It feels as though there’s been a noticeable shift in movies since the pandemic, particularly towards characters who have retreated from society. From a woman.
‘One Night In Miami’
Live performances of songs from films, a career tribute for filmmaker Denys Arcand moderated by five-time New York Emmy award winner Jeffrey Lyons and an in- depth case study of documentary filmmaking from Sara Nodjoumi and Lisa Kleiner Chanoff are among the highlights of the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) running online from January 4-10, 2021.
“I was humming and hawing about hosting a physical event, with so many restrictions and uncertainty,” says BIFF founder and executive director Leslie Vanderpool. “Even though filmmakers want to attend, I would not want them to fly all this way and there be another curfew or lockdown.”