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Dawn Breakers International Film Festival
LocationTraveling/International
No. of films100+
LanguageMultilingual
Websitehttp://www.dbiff.com

Dawn Breakers International Film Festival (DBIFF) was an international travelling film festival held in various cities throughout the world from 2007 to 2015. The festival debuted in Phoenix, Arizona and was later held in San Diego, Houston and Zürich. DBIFF was recognized as an important festival and nominated at the 2014 annual list of MovieMaker's "Top 25 Film Festivals of the World" in the Social Cause category.[1] Selected films from this festival has received theatrical distribution, television broadcast and four Academy Award nominations.

Background

The Festival is a non-profit organization focused on showcasing films and filmmakers who produce positive films. It has shown both independent and commercial films in the past few years. The filmmakers submit from around the world and there are no restrictions on what is accepted as long as it meets the theme of the festival. DBIFF is one of the few festivals in the world that also accepts Television, Music Videos and Websidoes in their selection. Several publications have covered the festival and the films including the Indian Express,[2] the BNS,[3] and the Samoan news.[4]

Since it is a traveling festival and may take place more than once within a year, it is also named by "Takes" alongside the year.

2007 / Take 1

The festival took place in San Diego with a circle of invited guests and audiences only. A number of films were screened through the two-day festival, however no public announcement of the official selections were made as there were no selection process that year and all films were invites only.[5]

2008 / Take 2

In 2008, it attracted some 500 attendees each day and a total of 1000 for both days from around the world. Films shown in the festival were selected from around the globe, some countries included India, Australia, United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Cambodia, France, Malaysia, Hungary, Pakistan, Canada and Ethiopia.

Films

2009 / Take 3

The 2009, also known as Take 3 Dawn Breakers International Film Festival took place in Zürich from December 26, 2009, to December 31, 2009.[6] This year's line-up included twice as many films as last year and took place over five days.

Films

2010 / Take 4

The 2010 film festival took place in the United States in the city of San Diego.[7] It was scheduled for November 26 through 27 at the Sheraton Hotel across San Diego International Airport. On November 13, 2010, a press release announced the festival's official selection which included 44 films in all categories.[8]

William Sears (Baháʼí) a popular TV host from the 1950s was honored during the festival.[9] Two of this year's selection are shortlisted for the 83rd Academy Awards.[10] and one was nominated.[11] Most of this year's selection were either world or international premiers.

Films

Below is a particle list of the selected films with notes about each film.

2011 / Take 5

A two-day festival was held in Houston. This festival marked DBIFF's premier in the south and the first major event to be held in the Houston Community Center.[12]

A Media Boot Camp in association with the BMS was held during the ABS conference in San Francisco in August 2011.[13]

2012 / Take 6

Take 6 / 2012 festival takes place in Switzerland.

Take 6 Films

Hueman Photography Contest

The festival announced a photography contest that would showcase the works of its finalists during the film festival.[14]

2013 / Take 7

The festival was held in Scottsdale, Arizona over two days and was the first time to be coordinated locally. It was the second time DBIFF proceeds went to charity,[15] the first being Houston.

2014 / Take 8

Submission period for the 2014 film festival took place over three months and ended in December 2013.[16]

2015 / Take 9

The 2015 festival was held online with content being broadcast from New York. The festival moved submission system to FilmFreeway.[17]

References

  1. ^ Colocino, Lara (2013-11-16). "Best Of: The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013". MovieMaker Magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  2. ^ "Animated Leap - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  3. ^ "Film festival brings it all together | Bahai Faith | Baha'i Faith". Archived from the original on 2009-04-06. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  4. ^ "Samoa News|Community Briefs". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  5. ^ http://www.dbiff.com Archived 2009-10-06 at the Wayback Machine Official website
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2010-07-25.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2010-07-25.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Take 4 / 2010 Festival". Archived from the original on 2010-11-16. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  9. ^ "William 'Bill' Sears | Dawn Breakers International Film Festival Honoree". Archived from the original on 2011-01-23. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2010-12-12.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ "The 83rd Academy Awards | 2011". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  12. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2011-03-13.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ^ "About « Media Boot Camp". Archived from the original on 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
  14. ^ "Hueman". Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  15. ^ "Dawn Breakers International Film Festival at Baha'i Faith Community Center in Scottsdale, AZ - Zvents". Archived from the original on 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
  16. ^ "Only Seeing is Believing - the Official Dawn Breakers Int. Film Festival Blog". Archived from the original on 2010-11-16. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  17. ^ "Film Festival Search". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2020-07-06.

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