Saturday 27th October 2012  10:30 AM

A mini-film festival offshoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Focused mainly on shorts, but also features. Special emphasis on films shot in The Bahamas, but films from around the world are also welcomed.


Saturday, October 27th

10:30am Filmmakers' Workshop with Ian Strachan
Pelican Bay Canal House

1:00pm The Black Miami (USA) 104 mins
Pelican Bay Canal House
(Special Guest: Co-Directors Carlton Smith & Michael Williams)

Take a journey through history and learn the importance and significance that blacks played in the creation and progress of America?s Magic City. The Black Miami revisits the past to understand how the race lines in South Florida were created and eventually transcended. The Black Miami takes you into a history that is rarely told but is not forgotten.

3:15pm How do you write a Joe Schermann Song (USA), 104 mins
Pelican Bay Canal House
(Special Guest: Writer/Director Gary King)

Joe dreams of hitting it big on Broadway. After landing an opportunity to write for an Off-Broadway musical, he is forced to cast either the love of his life Evey or his newly discovered muse Summer. The realities of show business prove to Joe that writing is easy, living is hard.

4:00pm On The Wings of Men (USA/Bahamas) 123 mins
Pelican Bay Canal House
(Guest: Calvin Dwight Harris)

Life and times of the late Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling; the first Prime Minister of the Bahamas born in Nassau in 1930.


5:00pm The Blame (Bahamas - Sunland Baptist) 8mins

5:05pm En Route (Bahamas - COB) 28 mins

5:10pm Teenage Pregnancy (Bahamas - Sunland Baptist) 7 mins

5:15pm Sex, Lies & Surgery (France), 90 mins
Pelican Bay Canal House
(Special Guest: Writer/Director/Star Artus de Penguern)

When ER and GREY'S ANATOMY turn into a DALLAS kind of comedy, with love and money-related plots, a HANGOVER atmosphere, and A FISH CALLED WANDA characters, the result is THE LOVE CLINIQUE: a crazy (but classy) comedy for all!


5:20pm Good News (Bah amas - COB) 30 mins

5:40pm I Love Life, But Life Has A Boyfriend (Bahamas - COB) 15 mins

6:00pm Last Week Tuesday: Proper Treatment On Depression (COB)
19 mins
6:05pm Who Are We? (Bahamas - COB) 27 mins

6:30pm Blended (Bahamas - Hampshire College) 9 mins

6:40pm 5 Bones (Bahamas) 5 mins

6:40pm The Price of Being a Man (Bahamas) 61 mins

6:50pm Thriving Encounter (Bahamas) 33 mins

7:00pm Supporting Characters (USA), 87 mins
(Guests: Dir/Co-Writer Daniel Schechter, Co-Writer/Star Tarik Lowe)

A comedy about two New York film editors (and best friends) who attempt to hold on to their significant others while reworking a film in crisis.

7:40pm Tony The Shotta (Bahamas) 70 mins


8:45pm Career Achievement Award Presentation and Reception
Pelican Bay Canal House
(Special guest honouree: Giancarlo Esposito)
*All Access Pass entrance only

9:30pm VIP Reception
Pelican Bay Canal House
*All Access Pass entrance only


Hosted at the Canal House, Pelican Bay Hotel, ?FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island will feature international and local films, outdoor screenings of Sammy 2: Escape from Paradise at Taino Beach and Port Lucaya Marketplace; presentation of a Career Achievement Award to Giancarlo Esposito, a filmmakers' workshop, location scouting for international filmmakers, and an awards presentation and wrap party at the Grand Lucayan Resort.

?We look forward to building on last year?s inaugural, and the visiting filmmakers are anxious for their upcoming visit to Grand Bahama Island,? said Mr. Gregory von Hausch, CEO, FLIFF.

"The purpose of the festival is to feature Grand Bahama Island as a film location of choice, with emphasis on proximity (to the United States), year-round good weather and an available crew base, and (to) build a strong international relationship with a tradition partner located nearby," said Craig Woods, Bahamas Film Commissioner.