GOING into the 12th annual Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) two weeks ago, founder and executive director Leslie Vanderpool emphasised the value of developing the festival while simultaneously improving the country’s local film industry, promising that this year’s selection of films would showcase the industry’s best in The Bahamas.

If her words were not valued from the outset, the likes of award-winning casting director, Lynn Kressel; writer, actress, director, Daniela Amavia; renowned music supervisor Jonathan McHugh; celebrated screenwriter, Amy Berg and Academy Award winner, Anders Thomas Jensen added credence to her claim. Over the course of the festival’s 12 days, the BIFF has brought “Hollywood to the Bahamas”...

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