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The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) is presented every Presidents Day Weekend in Boulder...

The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) is presented every Presidents Day Weekend in Boulder, Colorado More than 13,000 filmmakers, national media, special guests and film enthusiasts attended BIFF 2008. The Festival was started in 2004 by two sisters, Kathy and Robin Beeck (pronounced Beck), who were at the time filmmakers themselves. Having travelled extensively to several festivals with their films, the Beeck sisters saw Boulder, CO as the perfect venue for a new festival which celebrated "the bold spirit of independent filmmaking". With BIFF, the sisters created what they perceived as a "filmmaker's film festival". Festival co-creator Robin Beeck's secret to a great festival: “The theme of the festival is great storytelling. No matter what the budget, the mainstay has to be a wonderful, great story. We’ve got great stories that were expensive to make, and we have great stories that were made on a shoestring budget.” In 2008 BIFF created at Youth Advisory Committee made up of 15 local film enthusiasts in grades 8-12. The Festival is presented by The Colorado Film Society: a nonprofit, community-based organization whose mission is to celebrate the art of film by creating a