"Welcome to the 15th annual IFFF held at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California. We like the sound of "15". IFFF celebrates cultural diversity, creativity, tolerance and global unity in its exhibition of excellent family films and screenplays. Over the five days, the festival screened 86 film products from 14 countries and 15 professional film schools that attest to our emphasis on multi-cultural themes and global collaboration. On behalf ...
2009 IFFF AWARDS FOR FILM AND SCREENPLAY It reads like a comedy but this time, the real story surpasses any possible reel version and everyone is truly a winner…FADE IN:INT. COCO’S RESTAURANT – NIGHTSUPER: Valencia, CA 1993Two couples sip coffee over earnest discussion of the gratuitous violence in films and the effect it has on America, specifically our children. There must be something more the film industry can offer besides bombs, guns, knives and snakes on a plane. They thirst for goo...
Sunday March 2nd 2008, the International Family Film Festival culminated four days of diverse feature films, shorts films, student shorts, industry panels and workshops, the Screenwriter’s Showcase & Award Ceremony, the Freshi Road Show, receptions, interviews and networking, with the prestigious IFFF Awards Ceremony & Banquet. At the black tie event, Chris Shoemaker, one of the festival founders and IFFF’s Executive Director, said of the 13th IFFF, “Yesterday afternoon the Goodyear Blimp...
The 2008 International Family Film Festival is opening its 13th season at the landmark Raleigh Studios in the heart of Hollywood on Thursday February 28th! When thinking about the IFFF, that great hit by the O’Jays, Love Train comes to mind. This song personifies the IFFF like no other. The first stanza reads,” The next stop that we make will be England. Tell all the folks in Russia and China too. Don’t you know its time to get on board? And let this train keep on riding, riding on t...
Walden Media (The Chronicles of Narnia) will be the first recipient of the 2008 International Family Film Festival Film Excellence Award for their steadfast commitment to quality Family Films and the production of classic children’s literature on Sunday March 2nd, 6:30PM at Hollywood’s own, Raleigh Studios. This is the first time that the 13 year old film festival has chosen to honor a production company for their contributions to the family film library. This precedent-setting honor was vo...
The Opening Night Hoop-La! begins Thursday February 28th at 12:00pm with feature and short films simultaneously screening in the 3 theatres at the Raleigh Studios. To name a few Screenings: at 4:00 is Conchita Nora Villa’s Alondra Smiles (about a young girl’s quinceanera jeopardized by a jealous cousin); followed by Dennis Fallon’s All Roads Lead Home (the story of a troubled girl who questions her value in life) at 6:00; and at 8:00, Sandy Tung’s Alice, Upside Down (the story of a “t...
