheridan
Duiske Glassware is inspired by the work of the Cistercian monks of Duiske Abbey. In the Thirteenth century, they founded a tradition of elegant linear designs and floral motifs in calligraphy, metalwork and glass, a tradition that has survived unbroken to this day. Duiske has designed the festival awards since the awards were founded in 2003. We are delighted to have the continued support of Duiske for the 7th Annual Magners Irish Film Festival.
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