BIFF Panels – In Focus + On Location: Bashira

341 Delaware Avenue,Buffalo NY 14202

07 October, 2022

Description

BIFF PANEL In Focus + On Location: Bashira Oct 7 @ 3pm – 4pm: live @ Hallwalls + live streamed to social + website This panel focuses on Bashira, BIFF's Opening Night Gala Spotlight – and explores place (real + imagined) in story and cinema, and cinema as a landscape onto itself. Panelists will discuss their film, shooting on location in our multinational region, collaborative poiesis and exchange, and more. In Bashira, an electronic musician (Liam Aiken) and a troubled fan with a haunting voice (Mitzi Akaha) are plunged into a hallucinogenic nightmare when they must confront an ancient entity capable of bending space and time, and wreaking havoc and death; in order to save their own souls and the lives of those they love. Based on a Japanese legend and shot on location throughout Buffalo and surrounding lands (including The Statler, Rock City State Forest, and more!), this musical-horror-fantasy film is one wild ride! It features state-of-the-art special effects that merge studio and WNY locations into new worlds. Panelists: Director Nickson Fong, and Stars Liam Aiken, Mitzi Akaha, Kiki Sukezane, Emma Caymares, and Brandon Gill. Moderator: Anna Scime