Fast Facts

• BIFF Kids 2009 will be our sixth annual festival.

• BIFF Kids 2008 featured 35 films from 16 countries, including seven films made by Bermuda-based youngsters in our Summer Film Production Camps.

• We offer prizes in two age categories.

• The festival made its debut in 2004 at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute theatre (148 seats) before moving to the Liberty Theatre (270 seats) in 2005. We moved back to the BUEI and Little Theatre in 2008.

• Our School Screening Series this year saw more than 750 students from Bermuda’s nursery, primary, middle and secondary schools attend a film during the festival.

• Our eight weeks of Summer Film Production Camps this year saw more than 100 students learn the principles of filmmaking.

• We have a full-time director, a three-days-a week deputy director – and many, many hardworking volunteers who play a huge role in the success of our festival.

• Our festival receives funding from BIFF Kids Presenting Partner, Butterfield Bank, in-kind gifts and via fundraising events and ticket and merchandise sales.