By Ellie Woodward Twitter: @elwooderz Lanre Malaolu is a director and choreographer interested in developing timely, socially engaged work using a unique fusion of hip-hop dance, physical theatre and dialogue. He was commissioned by the BFI Doc Society to make his hybrid dance-documentary filmThe Circle, which had its world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest last year. […]
First published Monday 1st June, 2020 BAFTA have been jumping on the bandwagon of black people and black organisations for decades and have consistently shown their disrespect and disregard for the black community. By posting their tasteless tweet about George Floyd – today was not the day to declare their “solidarity with the black community”. […]
There are so many festivals out there. But yet there’s something special about BUFF. Often described as the ‘BUFFNESS’ it is the pre-festival, screening and post-festival opportunities that we lay on for our filmmakers and award winners that maintains our 14 year reputation as the no.1 European Film Festival for Diverse exhibition of Film. Here’s […]
Rules and Eligibility You can read about our voting and adjudication process here, and download a pdf of all this information here. The British Independent Film Awards are for theatrical feature films and short films. The majority of categories are only open to British, independent films. There are separate eligibility criteria for international independent films. In all cases, final […]
BT British Urban Film Festival reveals September schedule Over 30 film screenings plus 2 masterclasses, The Live Script Readings and the BUFF Awards ceremony will all be hosted at the BT Tower from 6-12 September. London, 29 June Urban independent cinema arrives at the BT Tower this September as festival director Addie […]
BUFF is happy to announce it’s partnership with leading news site Film-News.co.uk Film-News.co.uk is a leading independent publisher featuring news, reviews, interviews, competitions, the latest releases and all the gossip from the worldwide film and movie scene. Launched in October 2007 Film-News.co.uk provides breaking news 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Under the Film News umbrella we also have Film News […]
BT partners with BUFF to sponsor the British Urban Film Festival London, 26/05/17 BUFF – the leading film festival for diversity in the world – has found a new home for its annual showpiece after BT agreed to sponsor the seven day event for 2017. Under the terms of the deal, from September this […]
London, Monday 7th November 2016 The actor, whose recent list of credits include ‘The Good Lie’, ‘Brotherhood’ and ‘A United Kingdom’ is the latest addition to the board of the British Urban Film Festival, founded by Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe in 2005 to raise the profile of film diversity in the UK. Arnold Oceng was recently unveiled by Screen International […]
We are so proud and delighted to announce SHOLA AMA as our headline act for BUFF Awards 2016. Shola Ama is certainly no newcomer to the UK music industry. Her debut album Much Love entered the UK charts at #6 selling over one million copies and scoring Shola the Top 5 singles ‘You Might Need […]
Global broadcaster TRACE sponsors the 2016 British Urban Film Festival Awards International brand TRACE, the leading multimedia group dedicated to urban entertainment, has signed a partnership agreement with the British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) to sponsor the Best Feature category at the upcoming British Urban Film Festival Awards ceremony, taking place on Sunday 18th September […]