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"Discovering the Storyteller Within You!"
Freshi Films has presented summer camps fully supported by the International Family Film Festival, http://ifff.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=L5WqQwAzAAEAAAKaAAPg3g, for the past six years. Meeting the demands of past campers, Freshi Films has added a new element to the camp experience in 2010. The camps are now two weeks long with one week being an Acting Camp and one week being Filmmaking. Participating campers come from different states an...
“Discovering the Storyteller Within You!” Freshi Films has presented summer camps fully supported by the International Family Film Festival, www.iffilmfest.org, for the past six years. Meeting the demands of past campers, Freshi Films has added a new element to the camp experience in 2010. The camps are now two weeks long with one week being an Acting Camp and one week being Filmmaking. Participating campers come from different states and from countries around the world come together to make...
Great Stories Bring Families Together The International Family Film Festival (IFFF) is coming to “the lot” at the world famous Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, 5300 Melrose Avenue, February 26th – March 1st, 2009 with a plethora of premiers and international debuts. Not only are select films being screened from around the world, but IFFF has introduced a new ratings system: CH – Children 12 and under GA – General Audience ...
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...
"When I think about the upcoming 2008 International Family Film Festival, I begin humming that great hit by the O’Jays, Love Train. To me, 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 through. People all over the world, join hands, start a love train, love train!” by Yvonne Farrow The ...
This year’s International Family Film Festival has selected Alice, Upside Down, by writer/producer/director Sandy Tung, as its opening night feature presentation, screening Thursday, February 28th at 8:00pm at the landmark, Raleigh Studios. The premiere is followed by a fiesta-filled reception at the famous, Lucy’s El Adobe Café on Melrose. Funny and poignant, Alice Upside Down is the story of a young girl in her “tweens”, grappling with finding her identity after the loss of her moth...
Not sure where the kids were this summer? Look no further than Freshi Film Camp at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. In three separate camps throughout the month of July, Freshi Films, with the sponsorship of the International Family Film Festival, worked with aspiring young filmmakers from around the country to create live-action short films. These films were created by the student filmmakers, aged 7 to 17, from start to finish and viewed by parents, family, and friends at the weekly film sh...
The International Family Film Festival (IFFF) is presenting an impressive line up of events designed specifically to serve the needs of the independent filmmaker. A long list of industry decision-makers have joined the festival and volunteered to sit on panels and share their insight and knowledge with the participants. The following is a listing of the events. Watch your releases over the next two weeks as the Festival profiles the participants on the panels.The Festival is especially excite...
The third day of the International Family Film Festival is scheduled to be a bonanza of riches for the screenwriters. Starting at 10 am with a Panel led by the acclaimed Founder and Director of the Writer's Boot Camp, Jeffrey Gordon, followed by an emersive writer's session led by The Writer's Workshop after lunch, and then a two hour "Pitch Me" experience where writers are invited to bring material to pitch for feedback from a panel of acquisitions professionals in the film industry.The Scree...
Seven individual students and four class entries numbered among film and screenplay winners, as the International Family Film Festival concluded its 12th annual What IFFF? Kids Film Festival and Film Camp.An awards ceremony, held June 30, capped events of the festival and film camp, which began June 26 at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood. The Fest moved from its longtime home in Santa Clarita to the new site this year."We're all pleased to say that the new site was a booming success...
The International Family Film Festival is celebrating its twelfth year in Valencia at the Regal/Edwards Cinemas on Town Center Drive September 22-September 30, 2006. According to Chris Shoemaker, IFFF Executive Director, “This is a special year for the festival. Not only is it our twelfth year in the Santa Clarita Valley but it is the 100th Anniversary of Friz Freleng, the Father of Warner Bros. animation and the namesake of our Lifetime Achievement Award, The Friz. There are lots of thrill...
This year the International Family Film Festival will be honoring two greats in the film industry. Henry Selick will receive the Friz Award for Animation on October 1, 2005 at the Awards Ceremony. Henry Selick is best known as the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. He is one of the leading stop motion animation professionals working in the world today. He is a graduate of Cal Arts in the first class of Character Animation. He went on to work for Disney...
The 11th Annual International Family Film Festival is set to open on September 23, 2005 at the Regal/Edwards Grand Palace Theater with a slate of 80 films from 12 countries. The opening film is Come Away Home, a California premiere, from American Family Films, directed by Doug McKeon, written by Robert D. Slane and starring Lea Thompson, Paul Dooley, Martin Mull, Thomas Gibson, David Keith and Jordan-Claire Green. The film is the heartwarming story of a 12-year-old New York girl who leaves th...
The 2nd Great American Pitchfest is Coming!Last year, the Great American PitchFest set the bar for Pitch events in Hollywood. Writers and creators came from all over the world to meet with Hollywood decision makers. Many had their scripts optioned, were signed by agents, and found producing partners. Their shows are getting made!The next Great American PitchFest will be held on April 29, 30 & May 1st at the Sheraton Universal in Los Angeles.Some of the companies who participated last year inc...
