First off, apologies for the delay on updates via Fest21... Its been a busy few years and running a festival as a one-man-army is no easy task! Now though, heading into our 4th year, I'm happy to announce that we are bigger and better with more to offer at the fantastic underground festival - the Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival. Kicking off in Sept from the 7th - 9th, our 4th year see's us settle in the beautiful Strand Cinema of East Belfast. Northern Irelands oldest cinema and ho...

Hi guys, the first deadline is fast approaching for the second annual Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival... May 15th is the first, with June 30th being the final!! So get those submissions in fast, because we want to find some incredible pictures for this years show!   On top of that, our new site has just kicked off at http://theyfiff.webs.com/ so jump on over there and check things out for news on last years events, and whats coming this year...   ...

Hi folks, just a quick reminder that our first deadline for entries is MAY 15th 2010... With the final being JUNE 30th 2010.   For more information please see the submission and guidelines page in our blog section at our website below...   www.theyfiff.ning.com   Any questions, please email us at - [email protected]   George ...

Hi folks, sorry its been a while since we last updated you but things have been busier than ever in the land of Yellow... With 4 feature films planned for the year ahead, the first starting this month, and a brand new edit and Directors Cut of BOTB in October; we have the official launch of the Yellow Fever DVD label on April 5th with our own awesome second film, The Knackery which will be available in stores across the UK and Ireland, and is available to pre-order now online via the lin...

This is the first promo video I threw together for our new feature film - The Knackery. Made in just under 5 weeks (shot and produced) with a budget of around £100 - £200 pounds. It premiered at the YFIFF 2009 to a great reception and has already got people talking around the world... Enjoy!! George   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU6LV0XRKHA ...

Hi Folks,   the Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival owes a great deal of thanks to the Freak Show Film Festival in Orlando for its inspiration in pushing me forward with my creation. We attended the Freak Show last year with our first feature film - BATTLE OF THE BONE - and won the Audience Choice Award which was a fantastic achievement! Now, the Freak Show 2009 is back and our latest feature - THE KNACKERY - has been selected to play!! The genius thing is that its scree...

Somebody to Love wins 'Best Short Film' at Yellow Fever Film Festival!       Hey Everyone, It's been far too long since I've done an entry. So I'm pleased to say I have a new entry and something worth writing about too! Somebody to Love recently won 'Best Short Film' at the Yellow Fever Film Festival! The festival was organised by George Clarke a man very much after my own heart. There were some great films shown so it was an honour to be ch...

AWARD WINNERS OF YFIFF 2009 We had a great selection of films for the first annual YFIFF which then brought about the challenge of trying to pick winners for our award categories... And they all say my job is easy! Assisted by my special guest from Hong Kong - Mike Leeder - the following awards went to: BEST DIRECTOR Winner: Wyatt Weed for Shadowland http://www.piratepictures.net/ BEST FILM Winner: Situations Vacant http://www.parkfilms.ie/ BEST SHORT FILM Winn...

Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival Director George Clarke on setting up Belfast's latest film festival. In the beginning... I initially thought of throwing my own film festival way back when we began filming the award winning Battle Of The Bone. At that time we thought we could take on the world (and, well, I guess we still do). So when myself and project manager Graeme Livingstone took Battle Of The Bone to the Freak Show Film Festival in Orlando in...

Below is the link to the 2009 Yellow Fever Independent Film Festivals special guest, Mike Leeder, who writes and edits the global Impact Magazine. On his blog at alivenotdead.com he also left some kind words on his experience at the first annual YFIFF...   http://www.alivenotdead.com/mikeleeder/Yellow-Fever-Independent-Film-Festival-profile-750114.html   Thanks Mike, from myself and team!!   George ...

Belfast’s First Annual Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival The first annual Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival kicked off this weekend at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast. Despite its brief duration of a mere two days (22nd-23rd) the festival managed to cram in an impressive array of film screenings, workshops, Q&A sessions with filmmakers and a whole host of other exclusive events that had film fans positively foaming at the mouth. Whilst numbers were quite modest, they certai...