Big Island Film Festival announces official selections

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Big Island Film Festival has announced its 58 official selections that will be screened May 26 to 30 at Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii and The Shops at Mauna Lani.

Big Island Film Festival has announced its 58 official selections that will be screened May 26 to 30 at Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii and The Shops at Mauna Lani.

The new, independent shorts and feature-length films are diverse, with something for every movie fan genre from sci-fi to all kinds of romance, comedy, zombie suspense, martial arts action, captivating mysteries, family stories, and a short, “Cosmopenguin,” by a 7-year old Austrian filmmaker.

The Official Selections for BIFF 2016 are: “A Mighty Nice Man,” “As You Like It,” “Bernie and Rebecca,” “Between the Miles,” “Beyond Shattered Lenses,” “Blue Borsalino,” “Boomerang,” “Breathe,” “Catfish Blues,” “Cosmopenguin,” “Cuddle Party,” “Danny Boy,” “Diablo (Devil),” “Dream Land,” “Ellis,” “Fade,” “Frankie (Italian roulette),” “God Is A Dog,” “Green Lake,” “Hook Man,” “Indigo,” “Instance,” “Jack’s Apocalypse,” “Jagon,” “Last Call at Murray’s,” “Market St.,” “Monty and the Runaway Furnace,” “New Generation,” “Out of the village,” “Plan Z,” “Popolo,” “Prick,” “Psychoanalysis,” “Rated,” “Regression,” “Reservations For Three?,” “Ribbons,” “Romantic Rouse,” “Speaking of Fairies,” “Spunkle,” “Stoked Steves,” “Superior,” “The Bad Mother movie,” “The Bench,” “The Boy,” “The Closer,” “The End aka John Doe,” “The End of Blessings,” “The Kidnapping of a Fish,” “The Light Thief,” “The Schoolboy,” “The Surrender Call,” “Throuple,” “Water Girl,” “West of Her,” “White Lies Blue Dream,” “Wifey Redux,” and “Winter’s Dream.”

The five-day Big Island Film Festival schedule includes free opening night and family films at The Shops at Mauna Lani, daytime movies and screenings under the stars at Plantation Estate, special events, screenwriting workshops, Awards Brunch and more.

A limited number of ballots will be given to audience members during each screening. Votes are tallied at the end of the festival, to determine the Audience-choice Feature and Short to be screened at Best of the Fest on May 30.

Info: www.BigIslandFilmFestival.com.