Bishop's University Film Festival - BUFF

07/09/2024

JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: DEADLINES FOR APPLICATIONS APPROACHING

1) TOMLINSON INTERN FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS
The Department of English at Bishop’s organizes many cultural initiatives throughout the academic year, including the Morris House Reading Series (MHRS), the Bishop’s University Film Festival (BUFF), the Mitre literary journal, and the Ogden Glass Lecture, all of which require careful organization and promotion in order to be successful.

The English Department invites applications for one Tomlinson Intern, who will support the department chair in organizing and publicizing these and other events, coordinate with other department faculty and the BUFF Directors, and recruit and manage student volunteers.

Full details at https://jobboard.ubishops.ca/.../tomlinson-intern-for.../

2) BUFF STUDENT DIRECTORS, SENIOR AND JUNIOR
The Bishop’s University Film Festival (BUFF) invites applications for TWO BUFF Student Directors. BUFF was launched in 2015 as a one-night showcase for student filmmaking at Bishop’s. Since then, it has grown into the animating centre of filmmaking at Bishop’s, a complex ongoing festival that culminates in a red-carpet gala event near the end of the academic year. As such, it requires year-round preparation, organization, and promotion.

Full details at https://jobboard.ubishops.ca/.../buff-student-directors.../

06/09/2024

If you'd like to get some experience on a film set, we are looking for extras and P.A's for the short film, Reflection(Hers), which is shooting on Sep 21-23. This is an independent short, unpaid, but you'll be fed and credited in the film, and you'll gain valuable experience being on set. P.A's will support key crew and should be prepared for full days. Extras will only be called for a few hours during the weekend.

If you are interested, please send a note to the writer/director/producer Benj Tabah at [email protected].

19/08/2024

Do you have excellent perspective and are you fast on your feet? Then you might consider being one of this year's BUFF Student Directors. Full details about the position and application procedure can be found here.
https://jobboard.ubishops.ca/job/buff-student-directors-senior-and-junior/

16/04/2024

BUFF has never looked so good, and neither have ALL OF YOU! Find your photos in this treasure trove of pics from this year's TENTH ANNIVERSARY BUFF GALA and share with all of your friends and family. Thanks to photographers Jacob Guité and Juliette Welch for all their work.

23/03/2024

Yes, BUFF is about celebrating the amazing films that BU students have produced in the last year, but it's also about TALK about film. Don't miss this exciting opportunity to meet and chat with some award-winning BUFF filmmakers of the past who now have creative careers underway and with a musician and sound designer for film who's worked for National Geographic and Aardman Studios, amongst others.

19/03/2024

ATTENTION! BUFF needs photographers for our TENTH ANNIVERSARY GALA, on the evening of Friday, April 5th. If you have some ability with a camera and are willing to help out -- even if you don't have a good camera of your own -- please contact BUFF Faculty Director Steven Woodward.

27/02/2024

15/11/2023

🎉 BUFF is back for its 10th edition! 🎉

Registration is now open. Sign up with the QR code or at the link below!

https://forms.office.com/r/VYB2jdbDaR

10/10/2023

We're looking for the Director of the Tenth Annual Bishop's University Film Festival (BUFF).

The Bishop's University Film Festival (BUFF) was launched in 2015 as a one-night showcase for student filmmaking at Bishop's. Since then, it has grown into the animating centre of filmmaking at Bishop's, a complex production that, although still culminating in a red-carpet gala event near the end of the academic year, requires year-round preparation, organization, and promotion.

The duties of the BUFF Student Director include the following:

Working with BUFF's Faculty Director, Steven Woodward, throughout the academic year to maintain and further develop the vibrancy of the festival
Recruiting a team of student volunteers to help with graphic design (banners, posters, programs), communications, gala organization (technical, hospitality, house management), gala MCing, and multimedia production (trailers, promos, gala program, pre-recorded gala components, post-gala distribution)
Launching the festival in the Fall and maintaining a social-media presence throughout the year
Organizing any ancillary events that occur between September and April, like our annual student trip to the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal (October), the guest lectures of professional filmmakers, and filmmaking workshops for students
Designing, "writing" and producing the BUFF gala as a scripted event in itself
Liaising with other arts events, like Arts Week, the Graduate Fine Arts Show, and the Festival Cinéma du Monde de Sherbrooke
Publicizing the gala after the event via our social media channels

This is a volunteer position, without pay, but some students may be eligible to count it as experiential learning or as a credited internship, depending on their degree program.

Application Procedure and Deadline:
Please send your CV and a covering letter (as a single pdf file) to Steven Woodward, [email protected], no later than 4:30pm on Friday, 27 October 2023.

08/10/2023

Want to be a part of the FIRST EVER 48-HOUR FILM FESTIVAL at Bishop's? Click this link to register https://forms.office.com/r/UkV8WE1rJH

28/09/2023

Applications are now open for Actuality Abroad's 2024 Documentary Outreach programs.

The Documentary Outreach is a month-long travel course for impact-driven storytellers. Join our crew and learn documentary production, ethical storytelling and responsible travel while producing a short film about global changemakers. Students can choose to earn internship or independent study credit through participation in the trip.

In 2024 we are traveling to Vietnam for our winter session and to Morocco for our summer session. Apply now to join the crew.

24/04/2023

APPEL À FILMS ! 🎥

Pour sa quatrième édition, le Festival du film de Knowlton ajoute une compétition de courts métrages québécois et un prix du public pour le meilleur long métrage canadien.

C’est donc le moment de soumettre vos films. Les productions provenant de l'Estrie et de la Montérégie sont plus que les bienvenues!

L'appel à films se termine le 21 juin 2023. 🕰
👉 Inscription et informations : https://filmfreeway.com/FestivaldufilmdeKnowlton

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CALL FOR ENTRIES!🎥

For its fourth edition, the Knowlton Film Festival is adding a Quebec short film competition and an Audience Award for the best Canadian feature film.

It's time to submit your films. Productions from the Eastern Townships and Montérégie are more than welcome!

The call for films ends on June 21, 2023. 🕰
👉 Registration and information: https://filmfreeway.com/FestivaldufilmdeKnowlton

03/04/2023

BUFF 2023 was a fabulous time for all, with a great slate of ten wonderful films, an amazingly responsive audience, yummy snacks at intermission, and a suspenseful awards show at which these were the winners:

BEST ACTOR
Jake Bureau in LA VILLE (Kaolin Dhouailly)

BEST NON-NARRATIVE FILM
I WOULD LIKE MY BODY, by Caroline Homet

BEST TECHNIQUE
LA VILLE, by Kaolin Dhouailly

BEST NARRATIVE FILM
DROPOUT MARKS, by Joshua Zawidzki

BEST RESEARCH FILM
ASPIROPHYLLE, by Donovan Faraoni

AUDIENCE CHOICE
A PASSAGE, by A P Bergeron
Nominees: DROPOUT MARKS (Joshua Zawidzki), LA VILLE (Kaolin Dhouailly), THE GIUSEPPE AFFAIR (Tomas Peck)

You can see the full lineup of this year's films (and every year's, from 2015 onwards) on our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com//featured

Don't forget that BUFF 2024 will be our TENTH ANNIVERSARY! We want even more films and we're aiming to give out bigger prizes than ever (along with more food, of course), so start writing your scripts now!

01/04/2023

Some pictures from yesterday's event!

Photographer: Felipe Alejandro Iannacone Aliaga

31/03/2023

Come join us at tonight’s Gala!

29/03/2023

This is a quick interview with filmmakers that have all submitted a film for the BUFF this year. They talk about their inspirations, why they submitted a film, what makes a great film and more! If you want to see these movies and others, you can purchase a BUFF ticket at the Arts Fest table on Wednesday and Friday from 12 to 3 p.m. or at the Centennial Theater entrance starting at 7 p.m.

29/03/2023

Buy your tickets now at the Arts fest table in the SUB! Open on Wednesday and Friday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets will also be available at the door of the Centennial on Friday starting at 7 p.m.

29/03/2023

Here's a fascinating documentary film about the challenges of making a film, especially one that you never planned to make.

WINTOPIA

A box of tapes uncovered. A lifelong Utopian obsession. A daughter’s attempt to complete her father’s final film. Wintopia traces the enigmatic footsteps of renowned documentary filmmaker Peter Wintonick through the lens of his daughter, Mira, as she tries to decipher the map he has left behind. Reverberating with emotion and whimsy, the film guides us on a journey through possible worlds in pursuit of reconciliation, both between artist and family and between dreams and reality. Even for audiences unfamiliar with Peter’s work, the film is a touching
story of grief, love and hope.

WINTOPIA

Watch now for free on nfb.ca.

https://www.epkurl.com/email/wintopia/watchnow.html

27/03/2023

Yes, BUFF IS FABULOUS! But so are the BU University Singers, coming to Centennial Theatre the night before BUFF. Don't miss them!

27/03/2023

Here's an event that those of you interested in working in film or TV might like to consider.

22/03/2023

This is the last post from our rewind series! But don't be too disappointed, next week we will be posting an interview with a few filmmakers from this edition of BUFF. This week, we are looking back at the submissions from last year!

Get ready to watch this year's submissions next Friday at the Centennial from 7:00 pm to 10:00pm.

All of the previous years' entries are available in their entirety on our Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/

21/03/2023

15/03/2023

This is the second post from our rewind series! This week, we are looking back at the submissions from the year 2021!

All of the previous years' entries are available in their entirety on our Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/