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2025 Winners Press Release

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEVERLY HILLS FILM FESTIVAL® WRAPS WITHPROCLAMATION FROM MAYOR SHARONA NAZARIAN AT ANNUAL AWARDS GALA Notable Attendees for the six-day fest included Kevin Smith, Jesse Metcalfe, Eric […]

2024 Winners

The 24th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival® (BHFF) came to a close with the Gala Awards Ceremony at the iconic Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, May 5. “The Kindness Within,” […]

2023 WINNERS INTERNATIONAL BEVERLY HILLS FILM FESTIVAL®

Festival Director, Nino Simone, presents the Golden Palm Award to Bulgarian director Theodore Ushev at the 23rd Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival® / Photography by Billy Baque Bulgarian Director Theodore Ushev’s “Phi 1.618 ” Wins Golden […]

Saint in the Shadow of Bluebeard

20th Anniversary Screenplay Winner 1st Runner Up

Office Song

20th Anniversary Best Short Film Winner

Not Enough Time

20th Anniversary Best Editing Winner

Shores of a New Blood

Opioid epidemic evolves from outsourcing jobs

Opeka

20th Anniversary Golden Palm Winner

Bas Rutten

From UFC to Hollywood

Ziad Hamzeh

Going Strong

Frederico Lapenda: Get Inspired

Ready for Takeoff

Bob Saget’s Benjamin

Now on RedBox

Mike Feifer and Caia Coley

12 Pups of Christmas Coming Soon

Living Legend Award 2019

Image Copyright Source: Hollywood Reporter As the Beverly Hills Film Festival accepts submissions for its 20th anniversary edition, we cannot forget the memorable evening during which, we honored Mike Medavoy. As […]

Becoming Cary Grant

Let's Dim The Lights

Grown Ups

Gone Too Soon

It Simply Does Not Get Old

Shrimp Soup, Anyone?

2018 Winners Highlight

View the Winners

2018 BHFF Judges

Grand Jury

Adrift

A review of the 2018 film

Wonder

A review of the 2017 film

2018 Spotlight: Secrets?

Foundation

2018 Spotlight: Hope through Art

NOT The Last Butterfly

Women in the Biz

Women and Filmmaking...

2018 Jury President Reveal

One of our best 2018 reveals yet!

2018 Spotlight: Japan Drawing Near

Bad Poetry Tokyo

2018 Spotlight: Let’s Talk Human Trafficking

California, did you know?

2018 Spotlight: Tango Tango

TANGUITO ARGENTINO from Argentina

Submissions 2018

Guess what?

Get Noticed

Your story in your own words

BHFF 2017 Winners Highlight

The exceptional winners of the 2017 Beverly Hills Film Festival

2017 Kick Start

Just the perfect set of films to start this year's festival

Monster Guide

Refer to Your Nightmares for More Information

NASA’s Hidden Figures

A Feel Good Gender Praise Or a Bit More on Real Dignity?

Didn’t Match the Book

Love it? Well, Let's Await the Next One!

Warrior Princess Leia

Our golden prisoner is no more: rest in peace, Princess Leia. Carrie Fisher dies at 60.

Cozy Christmas Cage

Cozy and Cage? Here's to the modern day Scrooge!

Festival Alumnus Soars Again

Festival alumnus, Frederico Lapenda, produces yet another spectacular story starring, Nicolas Cage.

Regular Deadline Approaches

Don't miss our DEADLINE: November 15th! Find out how you can submit your film and screenplay for chance to win $10,000.00

The Birthday Girl

Sophia Loren Turns 82! Learn about the latest news on this beauty...

Gene Wilder’s Approach

Remembering the master of ridicule

Best Foreign Film Winner

Virgin Australia's Best of the Fest Program

2016 Golden Palm Winner

Emma's Song: an extraordinary story of reality

Young Prodigy, Anton Yelchin

Gone Too Soon... Meet one of the youngest award-winning talents at the Beverly Hills Film Festival

2016 Golden Palm Winner

IRREFUTABLE PROOF

Highlighting BHFF Audience Awards

The 2016 Beverly Hills Film Festival in the media again

New Details on Lennon’s Death

The Examiner Highlights BHFF Film

Secret Gone

Guess who's coming to dinner? Hear ye, hear ye! Mike Marino as Gala MC

Beyond Festival: Thompson

Flying Creativity

BHFF 2016 Presents: SHORTS

Welcome to Eccentricity! The 16th BHFF presents a fascinating collection of short films from all around the globe

BHFF Honors Jack Lucarelli

On Being Inspired: Meet the one and only Jack! He's the good cop you've always dreamed of being

BHFF 2016 Presents Documentary

Hidden Scandals

BHFF 2016 Presents Animation

April 9th @ 6:15

World Premier

Variety Highlights One of Our 2016 Films

MMA Film Merger

Frederico Lapenda: a continuing journey

Beyond Festival Spotlight

HAMZEH MYSTIQUE FILMS

Remembering Alan Rickman

1946-2016

Remembering Haskell Wexler

Famed American Cinematographer

The Ebenezer Syndrome

A Christmas Carol Twist

bhfilmfest in The Spotlight

Submissions are Now Open

Monsters Are Us

Vincent Price as the Horla

On Being Imaginative

The Marriage of Flaubert and Moore

Age of Technology

Following the journey of auditions and casting

Flying through Her Womanhood

Mirroring her inner strength, she stepped out of her social image

Quiet Love

Carol: The Official Trailer

UFC Champion-Red Carpet

We have a blast when Bas Rutten is on our red carpet

Take Five Nino Simone

Take Five chats with the BHFF president, Nino Simone

UFC Champion Attends Premier

Quinton Rampage Jackson watches Bad Guys

Remembering Phil Stern

A rare opportunity to celebrate the man who always remained behind the camera

2015 BHFF WINNERS

“State of Assyria” Wins 2015 BHFF Golden Palm Award

Friday Night Lights

BHFF 2015 Friday Night Lights

2014 BHFF Winners

“A Man Called God” Wins 2014 BHFF Golden Palm Award

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