Big Apple Film Festival

big apple film festival takes place in the heart of the greatest city in the world. baff, named one of moviemaker magazine's top "25 film festivals worth the entry fee", top "25 coolest film festivals", and cbs new york's "5 best events in new york", is dedicated to showcasing and promoting the highest quality films from the independent film community. our goal is to celebrate the great city of new york through the exhibition of innovative and purposeful filmmaking. the festival offers a variety of film screenings and special new york city premieres. grand prize winners of our short screenplay competition will have their script produced into a short film to premiere at the big apple film festival! alumni films include academy award and golden globe nominees, sag award winners and nominees, as well as films released by hbo, showtime, ifc, netflix, amazon, itunes and more... previous honorary guests and award recipients jesse eisenberg, cuba gooding jr., morgan spurlock, alan cummi