Curtain Rises On Youth Film Festival
Tomorrow, Westporters will flock to beaches, ball games and the dump. Many others will head indoors. They’ll joyfully spend all day in darkened rooms, watching dozens of films made by teenagers. For 6...
View ArticleToday WYFF; Tomorrow The World
Saturday’s Westport Youth Film Festival featured dozens of entrants from around the country. Among the winners: 1 from our backyard. “Buck ‘Em Down” — filmed and edited by Staples juniors Michael...
View ArticleInspiring Teens To Tell Their Tales
Tracy Sugarman and Bill Buckley have spent their lives using film, words and illustrations to affect social change. Bill Buckley trains his camera on the past -- and the future Now in their 80s — but...
View ArticleTake A WYFF
Harvey Weinstein is big (in more ways than one). And Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Bette Davis, Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe are just a few of the boldface names who at one point called Westport home....
View ArticleWestport Bridges Film Gap
Sometimes a big event changes someone’s life. For 2 Bridgeport teenagers it was attending Sundance last year, meeting directors and actors, and returning home with confidence that they too can make...
View ArticleTake A WYFF
The first thing you should know about this Saturday’s (May 14) Westport Youth Film Festival is that it’s in Fairfield. The 2nd is that the day-long schedule — filled with local and international films,...
View ArticleWYFF To BYFF?
It’s still called the Westport Youth Film Festival. But the 9th edition this spring will take place at the Bijou Theatre in downtown Bridgeport. The event started out in Westport, at Toquet Hall and...
View ArticleThe Beatles Visit Westport
More than 45 years after it supposedly happened, whether the Beatles actually visited Murray the K* at his Bluewater Hill home is up for debate. But no one can deny that without Westporter Al Brodax,...
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