Buffalo Dreams to Honor Jerry Stoeffhaas This Sunday

Buffalo Dreams to Honor Jerry Stoeffhaas This Sunday

Aug 17, 2022

Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film will honor Jerry Stoeffhaas with its Local Service Award, in recognition of his significant contributions to the Western New York film industry. Past recipients include Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner Tim Clark, Buffalo Niagara Film Office Director of Operations Rich Wall, City of Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, New York State Film Commissioner Pat Kaufman, and WBBZ TV station manager/Off Beat Cinema producer John Di Sciullo. Buffalo Dreams’ ninth season runs August 19th – 25th at Dipson Theaters’ Eastern Hills Cinema, and Stoeffaas will receive his award at the Dreamer Awards presentation on Sunday the 21st.

Stoeffhaas served as the Deputy Director of the New York State Governor’s Office for Motion Picture & Television Development for over 20 years before retiring last year, working with film and TV productions across the state and helping launch the state’s highly successful Film Production Tax Credits, and continues to serve as Senior Advisor. Prior to that he was the founder and Director of the Rochester/Finger Lakes Film and Video Office, the first dedicated film office in Upstate New York.

With his creative partner Jeff Ureles, Stoeffhaas co-wrote, produced and directed the feature film Cheap Shots, filmed in Batavia, which had a limited US theatrical run via Hemdale and played at festivals around the world, including Sundance, London, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. After receiving his MFA in Film from Syracuse University he worked as an independent Location Manager covering Central and Western New York.

Stoeffhaas is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East since 1980 and has taught screenwriting, film production and criticism at various Upstate institutions including Syracuse University, Writers & Books and Rochester Institute of Technology.

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G.O.D. Directed by and Starring Addison Henderson

G.O.D. Directed by and Starring Addison Henderson

Aug 1, 2022


Filmed entirely in Western New York in the Spring of 2019, Addison Henderson’s “G.O.D.” (Givers of Death) is in theatres now including the North Park Theatre, 1428 Hertel Avenue in North Buffalo.  It is also available streaming on Apple TV.

“G.O.D.” (Givers of Death) is an apocalyptic sci-fi tale of redemption. It is the journey of a man, a detective, and an entire city’s quest for peace. The man seeks peace through atonement, the detective through revenge and the city through resolution. The film explores whether peace can be attained when one exists in constant chaos – be it in reality, or in the mind. Henderson stars in and directs “G.O.D.” along with a cast that features Louis Lombardi, J.J. Alfieri, Jonathan Sterritt, Jason Delane and others.

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Buffalo Dreams Returns August 19th-25th at Dipson Eastern Hills Cinema

Buffalo Dreams Returns August 19th-25th at Dipson Eastern Hills Cinema

Jul 26, 2022

Buffalo, New York – Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival announces its first wave of feature film premieres screening during its ninth season, August 19th – 25th at Dipson Theatres’ Eastern Hills Cinema in Williamsville. Buffalo Dreams is a seven-day celebration of independently produced action, animation, comedy, horror, and science fiction films from around the world. Submissions are open via FilmFreeway.com until July 24th.

Chicken Ranch

Among the initial round of Official Selections is the highly anticipated New York Premiere of Bashira, a stunning “J-horror” film directed by special visual effects artist Nickson Fong at various Buffalo locations including the Buffalo Filmworks soundstage. Chicken Ranch, an offbeat comedy from Oklahoma City writer-director-actor Cate Jones, will also have its New York Premiere at the fest. Jones first came to the attention of Buffalo Dreams when she played Priscilla Presley in Mickey Reece’s Alien, and last year made a splash with her directorial debut, She’s the Eldest.

Galaxy Warriors

Exclusive World Premieres include Galaxy Warriors, Canadian filmmaker Brett Kelly’s loving homage to campy sci-fi flicks from the 1980s; Mask of the Devil, UK director Richard Rowntree’s retro horror film about supernatural mayhem on the set of a porn film; and Pact of Vengeance, an action film from Pennsylvania filmmaker Len Kabasinski, starring Leo Fong and Jon Mikl Thor.

Guns of Eden

Buffalo Dreams will host the World Premieres of two non-competition features: festival director Gregory Lamberson’s Guns of Eden, an action movie in the vein of First Blood, filmed in and around Buffalo and starring Alexandra Faye Sadeghian and Lynn Lowry; and Showdown in Yesteryear, a fantasy western starring Jeff Grennell as a contemporary ranch hand who travels through time to the wild west. Showdown was produced by Tim O’Hearn, directed by Aaron Bratcher, and co-stars Vernon Wells and Debra Lamb.

Lamberson and festival co-founder Chris Scioli will present the Lois Weber Award, named after the iconic silent era director, to Anne-Marie Frigon from Ottawa, Canada for her contributions to the medium. Frigon produced Galaxy Warriors, as well as 20 other features and many shorts, and has worked in numerous areas of production.

Western New Yorker Terry Kimmel, president of Buffalo Movie-Video Makers, will receive the festival’s Local Hero Award for his longtime contributions to the Buffalo film community. BMVM is the oldest film club in the country.

Additional Special Awards and Official Selections, including shorts and yet to be produced screenplays, will be announced July 25th. Buffalo Dreams only holds in-person screenings, frequently with filmmaker Q&As.

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BEHIND THE CAMERA: Producer Justin Martell

BEHIND THE CAMERA: Producer Justin Martell

Mar 2, 2022


Cindy Abbott Letro interviews producer Justin Martell who is currently in Buffalo producing his latest feature the paranormal thriller “Let It Lie” which will be available this fall on the Shutter streaming service.  This is the third feature Justin has brought to Western NY along side “The Alcoholist” and “Return to the Class of Nukem’ High” directed by Lloyd Kaufman.

Guillermo del Toro Loves Buffalo

Guillermo del Toro Loves Buffalo

Dec 22, 2021

In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment‘s senior correspondent Kevin Polowy upon the release of “Nightmare Alley” when asked “What makes Buffalo your new favorite city to film in?” award winning director Guillermo del Toro said this:

“First of all, the life in Buffalo is fantastic in terms of the cultural scene. The food scene is fantastic. Two things that are very important for me,” del Toro says. “You cannot find a better film office in the world. And it’s basically a sampler of every style of architecture in the 20th century. You want to set it in the 1900s, the 1800s even… You want [art] deco. You want classical architecture from 1940. You get everything. It’s effortless to make a period picture there.”

The complete Yahoo Entertainment coverage on “Nightmare Alley” can coverage can be found here: