LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: On Location with 2010 Big Island Film Festival at Mauna Lani Resort, Hawaii

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On Location with 2010 Big Island Film Festival at Mauna Lani Resort, Hawaii

ISLAND OF HAWAI’I—The Big Island “Talk Story” Film Festival (BIFF) will celebrate its fifth year May 12-16, 2010 at Mauna Lani Resort, “on location” in two luxury hotels, retail shopping center and restaurants. Acclaimed by MovieMaker Magazine in its 2009 Top 25 “Coolest Film Festivals,” BIFF brings a slice of Hollywood life to Hawaii’s Kohala Coast, with a full slate of 50+ new narrative films, national celebrities, social events and stellar Hawaiian music.

“We’re very pleased,” said BIFF Executive Director Leo Sears. “To have the opportunity to showcase ‘co-stars’ like The Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows, The Fairmont Orchid, and The Shops at Mauna Lani—it’s like having three leading ladies lined up for your new major motion picture.”

BIFF is a movie-lover’s nirvana, with back-to-back screenings of short and feature-length films during the day, evening movies in two different locations, awards brunch, a screenwriting workshop with Ron Osborn (“Duckman,” “The West Wing,” “Moonlighting”), celebrity receptions for an actor and a filmmaker, and “Best of the Fest” concert with audience-choice short and feature films.

Longtime Hawaii Island residents Leo and Jan Sears (Producer) began BIFF in 2006. “It all started during the Maui Film Festival in 2004,” said Sears. “We were sitting with Marilyn Killeri (then Big Island Film Commissioner) and asked her ‘why don’t we have something like this?’ and she said ‘because we need somebody to do it.’ So we did.” Sears himself a SAG actor, screenwriter, playwright and teacher, has watched the Festival expand every year, and hopes the new location will help continue the growth process.

Mauna Lani Resort will offer accommodations at two ocean front luxury resorts, The Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows and The Fairmont Orchid along with unparalleled shopping at The Shops at Mauna Lani.

For filmmakers world-wide, the final entry deadline is February 1, 2010. Narrative films (not documentaries) are accepted, both “shorts” (30 minutes or less) and feature-length (60 minutes or more), completed after January 1, 2009. Films shot in Hawaii or from filmmakers who live in Hawaii receive a 25% discount on entry fees (verification required).

The Big Island “Talk Story” Film Festival is a celebration of independent filmmaking with movies, special events, Hawaiian culture and music, all embraced by the spirit of Aloha, to help it grow into a premier event to share with the world.

For information, submission rules and application visit www.BigIslandFilmFestival.com or call 808-883-0394.


LINKS
www.BigIslandFilmFestival.com
www.MaunaLani.com
www.Fairmont.com/Orchid

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