Bermuda Short Films

Good blogging weather today... gale force winds, with the odd hurricane force gust thrown in, and freezing here in paradise. It's made for some pretty dramatic scenes. Although as I've been mainly hiding away inside all day, I can't claim to have seen this first hand but Bernews.com keeps me reliably informed with some photos and short film action. And with that seamless link I move onto the subject of today's post. Films.

I recently started volunteering for the mighty Bermuda International Film Festival in a PR capacity. The festival takes place in March (18-24 for those of you taking notes!) and shows a range of indie films from all over the world. It even counts as a qualifying festival for the Short Film Oscar, so if your film is screened at BIFF, it can be shortlisted for film industry's undoubtedly greatest gong. Pretty cool huh! And the category is fitting too... Bermuda... Short... Films. Geddit!!! I've taken BIFF onto Twitter (@BERMUDAFILMFEST) and we are slowly but surely making connections with other films festivals all over the world. Now I'm fairly new to this whole gig but hadn't quite realised how many film fests there are across the globe. Sure we've all heard on Sundance, Cannes, Raindance but have the Land Locked Film Festival in Iowa, Anchorage Film Festival in Alaska, WOW (Wales One World) Film Festival or even the Killruddery Film Festival in Wicklow, Ireland, ever crossed you're radar?! Probably not. But yep they're out there!

As well as playing host to the globe's rising stars of the silver screen, Bermuda is also part of the programme this year as local living legend, Johnny Barnes, who each morning greets thousands at the side of a roundabout, is the star of "Mr Happy Man." View the trailer here.

And away from the film festival, there is homegrown talent aplenty within these 21 square miles. We've got the directors, cameramen, film stars, musical directors etc etc. just waiting for their big break. So thought I'd help with a bit of promotion as I am just that selfless. 

So firstly we have all involved in this masterpiece of an ad from BELCO, the local energy company. Just wow! 

And if that wasn't enough X-Factor viewing for you all for one day, feast your eyes of this festival of film magic from the Bermuda Post Office. Yikes!




So if you're looking for the perfect excuse to hop on a plane to Bermuda then the film festival should be it!!