Animation by Steve Kerr (Orchard Park, NY)Sound Mix by Eastco: California Roads Studios (Orchard Park, NY)Post Production by Postworks (NYC)Produced by Edward SummerThe Buffalo International Film Festival: Movies of the World Official Website: www.BuffaloFilmFestival.com...

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Jim Steranko has joined the Arts & Science Advisors for BIFF.As a musician, art director, magician, photographer, fire-eater, designer, escape artist, filmmaker, pop-culture lecturer, and publisher, Jim Steranko has cut a ferocious path through the entertainment arts. The more than 100 innovations he created as artist-writer on Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D., CAPTAIN AMERICA, and X-MEN revolutionized the comics form and, as an illustrator, he painted a multitude of book covers, record jackets, movie ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Buffalo International Film Festival Brings Movies of the World to WNYBUFFALO, N.Y. – January 9, 2007 — The Buffalo International Film Festival, Inc., was founded as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation on January 21, 2005. The organization is planning a major international film festival in and for the benefit of the diverse Western New York community including the counties of Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and other interes...

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Buffalo International Film Festival Represented at Sundance 2007BUFFALO, N.Y. – January 23, 2007 — Danielle DiGiacomo, documentary committee chairperson for the Buffalo International Film Festival (BIFF), is currently on hand at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, to talk with interested parties about the impending inaugural festival and its competitions to be held in Buffalo, New York.DiGiacomo is heading up BIFF’s documentary competition titled "Cities Rising From the Ash...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Nobel Prize Winner Herbert Hauptman Joins Buffalo InternationalFilm Festival Science Film Competition Advisory BoardBUFFALO, N.Y. – January 30, 2007 — The Buffalo International Film Festival (BIFF) announces the newest member of the board of advisors for How Science Works: The Film & Video Competition: Herbert A. Hauptman, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in 1985 for Chemistry.A Buffalo resident, Hauptman is President of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute,...

October 13, 2007First Motion PIcture Tour of Buffalo, New York Big Success!BUFFALO, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES The first ever tour of Buffalo, New York's fabulous motion picture-related history was sponsored by the Buffalo International Film Festival on Saturday, September 29, 2007. Twenty members of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) from all over the U.S. and the UK were guided to numerous historic sites in the city, such as the site of Edisonia Hall and the Vitascope Theatre (t...

October 16, 2007BUFFALO, NEW YORK, USA. October 19, 2007 is the 111th anniversary of the opening of the first permanent, purpose-built movie theater in the world: the Vitascope Hall which opened on Monday, October 19, 1896 in the Ellicott Square Building on Main Street. It was the brainchild of Mitchell H. Mark, the supreme visionary of the future of motion picture theaters. Mark, a Buffalo-based entrepreneur, together with his brother Moe, would open numerous theaters in Buffalo, New York City...

Buffalo Common Council Resolution Adopted October 16, 2007Mr. Franczyk, Mr. GolombekRecognizing UNESCO's First World Audiovisual Heritage DayWhereas: Buffalo, New York is unique in the world in the history of Motion Picture Theaters, for the number of theaters that survive from 1896, 1908, 1910, 1919 and other years; andWhereas: Mitchell Mark (1868-1918) of Buffalo was the visionary who founded the Vitascope Theater on October 19, 1896 at the EIlicott Square Building, the Vitascope Theater being...

PROCLAMATIONRecognizing UNESCO's First World Audiovisual Heritage DayWhereas: Buffalo, New York is unique in the world in the history of Motion Picture Theaters for the number of theaters that survive from 1896, 1908, 1910, 1919 and many other years; andWhereas: Mitchell Mark (1868-1918) of Buffalo was the visionary who founded the Vitascope Theater on October 19, 1896 at the Ellicott Square Building, the Vitascope Theater being probably the first true motion picture theater in the world; andWhe...

The nation’s first motion picture theater may have been in Ellicott SquareThe first public movie theater? Yeah, it was probably in BuffaloBy Mark Sommer NEWS STAFF REPORTER Updated: 11/25/07 8:47 AMBuffalo lays claim to the air conditioner, grain elevator, windshield wiper and pacemaker. It may be time to add another: The first motion picture theater.Mitchell Mark and his younger brother, Moe, opened Vitascope Hall in the basement of Ellicott Square in October 1896. Moviegoers entered through ...

Buffalo International Film Festival, Inc. is a recipient of a Google Grant award.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 29, 2008.Buffalo, New York, United States Buffalo International Film Festival, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is a recipient of a Google Grant award. The Google Grants program supports organizations sharing Google's philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the a...

Happy Birthday, Mickey!The Buffalo International Film Festival presents: MICKEY MOUSE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, A Celebration of Walt Disney at Shea's Buffalo, December 13, 2008Presented in Collaboration by Buffalo International Film Festival and Shea's through the courtesy of The Walt Disney CompanyFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, NOVEMBER 17, 2008www.BuffaloFilmFestival.comBuffalo, NY –The Buffalo International Film Festival and Shea's Performing Arts Center are proud to present MICKEY MOUSE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 31, 2008Buffalo International Film Festival Launches Google Campaign to Promote Western NY Media JobsBuffalo, New York The Buffalo International Film Festival has launched an international, internet advertising campaign using its Google Grant to promote the media talent pool in Buffalo and Western New York.In the last 7 days alone, more than 67,000 advertisements for the Western New York and Buffalo Film and Video Industry were displayed worldwide. That breaks down t...

The Mickey Mouse Movie Masterpiece Celebration has been postponed until April 2008.The Buffalo International Film Festival: Movies of the World Official Website: www.BuffaloFilmFestival.com...

We need a logo, at least for the time being. So we're playing with a few designs.What do you think of this one?What do you suggest? Or would you like to donate a design of your own?By the way, if you want to set up a link to the festival website at www.BufffaloFilmFestival.com, you're welcome to use this logo.The Buffalo International Film Festival: Movies of the World Official Website: www.BuffaloFilmFestival.com...