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Ridgefield Independent Film Festival Selects 30 Films of Resilience for 2021 Festival, October 8-10

Focus on Local Filmmakers

With a focus on local filmmakers, RIFF has selected 30 films to screen in its 2021 Festival October 8-10 in Ridgefield, CT. Among these local filmmakers are: Ellie Gravitte and Joanna James of Ridgefield, CT; Joanne Hudson, Kate Davis and David Heilbroner of Redding, CT; Celestina Beakes of Yorktown Heights, NY; and Jacob Rodier of Fairfield, CT.


Click here for list of selected films

“The theme running through all of the films we chose this year is one of resilience, and we wanted to showcase the resilience of local filmmakers,” states Executive Director, Geoffrey Morris.

Along with films from New York City, Los Angeles, The UK, Canada, Austria, Mexico and Iran, RIFF’s highly curated 2021 festival has a local flavor this year.


“The theme running through all of the films we chose this year is one of resilience, and we wanted to showcase the resilience of local filmmakers,” states Executive Director, Geoffrey Morris.


A highlight of the festival will be Ridgefield filmmaker Joanna James’ “A Fine Line” a documentary feature that explores why less than 7 percent of head chefs/restaurant owners are women, when traditionally women have influenced the greatest male chefs in the kitchen.


Another highlight will be the Saturday Night Marquee film at The Ridgefield Theatre Barn, “How To Stop A Recurring Dream” in which a family’s older daughter, faced with a custody split, kidnaps her hostile younger sister to embark on a journey to reconnect before they part.


Friday’s Psych Night, another Theatre Barn offering that has proved popular in the past, will be an entertaining feast of shorts exploring the bizarre, the creepy, the fun and fantastic.


Saturday afternoon at both the Ridgefield Library and Ridgefield Theatre Barn will offer a variety of films centering on resilience such as “Last Call” a documentary about Queens New York bar-owners and workers fighting to stay afloat during Covid. As well as take us on some trips around the world to the most uninhabitable place on Earth with “After Antarctica”; to Iran with “Red Lipstick” the tale of a woman deciding whether or not to marry; to Austria with “Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT” an opera about climate change, as sung by the earth; and beyond this world with “Planet b234” which explores Latino masculinity and fatherhood.


Sunday wraps up at the Theatre Barn with “R.I.P. T Shirts”, the latest film from Kate Davis and David Heilbroner who brought us “Say Her Name” the Sandra Bland story in 2018; and “Authenticity” a delightful musical for and about teenagers dealing with cyber bullying, at The Ridgefield Library.


Please join us: in person or online. October 8-10, 2021 in the town where we live, Ridgefield, CT, indie since 1777.

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