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Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival To Present Lois Weber Award To Sabrina PeÑa Young BUFFALO, N.Y. - June 30, 2019 - PRLog -- Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival will present this year's Lois Weber Award to local artist Sabrina Peña Young. The festival's mission is to bring the best independent genre films from around the world to Western New York, and to shine a spotlight on local film artists. Now in its seventh year, Buffalo Dreams is a multi-genre celebration of independent film which runs for one week, August 23rd – 29th, at the Dipson Theaters Eastern Hills Cinema, 4545 Transit Road, Williamsville, New York. The award is named in honor of Lois Weber (1879 – 1939), the first female film director in the United States, and recognizes the accomplishes of women who have distinguished themselves in the art of filmmaking. Weber pioneered the split screen framing technique, and was known as a "star maker" for her efforts on behalf of new actresses. As ...

Welcome to Space Force Movie World Premier at Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival this November Buffalo New York Here are the 71 Shorts (including Micro Shorts and Short Features) we have selected for screening at  Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival 2018, totaling 18 hours' worth of thought provoking entertainment. Official notifications and laurels will go out tonight, we know that many of you have been waiting and we didn't want to keep you any longer. Our schedule will be posted next week. The list below will be updated with corrections. It will also be folded into the Features announcement. Thank you all for submitting, and just a reminder that anyone who submitted is granted 2 All Festival Passes. Western New York Shorts 1. Once Around Is Never Enough - 25:32, Doc 2. Locke (29:00) Special Non-Competition 3. Pumpkin Bitch - 10:49 4. Test of Faith - 36 mins 5. Welcome to Space Force - 8 mins WNY 6. Within the Woods - 13 mins 7. Unbridled - 6 mins 8. Ern...

BUFFALO NEW YORK is home to a new exciting film experience - Indie Filmmaker Boot Camp! Local filmmakers in Western New York get together to create brand new EXCITING short films! Learn how to make a film. So far the camp has produced two new films - the suspenseful The Noise Within and the fun comedy Welcome to Space Force. The Noise Within was premiered at the Screening Room in Amherst, New York at the Buffalo Movie and Video Maker annual contest and won first place.  The film, directed by emerging filmmaker Chris Thomas, was filmed in only two nights! Welcome to Space Force has been submitted to the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival , which is a premier local event of incredible international and regional films in science fiction, horror, animation, drama, and more. This event is a bastion of indie filmmaking in the Western New York film region. Filmmakers had six weeks to write, film, and edit the short film, which was located in Kenmore, New York. REGISTRATION i...

Sergeant Singer (Christopher Fire) & Captain Flinger (Sebastiano Spurio) discuss the new recruits of Space Force. Welcome to Space Force Movie Wraps in Buffalo New York After six weeks of writing, pre-production, filming, and editing, "Welcome to Space Force" finally wrapped in Buffalo, New York.  Space Force drafts an unlikely band of crazy recruits in this original zany short film directed by Chris Thomes for Buffalo’s Indie Filmmaker Boot Camp. Producer Sabrina Peña Young hopes to premier "Welcome to Space Force" in the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival , hosted by filmmakers Chris Scioli and Gregory Lamberson, of "Slime City" and "Killer Rack" fame. Aaron B. Webb, director of  the award-winning short film Last Trip, plays Mullitch. Become a part of the Space Force team and join the "Welcome to Space Force" official Facebook page at:  https://www.facebook.com/pg/spaceforcemovie/about/?ref=page_internal ...

Buffalo Filmmaker Boot Camp Channels their inner Space Force with "Welcome to Space Force", Directed by Chris Thomas  What happens when a bunch of Buffalo Filmmakers decides to get together and create a new zany film in only SIX WEEKS? Well, you get "Welcome to Space Force". Hosted by local filmmakers and music producers Aaron Webb and Sabrina Pena Young, "Welcome to Space Force" is a crazy and ambitious short film project.  Part of Young's Indie Filmmaker Boot Camp challenge, the film production moves from concept to realization in six weeks. Usually hosted in Kenmore, this became a "Rogue" Boot Camp when the group found themselves without a location due to a paperwork error. Nonplussed, the group decided to get together anyway and met in Webb's basement. There they brainstormed ideas and came up with a concept centered on Space Force. The first day of production went smoothly, with actors and crew alike almost literally dyi...

Got the Election Blues?  Animated Sci Fi Musical Showing  TODAY in Buffalo New York 3:15pm EST at the Screening Room Cafe 3131 Sheridan Drive, Northtown Plaza Amherst, NY   http://www.buffalodreamsfantasticfilmfestival.com/2016-program/schedule/ Libertaria The Virtual Opera At the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival What the critics are saying about  Libertaria: The Virtual Opera : “One of my favorite things about this story is its odd apocalyptic tone and strong sci-fi/fantasy foundation. The dark quality that comes with it is the cherry on top.” – FanboysAnonymous.com “...As a story, it is very much in line with the good-vs.-evil sci-fi tradition, with the added bonus of a plucky female heroine…There are a good many percussion effects in the  # opera , and its tone is primarily quite dark an d sinister, very much along the lines of a contemporary video game score .” Palm Beach Arts Paper Music Critic Greg Stepanich Based...