Meeting Set for April 23rd at the Ridgefield Library
The Ridgefield Independent Film Festival (RIFF) is seeking volunteers to help before and during its second annual festival, happening May 19-21 at five venues around town. RIFF will host a meeting for those interested at the Ridgefield Library on Sunday, April 23rd at 2p.m. in the Kellen Children's Program Room on the Main Level. Volunteers can also sign up here: http://www.riff.website/volunteer-form/.
In RIFF's inaugural year, several filmmakers traveled -- from as far away as China and Los Angeles -- to Ridgefield to attend screenings of their films. In a show of the town's great hospitality and welcoming spirit, some Ridgefield residents opened their homes to these visiting filmmakers. Once again, RIFF is searching for hosts for visiting filmmakers. For more information, please email info@riff.website.
"We were so impressed with Ridgefield residents and businesses last year, who opened their homes to filmmakers, their wallets in support of the festival, and came out in droves to support the hard work of filmmakers by attending the festival," recalls RIFF Founder, Joanne Hudson. "We got so much positive feedback from filmmakers on the friendliness of our town that they went and rated us among the top 100 film festivals (on FilmFreeway) in our very first year."
The Ridgefield Independent Film Festival is nonprofit and is made possible through grants, donations and sponsorships from local businesses, including townvibe, Hamlet Hub and Silver Hill Hospital. RIFF is currently looking for additional sponsors to power 2017's festival. For more information, please visit our sponsor page here. There are also still ad spots available in the RIFF program guide, which will be distributed at locations all over Fairfield County in advance of the festival and handed out to all festival attendees. Deadline to secure advertising space is April 15th. For more info, email info@riff.website.
To make a tax-deductible donation to RIFF, please visit our page at Fractured Atlas, our fiscal sponsor for 2017 here.
RIFF announced its full schedule last week -- 55 films from 19 countries at five venues over the course of three days. Passes and tickets are available at www.riff.website. RIFF runs May 19-21, 2017.