BFC Timeline
2010
March
- March 31, 2010 BFC co-founder Christopher Redmond presents the BFC films at Ottawa's PechaKucha
February
- February 13-18, 2010 BFC co-founder Raymond Kalisa presents the BFC at the Berlin International Film Festival
2009
December
- December 4 , 2009 Burundi Film Center is featured in Variety Magazine!
June
- June 20, 2009 Home Free screens at Citizenship and Immigration Canada - Vancouver office
June 20, 2009 Home Free screens at UNHCR - Bujumbura office
June 20, 2009 Home Free screens at UNHCR - Dar es Salaam office
June 19, 2009 Home Free screens at Department of Foreign Affairs
June 12, 2009 Home Free screens at Citizenship and Immigration Canada's Youth Network
June 9, 2009 Home Free screens at York University's Refugee Studies Centre
- June 8, 2009 Home Free screens at Walkerton District Secondary School
June 4, 2009 Home Free screens in Ottawa at Citizenship and Immigration Canada
June 1, 2009 Home Free screens at Canadian Association of Forced Migration Conference
May
- May 28, 2009 Home Free presented at Canadian Council for Refugees Annual Consultations
April
- April 9-12, 2009 BFC films screen at Dawson City International Short Film Festival
March
- February 28 - March 7, 2009 BFC films screen at FESPACO
- March 2009 Home Free screens at Universitry of Toronto
February
- February 22, 2009 Canadian premiere of Home Free as part of Black History Month
January
- January 3, 2009 BFC films are broadcast on Peralta Television in California
2008
December
- December 11, 2008 Home Free screens for UN Refugee summit in Geneva
December 10, 2008 BFC films screen at Cineca in Dakar, Senegal
December 5, 2008 BFC films screen at Whistler Film Festival
November
- November 19, 2008 BFC and Papy Jamaica Studios shoot climate change video with Tiva.tv
November 5, 2008 C. Redmond presents BFC film at Regent Park Film Festival
November 1, 2008 BFC films play at Redemptive Film Festival
October
- October 24, 2008 BFC holds screening fundraiser in New Edinburgh, Ottawa
October 21, 2008 BFC signs with Renderyard International Film Agency
October 17, 2008 BFC films play at International Film Festival South Africa
October 13, 2008 Production of Home Free begins in Tanzania
October 8, 2008 Nothing's the Same plays at Raindance Film Festival
October 3, 2008 Kivumvu: Basket Boy plays at Tacoma Film Festival
October 1, 2008 Story on BFC in New Edinburgh News
September
- September 28, 2008 Nothing's the Same wins Redeptive Storyteller Award
September 26, 2008 Great lakes Independent Film Festival
September 21, 2008 Kivumvu:Basket Boy plays at Route 66 Film Festival
September 20, 2008 All five films play at independents Film Festival - September 19, 2008 Kivumvu: Basket Boy plays at Strasbourg International Film Festival
- September 19, 2008 All five films play at Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival
- September 15, 2008 BFC films get TV debut un USA
- September 5, 2008 BFC films play at Salento International Film Festival
August
- August 24, 2008 Bigger Plans and Kivumvu: Basket Boy play at London Short Film Showcase
- August 21, 2008 Bigger Plans plays at Washougal International Film Festival
- August 16, 2008 BFC filma win Best Student Film Series in Bayou City, Texas
- August 15, 2008BFC film screens on opening night at YoungCuts Film Festival
- August 11, 2008 Bigger Plans reviewed in FilmThreat magazine
- August 7-9 , 2008 Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival screens BFC films
July
- July 29, 2008 Woods Hole Film Festival screens BFC films
- July 20, 2008 BFC student wins 'Emerging Filmmaker Award' at TIFF (Australia)
- July 9-10, 2008 Long Island International Film Expo screens BFC films
- July 5, 2008 Flickerings Film Festival screens BFC films
June
- June 19-20, 2008 Planet Ant Film Festival screens BFC films in Austin, Texas
- June 16, 2008 BFC films screen through Salt Lake City Film Center
- June 10, 2008 Four BFC students arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah for film training
- June 7, 2008 Beverly Hills' Hollywood Black Film Festival screens BFC films
- June 6, 2008 Timbal Fest screen BFC films in Philadelphia
May
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May 21 , 2008 Connecticut Film Festival screens BFC films
- May 8, 2008 Radio Canada International airs interview with BFC co-founder Christopher Redmond
May 6, 2008 Carleton University invites BFC co-founder to give presentation
April
- Apr. 26, 2008 Fallbrook Film Festival premieres BFC films to U.S. audience
- Apr. 23, 2008 Rincon International Film Festival in Puerto Rico screens BFC films
Apr. 12, 2008 Vue D'Afrique Pan African Film Festival presents BFC films - Apr. 4, 2008 ReelWorld Film Festival provides Toronto premiere for BFC films
Apr. 2, 2008 Toronto Star "Ignored African nation grabs spotlight"
March
- Mar. 29, 2008 BFC project highlighted at Foundations festival in Montreal
Mar. 22, 2008 Dawson City International Short Film Festival screens BFC film
February
- Feb. 11, 2008 BFC photo book available to all supporters donating $75 or more
- Feb. 1, 2008 The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in Montreal invites BFC team to speak about project
January
- Jan. 25, 2008 CIDA gets a private screening of the BFC films
2007
December
- Dec. 13, 2007 Artmatters "Healing Rwanda and Burundi through Theatre and Film"
- Dec. 1, 2007 Montreal premiere of BFC films at NFB Cinematheque
- Dec. 1, 2007 Montreal Gazette “Films paint vivid picture of everyday Africa”
November
- Nov. 25, 2007 National Gallery of Canada screenes BFC films
- Nov. 15 , 2007 Forum Magazine “EXT. Streets of Bujumbura – DAY” (blog excerpts)
October
- Oct. 12, 2007 Centretown News “Canadians spread media literacy message in Burundi”
- Oct. 1 , 2007 FilmCAN, issue 11 “Conquering Kong” (blog excerpts)
September
- Sept. 22, 2007 The Charlatan “Carleton grad co-founds Burundi film school”
- Sept. 20, 2007 Rogers Television “daytime”
- Sept. 19, 2007 CTV News “CJOH Evening News”
- Sept. 19, 2007 BFC Benefit screening in Ottawa a huge success
- Sept. 10, 2007 The World Next Door "Five Short Films About Burundi"
August
- August 27, 2007 CBC radio “Ottawa filmmakers teach in Burundi”,
- Aug. 22, 2007 Ottawa Citizen “Lights, Camera, Action in Burundi”
June
- June 6, 2007 Ottawa Citizen “Burundi Film Centre”