An international scale film festival is held in Bali starting from October 20 until October 25, 2009. The Balinale International Film festival (BIFF) for the first time was held in Bali on the year of 2007.
According to Kelly Marciano, Creative Director of BIFF, this event was established in 2007 by Bali Film center to provide an opportunity for international filmmakers to screen films to an Indonesian market while at the same time exposing the country’s unique culture, rich story ideas, and diverse locations to the International film making community. The vent provides Indonesian film profesionals an International forum where they can present their work while networking with visiting filmmakers.
Marciano said this year’s festival will screen 25 international and Indonesian feature films, documenters, shorts, and children’s films. There are also Audience Choice Awards that will be presented for best overall film, beast feature film, best documentary, and best short film. She explained filmmakers already long inspired by Bali. Filmmakers started coming to this island in the 1930’s producing a classic as “Goona Goona” and “Legong Dance of the Virgins”. “In BIFF 2008, we presented the world premiere of “Chaplin in Bali”, rare film footage of Charlie Chaplin visiting Bali in 1932,” she stated.
On the opening night there are two films that will be presented; “Coffee and Allah” a 14 minutes long movie and “Mary and Max” an 80 minutes movies that based on a true story. The “Mary and Max” is the opening film at Sundance Festival 2009. The star of this claymation feature film include Eric Bana, Toni Collete, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Barry Humphries.
On this 5 days event there will be five films from Indonesia being played, which are “Darah and Dupa”, “Pasangan Baru”, “Blood and Milk”, “Drupadi”, and “Meraih Mimpi”. Other international films that being showed, 5 films from USA, 4 films Singapore, 2 from Australia and France, 1 from Malaysia, New Zealand, Venezuela, Japan, Spain, Italy, and India.

News by International Bali Post

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