We can't believe it's already been a week since the festival! ✨ Hear from some of our top award winners about their experience and words of wisdom for other filmmakers! 🎥 Featuring: "Golden Vanity" Star Melora Hardin - Best Actor "Golden Vanity" Co-Writer & Producer, Taylor Minas - Audience Award for a Feature Film "Ruby's Choice" Director, Michael Budd - Best Feature Film & Best Foreign Feature "Unforgotten" Director, Floriane Andersen - Best Director "Song of the Cicada" Directors, Aaron Weiss & Robert Weiss & Executive Producer, Hunter Davis - Best Documentary Feature "Radio Telescope" Director, Tanner Beard - Tim Burton Burbank Native Visionary Award #BIFF2023 #BIFF #BurbankFilmFestival #Burbank #TimBurton #TimBurtonDay #filmfestival #indiefilm #independentfilm #moviemagic #film #filmmaking #filmdirector #director #LA #Hollywood #BestActor #BestFeature #BestDirector #BestForeignFeature #BestDocumentary #documentary #filmawards #featurefilm

The Burbank International Film Festival is proud to celebrate its 15-year anniversary, Thursday, September 21st, through Sunday, September 24th, 2023. BIFF's schedule comprises cinema of every genre such as Comedies; Dramas; Star-Studded Features; Student Films; Animation; Sci-Fi; Supernatural; Horror; Thrillers; Films by Women; Faith Based Films; Foreign Films; Documentaries as well as Q&A's; Red Carpets: Celebrities; audience voting; informative panels and after-parties. Congratulations to all our sections! #BurbankInternationalFilmFestival #filmfestival #Burbank #Hollywood #LA #BurbankFilmFestival #BIFF #BIFF2023 #BeyondtheFrame #filmdirector #director #independentfilmmaking #indiefilm #movie #moviemagic #featurefilm

"Beyond the Frame" gives you a look inside this year's Official Feature Film Selections with the filmmakers themselves. 🎞️ We had the honor of speaking with Emmy-nominated actress, Melora Hardin, who stars in the first one-person film, “Golden Vanity." ✨ Directed by Max Abram, the film is set in Hollywood in 1967 over the course of one night, as faded movie star Mabel Montgomery-Mayflower decides to record her life story before it’s too late. We’re thrilled to have “Golden Vanity,” as the festival’s opening feature film TOMORROW, Sep. 21 at 8 p.m. at the AMC 16 Burbank, followed by a Q&A with Melora and the filmmakers. 📽️ Get your ticket at: https://givebutter.com/BIFF2023. #BurbankInternationalFilmFestival #filmfestival #Burbank #Hollywood #LA #BurbankFilmFestival #BIFF #BIFF2023 #BeyondtheFrame #filmdirector #director #independentfilmmaking #indiefilm #movie #moviemagic #featurefilm #GoldenVanity #MeloraHardin #oldhollywood

"Beyond the Frame" gives you a look inside this year's Official Feature Film Selections with the filmmakers themselves. 🎞️ This interview we speak with Michael Budd, Director & Producer of "Ruby's Choice," which stars two-time Golden Globe Winner Jane Seymour. Ruby’s Choice is a poignant tale that follows three generations of strong Australian women. 🎬 "Ruby's Choice" will be screening at the festival on Sunday, September 24 at 1:30 p.m. and will be followed by a Q&A. ✨ Get your ticket at: https://givebutter.com/BIFF2023. #BurbankInternationalFilmFestival #filmfestival #Burbank #Hollywood #LA #BurbankFilmFestival #BIFF #BIFF2023 #BeyondtheFrame #filmdirector #director #independentfilmmaking #indiefilm #movie #moviemagic #featurefilm #Ruby'sChoice #MichaelBudd #janeseymour #australia #australian

"Beyond the Frame" gives you a look inside this year's Official Feature Film Selections with the filmmakers themselves. 🎞️ We sat down with directors Bobby and Aaron Weiss, who spent a decade creating the documentary "Song of the Cicada," which chronicles the life of an eccentric mortician named Dale Carter in the coastal town of Galveston, Texas. "Song of the Cicada" is screening at the festival on Sunday, September 24, at 3:30 p.m. and will be followed by a Q&A with Bobby and Aaron. ✨ Get your tickets at: https://givebutter.com/BIFF2023. #BurbankInternationalFilmFestival #filmfestival #Burbank #Hollywood #LA #BurbankFilmFestival #BIFF #BIFF2023 #BeyondtheFrame #filmdirector #director #independentfilmmaking #indiefilm #movie #moviemagic #featurefilm #documentary #SongoftheCicada #mortician #Galveston #texas

"Beyond the Frame" gives you a look inside this year's Official Feature Film Selections with the filmmakers themselves. 🎞️ Our second interview is with Matt Steinauer, Writer & Director of "Mind Thief," a sci-fi thriller that takes us on a harrowing, sometimes humorous journey through the depths of the human psyche. 🎬 "Mind Thief" will be screening at the festival on Saturday, September 23 at 9 p.m. and will be followed by a Q&A. ✨ Get your ticket at: https://givebutter.com/BIFF2023. #BurbankInternationalFilmFestival #filmfestival #Burbank #Hollywood #LA #BurbankFilmFestival #BIFF #BIFF2023 #BeyondtheFrame #filmdirector #director #independentfilmmaking #indiefilm #movie #moviemagic #featurefilm #MindThief #MattSteinauer #crimedrama #thriller #scifi #mindcontrol

We are excited to launch our new interview series, "Beyond the Frame," giving you a look inside this year's Official Feature Film Selections with the filmmakers themselves. 🎞️ Our first interview is with Paul Tully, Writer & Director of "Replica," a love story about redemption. It's what the industry might call a "gritty crime drama," but it's so much more. Check out our interview with Paul, who spent ten years working on this story from a play, to a short film, to now a feature with a stellar cast, including Academy-Award nominee Mickey Rourke. 🎬 "Replica" will be screening at the festival on Friday, September 22 at 8 p.m. and will be followed by a Q&A with Paul and members of the cast and crew. ✨ Get your ticket at: https://givebutter.com/BIFF2023 #BurbankInternationalFilmFestival #filmfestival #Burbank #Hollywood #LA #BurbankFilmFestival #BIFF #BIFF2023 #BeyondtheFrame #filmdirector #director #independentfilmmaking #indiefilm #movie #moviemagic #featurefilm #Replica #PaulTully #crimedrama #thriller #mickeyrourke

The Burbank City Council has declared that Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, will be “Tim Burton Day” in recognition of the Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice filmmaker. That evening, at 7:00pm, he will attend the awards gala at the Burbank Marriott Convention Center, and will sit down with Scott Feinberg for a life/career-retrospective conversation that will also be recorded for The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. There's a variety of ways to join the fun by purchasing a: 1) VIP All-Access Badge ($250 each) - Includes: Entry to all 2023 BIFF screenings at the AMC Burbank 16, the Opening Night Reception on Thursday night, the after-parties on Friday and Saturday night and the AWARDS GALA on Sunday, September 24, 2023 to be held at the BURBANK MARRIOTT CONVENTION CENTER, 2500 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, 91505. 2) Buy a ticket to the Awards Gala ($100 each). The Burbank International Film Festival is 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. See posters & trailers for film screenings on the BIFF website #BIFF2023 #burbank #creativitydreamsbig #burbankinternationalfilmfestival #filmfestival #filmmaking #timburton #timburtonday #awardsgala #thehollywoodreporter