Unlike many film festivals, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival doesn’t last for a weekend or a week, it goes for over five weeks. This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Festival and movie lovers and filmmakers are flocking to five star Fort Lauderdale hotels to enjoy the event.
This year FLiFF runs from September 27th through November 11th. The Festival will screen more than 175 films and host a multitude of fillmmakers and celebrity guests. This amazing celebration of film will include the World Premieres of 10 new films as well as the US Premieres of another 11 movies. Michael Murphy will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award in October for his work on films such as An Unmarried Woman, M*A*S*H* and X-Men: The Last Stand, and two other Lifetime Achievement Awards, for iconic actresses Jane Russell and Claire Bloom , will be awarded in November.
FLiFF will be screening World Cinema, American Independent features, documentaries, and shorts. There will also be a number of community events that are free. These include Cinema by the Sea screening on the beach and the Halloween BOO-tacular which offers families hay rides, a spooky pumpkin patch, a scream contest and a screening of the Daffy Duck film Quackbasters.