Buffalo International Film Festival

Tell me a little bit more about when we may be able to see this.

Yeah, I hope people get to see it because it actually is having its world premiere locally at the Buffalo International Film Festival.

Congratulations.

Thank you very much.

Yeah.

And, um, th- in, in fact, what ended up happening is we first premiered the film at the Buffalo International Film Festival almost a year ago, October 25.

And we had an ending that worked pretty well, but then there was a big national strike that happened in November and December after we released the film.

So we went back, shot more material, and created a new ending that included this national strike that happened in basically winter of '25 and '26.

Said I should read, reread Catherine Pelonero's book or re-listen to it or a little of both, whatever, while we're going through the trial, so it'll be fresh on my brain computer and all the rest of it.

Man, I'm at the Buf- the 20th anniversary Buffalo International Film Festival, which was easily one of the best decisions that I made about this whole project.

Um, I sent that inquiry out about the film festival even before I had made a decision to come out here.

Sent that inquiry, and I said, "Man, Buffalo is really lame.

Ooh, go.

Wednesday and Thursday, the last two days of the Buffalo International Film Festival, if you're looking to see some local films or even international films shown here in Buffalo, even some making their debuts, there's two more days left, Wednesday and Thursday.

Very cool.

All right.

Today, we talk with Sara Casen.

Sara is the producer of a film that's premiering at the Buffalo International Film Festival.

It's called Thank You for Thinking of Me.

Sara, thanks for joining us.

It's really easy to connect with this family in a way that you never would be able to, um, just by reading a news article about twenty-twenty or, you know, seeing her face broadcast, um, after the event.

[sighs] I, I'm very curious about this because we're, we're talking about a long period of time here from, you know, June of twenty-twenty to where we are right now.

And the, the film, uh, Thank You for Thinking of Me, by the way, will be, uh, premiered at the, uh, Buffalo International Film Festival on Wednesday, October 14th at North Park Theatre.

Um, the origins of it, y- you were telling me beforehand that y- you were at a pro- at one of these protests that, that, that was what was going on at that time when the, the, the trooper got struck, uh, by the car, and that you also had seen, uh, Akram Shibley, the, uh, the director there at the same time.

Buffalo International Film Fest Horror Garage Sale by Tony Roberto.

For the twentieth year of the Buffalo International Film Festival beginning Thursday and running through October 15th, organizers have scheduled more than two hundred films plus panels, off-screen events, parties, and installations.

That includes movies and presentations from around the world with filmmakers coming from Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Sweden, and Canada, as well as movies with a Buffalo connection.

A series of short films under themes such as portraits, Saturday morning cartoons, and students, a showcase for emerging storytellers, are scheduled throughout.

Now, at noon...

On Monday, our film, The Long Hope, is being streamed as a part of the Buffalo International Film Festival.

And it's actually being hosted, the screening is being hosted by Buffalo Toronto Public Media, which is the company that runs WNED, the PBS television channel, and WBFO, the NPR radio station.

So we are going to be screening our film in Buffalo.

It's on Lower Terrace Road, I think is the address.

You can look up Buffalo Toronto Public Media.

But you need to go to the Buffalo International Film Festival website to order tickets to attend and to be a part of our screening.

So we're doing that on Monday at noon.

Buffalo International Film Fest for garage sale by Tony Roberto.

For the 20th year of the Buffalo International Film Festival, beginning Thursday and running through October 15th, organizers have scheduled more than 200 films, plus panels, off-screen events, parties, and installations.

That includes movies and presentations from around the world of filmmakers coming from Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Sweden, and Canada, as well as movies with a Buffalo connection.

A series of short films under themes such as Portraits, Saturday Morning Cartoons, and Students, a showcase for emerging storytellers, are scheduled throughout.

I'm your host, Adam Duke.

The 20th Annual Buffalo International Film Festival is just around the corner, and BIFF filmmaker Steve Rosenthal is bringing a documentary about the Humboldt Parkway restoration efforts in collaboration with actor Stephen McKinley Henderson and poet Jillian Hainsworth.

I spoke with Rosenthal about the doc, this year's BIFF, and the trio's goal to help the Humboldt restoration project.

All right, um, so this is your second BIFF, correct?

Gotcha

... uh, yeah, it's, it's an honor to be accepted.

Uh, Buffalo International Film Festival is a, is a great festival.

Yeah, and what's it like, uh, showing at North Park and just, um, kind of having that atmosphere around your film?