"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)

"The big apple film festival is fabulous. Such a supportive and wonderful showcase for NY filmmakers"

- Actor, Zoe Lister Jones (Armless, Breaking Upwards, Salt)

"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!"

- Alan Cumming (actor/director)

"The big apple film fesitval 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 (Holy Rollers, Zombieland, Adventureland)

"Apple of the City's Eye"

-MovieMaker Magazine

Alumni Films in the Spotlight

• "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)
• "Love Hurts" starring Richard E. Grant, Carrie Ann Moss, Janeane Garofalo, Jenna Elfmann (Lanter Lane Entertainment)
• “Suffering Man's Charity” directed by Alan Cumming
• “Love, Ludlow” (Warner Home Video)
• “Owl and the Sparrow” (2007 Independent Spirit Award nominee)
• Chubb Chubb Saves X-mas (2007 Sony Pictures Release)
• "The Project" (2008 Slamdance Film Festival Audience Award Winner)
• "The Living Wake" (audience award winner, Woodstock Film Festival Heineken Red Star Award, Cinevegas Film Festival)
• "Picture Day" (2008 Student Academy Award nominee)
• "Megatron" (winner Palm D'or, Short Film Category, Cannes Film Festival)
• "Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans and the Movies" (featuring Chazz Palminteri, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Jack Valenti, David Chase, Ben Gazzara, Isabella Rossellini and others)
• iMurders (starring William Forsythe, Terri Colombino, Frank Grillo, Charles Durning).

About the Festival

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.

NY Emerging Talent Award

Previous NY Emerging Talent Award recipients include:

• Independent Spirit Award Nominee Jesse Eisenberg (Holy Rollers, Zombieland, Adventureland, The Squid and the Whale, Rodger Dodger)

• Aaron Stanford (X-Men, Cake Eaters, Winter Solstice, The Hills Have Eyes)
• Zoe Lister Jones (Armless, Breaking Upwards, State of Play, Salt)

Golden Apple Award

Previous Golden Apple Award recipients include:

• Alan Cumming

• Ernie Hudson

Previous panelists, guests and keynote speakers include representatives from:

• Samuel Goldwyn Films
• Magnolia Pictures
• HBO
• Current TV
• Wellspring Media
• Cinematical.com
• Zeitgeist Films
• Wild Bunch Films
• First Run Features and
• Gen Art

Visiting the Big Apple