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 The Big Apple Film Festival, presented by the Big Apple Film Society, takes place annually at the world famous Tribeca Cinemas in the heart of the greatest city in the world.
The BAFF, named one of MovieMaker Magazine's top "25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee" and "One of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals", is dedicated to showcasing and promoting the highest quality films from the New York City independent film community, as well as additional specially selected films from across the country and around the world. Additionally, the festival is proud to honor a variety of New York City based filmmakers, writers, actors and artists who have played an influential role in the growth of independent filmmaking in the Big Apple. Each year BAFF presents awards in a variety of categories including Best Feature Film, Short Film, Documentary, Animation, Experimental, NYC Cityscape Award, Student Film Award, Golden Apple Award, and NY Emerging Talent Award.
Each year BAFF presents its NY Emerging Talent Award to an up-and coming actor and/or filmmaker who displays extraordinary talent and influence in the independent film community.
Previous NY Emerging Talent Award recipients include:
- Louisa Krause (King Kelly, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Young Adult, Double or Nothing).
- Noah Bean (Morning Glory, Damages, The Pill) and Rachel Boston (500 Days Of Summer, The Pill)
- Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Jesse Eisenberg
- Aaron Stanford (X-Men, Cake Eaters, Winter Solstice, The Hills Have Eyes)
- Zoe Lister Jones (Lola Versus, All Good Things, Armless, Breaking Upwards, State of Play, Salt, NBC's Whitney)
Each year BAFF presents its Golden Apple Award to one individual for exceptional artistic achievement in the New York City independent film community.
Previous Golden Apple Award recipients include:
- Academy Award nomintated director Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Mansome)
- Producer Anthony Bregman (Our Idiot Brother, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Oranges, Synechdoche, New York, The Ice Storm, The Brothers McMullen, Darling Companion, Lay The Favorite)
- Independent Spirit
Award nominee
Kevin Corrigan
- Emmy Nominee and Independent Spirit Award winner Alan Cumming (The Good Wife, X2, The Smurfs, The Anniversary Party)
- Ernie Hudson
2010 Spirit of New York Award recipient (inaugural year):
- actor/comedian
Mario Cantone
Previous panelists, guests and keynote speakers include representatives from:
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- Magnolia Pictures
- HBO
- movies.com
- Fandango
- Current TV
- Wellspring Media
- Cinematical.com
- Zeitgeist Films
- Wild Bunch Films
- First Run Features
- Gen Art
In order to bring the most elite talent to the silver screen, BAFF is proud to partner with a variety of New York City independent film organizations and media outlets including IFP and MovieMaker Magazine.
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| Big Apple Film Festival Breaking News |
May 1, 2013
BAFF Alumni "Circus Maximus", starring Julian McCullugh, Kevin Corrigan and Mario Cantone (BAFF Spirit of New York Award recipient), now available on Netflix
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April 3, 2013
BAFF award winning alumni, "The Pill", now available on Netflix
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March 18, 2013
BAFF alumni doc, "Uprising", receives glowing reviews from New York Times, LA Times, New York Post and Rotten Tomatoes.
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March 18, 2013
BAFF alumni, "Indigo Children", to be distributed by Striped Entertainment.
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March 18, 2013
BAFF alumni, "The Hunter" wins the Australian Academy Award for Best Short Animation.
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March 18, 2013
BAFF alumni "Defiant Requiem" (2012 BAFF Best Feature Documentary winner), picked up for distribution by Mercury Media, to premiere April 7 on PBS.
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March 5, 2013
"Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey", associate produced by BAFF
alumni and advisory board member David Paterson, in theaters this month.
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March 1, 2013
BAFF Award winning alumni "Whisper Me a Lullaby" gets rave reviews on Film Threat.
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February 15, 2013
IFP Now accepting submissions from first time filmmakers for this year's Independent Filmmaker Labs
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February 14, 2013
BAFF alumni "Almost in Love" starring Alan Cumming (BAFF Golden Apple Award recipient) and Alex Karpovsky to be released theatrically on Friday, February 15 at Dumbo's reRun Theater
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January 03, 2013
BAFF alumni doc "Uprising" to be released theatrically January 11
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December 12, 2012
BAFF alumni "Ex-Girlfriends" (BAFF Best Feature Film Winner) starring Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) and Kristen Connolly (The Cabin in the Woods) now available in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand on iTunes and Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Verizon, Amazon, Playstation, Xbox, CinemaNow, Vudu and Youtube
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November 20, 2012
9th Annual BAFF Presented Honorary Golden Apple Award To Academy Award Nominated Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock
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November 18, 2012
Big Apple Film Festival announces award winners
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November 18, 2012
BAFF NY Emerging Talent recipient Louisa Krause stars in King Kelly, to be released theatrically and on demand December 4.
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October 15, 2012
2012 Big Apple Film Festival, November 14-18 at Tribeca Cinemas, featuring : Ex-girlfriends, starring Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, Quarantine, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Gone), Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship, starring Anna Chlumsky (My Girl) and Cristin Milioti (Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street), The Ballad of Danko Jones starring Ralph Macchio and Elijah Wood, Double or Nothing starring Adam Brody, Louisa Krause, Keith David and written by Independent Spirit Award and Sundance Film Festival Award winner Neil Labute and much more …
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June 8, 2012
BAFF Award Winning Alumni, Zoe Lister-Jones (BAFF NY Emerging Talent Award Recipient) and Daryl Wein's latest film, "Lola Versus," To Be Released Theatrically
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Submissions are now being accepted for the 10th Annual Big Apple Film Festival.
Entry Deadlines:
- Early Bird Deadline: June 30, 2013
- Regular Deadline: August 01, 2013
- Late Entry Deadline: August 15, 2013
- WAB Extended Deadline: September 1, 2013
Submissions for the 2013 Big Apple Film Festival will begin March 1.
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"Ex-Girlfriends" (starring Jennifer Carpenter and Kristen Connolly) |
"Harvest" (starring Robert Loggia, Barbara Barrie, Victoria Clark, Arye Gross, Peter Friedman, and Jack T. Carpenter) Released by Monterey Media. (New York Times Critic Pick)
The film Harvest will be airing on Showtime. |
"Montana Amazon" (starring Haley Joel Osment, Olympia Dukakis, and Alison Brie) |
"The Pill" starring Noah Bean, Rachel Boston, and Anna Chlumsky (Shoot First Entertainment). Available on Cable on Demand and all major VOD platforms, including itunes.
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"Hello Lonesome"
Independent Spirit Award nominee
Will be released on DVD and Netflix in 2012 |
"Barbershop Punk" (featuring Janeane Garofalo and Henry Rollins) (NY Times Critic Pick) |
"Breaking Upwards" starring Zoe Lister Jones, Daryl Wein, Julie White, Olivia Thirlby (IFC Films) |
"Against the Current" starring Joseph Fiennes, Elizabeth Reaser, Justin Kirk, Mary Tyler Moore (IFC Films) |
"Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags" (HBO Documentary Films) |
"Defiant Requiem" |
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"New York City is still the hub of independent film. It's still where the independent spirit lives"
- Academy Award nominated director and BAFF Golden Apple Award recipient Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Mansome)
"Thank you Big Apple for helping to put "Kevin" on the map. Austin musician Kevin Gant had not performed for 15 years prior to last year's festival run, and theaters like Tribeca Cinemas are the perfect setting and film festivals provide the perfect audience for Kevin's comeback tour. Thanks Big Apple, for helping me introduce "Kevin" to the world."
- Director Jay Duplass (Jeff Who Lives at Home, Baghead, Cyrus, The Puffy Chair, Kevin)
"It's hard to imagine a festival more New York than Big Apple".
- MovieMaker Magazine
"In a time when most theaters are running the same homogenized dreck, BAFF is unveiling the upstart visionaries and out-of-left-field artists who remind us that there's a future to filmmaking."
- Producer Anthony Bregman (Our Idiot Brother, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Oranges, Synechdoche, New York, The Ice Storm, The Brothers McMullen, Darling Companion, Lay The Favorite)
"The big apple film festival plays the films that you hope people will get to see but worry that they won't be able to -- specifically, the ones I have been in."
- actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Holy Rollers, Zombieland, Adventureland)
"A festival that supports and promotes homegrown talent."
-Cinematical.com
"Big Apple is a great festival. By showing true, bootstrap independent films, they give support to the filmmakers that need it and deserve it the most."
- Actor, Aaron Stanford (The Cake Eaters, The Hills Have Eyes, X-Men)
"I salute the Big Apple Film Festival for keeping it real""
- Independent Spirit Award nominee Kevin Corrigan.
"The big apple film festival is fabulous. Such a supportive and wonderful showcase for NY filmmakers"
- Actor, Zoe Lister Jones (Lola Versus, All Good Things, Armless, Breaking Upwards, Salt, NBC's Whitney)
"The Big Apple Film Festival is what a film festival should be: it's not just a market or an excuse for swag, but a place where film, filmmakers and those who love them experience life outside the mainstream. Bravo Big Apple!"
- Emmy Nominee and Independent Spirit Award Winner Alan Cumming (actor/director)
"Apple of the City's Eye"
-MovieMaker Magazine |
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