November 14-18, 2012, Tribeca Cinemas, New York City
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Big Apple Film Festival Breaking News

January 24, 2012
2012 BAFF Best Documentary Award Winner "Miracle Ball: My Hunt for the Shot Heard Around the World" to premiere on Discovery Channel.

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January 17, 2012
BAFF Alumni film "Harvest" starring Jack Carpenter and Robert Loggia to air on Showtime.

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December 08, 2011
BAFF alumni doc, "The Weird World of the Blowfly" now available on DVD and Blue-Ray from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ITunes, Best Buy, Netflix and on Demand Cable from Time Warner, Verizon, AT&T, as well as select theaters.

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December 08, 2011
BAFF 2011 Cityscape Award winner, "The Pill" opens theatrically on Friday, December 16 at the Quad Cinemas in NYC.

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December 08, 2011
BAFF alumni doc, DRESSED is nominated for Favorite Fashion Documentary by The Taste Awards!

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December 01, 2011
Congratulations to BAFF alumni film "Hello Lonesome" for a 2011 Independent Spirit Award nomination

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November 11, 2011
BAFF Award Winning Alumni doc "Barbershop Punk" named New York Times Critic Pick

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November 07, 2011
2011 Big Apple Film Festival announces award winners

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October 30, 2011
8th Annual Big Apple Film Festival presents the Big Apple Blogger Series, in which leading NYC bloggers and critics will host discussions with BAFF Filmmakers and cast members

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October 13, 2011
8th Annual BAFF Presents NY Emerging Talent Award to Noah Bean (Morning Glory, Damages, The Pill) and Rachel Boston (500 Days Of Summer, The Pill)

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October 3, 2011
2011 BAFF To Present Honorary Golden Apple Award To 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)

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September 26, 2011
8th Annual BAFF, November 1-6 at Tribeca Cinemas, featuring 184 films including "The Fields" starring Cloris Leachman, Tara Reid, "Kevin" directed by Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Baghead, Jeff Lives at Home), "The Pill" starring Noah Bean (Morning Glory) and Rachel Boston (500 Days of Summer), and much more...

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Submissions for the 2012 Big Apple Film Festival will begin March 1.

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Alumni Films in the Spotlight

True to the Heart Movie Poster - 2011
True to the Heart (starring Andrew Ruth, Meghan Grace O'Leary, and Michael Hartney) Released by Epiphany Storm Productions
Harvest Movie Poster - 2011
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 Movie
Montana Amazon (starring Haley Joel Osment, Olympia Dukakis, and Alison Brie)
Vamperifica Movie Poster - 2011
Vamperifica (starring Martin Yurkovic, Dreama Walker, and Creighton James)
Hello Lonesome Movie
Hello Lonesome
Independent Spirit Award nominee
Will be released on DVD and Netflix in 2012
Barbershop Punk Movie
Barbershop Punk (featuring Janeane Garofalo and Henry Rollins) (NY Times Critic Pick)
Breaking Upwards
"Breaking Upwards" starring Zoe Lister Jones, Daryl Wein, Julie White, Olivia Thirlby (IFC Films)
Against the Current
"Against the Current starring Joseph Fiennes, Elizabeth Reaser, Justin Kirk, Mary Tyler Moore (IFC Films)
Schmatta
"Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags" (HBO Documentary Films)
Love Hurts
"Love Hurts" starring Richard E. Grant, Carrie Ann Moss, Janeane Garofalo, Jenna Elfmann (Lantern Lane Entertainment)
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"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 (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