BIFF kicks off the year with successful Fiesta Hispana fundraiser
Founder and Executive Director of BIFF, Leslie Vanderpool gives welcome remarks and thanks all those that sponsor and support BIFF
The Bahamas Weekly News Team attended Fiesta Hispana on August 22nd at the Balmoral Club. This event was a fundraiser to kick off the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) 2009, which will be held in December from the 10th to the 17th in Nassau.
The venue was nothing short of "wow" at the The Balmoral Club, an eighteen-room, two story mansion with its spacious halls and elegant, floating, spiral staircase, and indoor or outdoor areas.
Rocio Jurado in one of her dramatic stage performances
The Spanish diva died at her home in La Moraleja in Madrid at 5,15 this morning. She was 61. Her family were at her side as she passed away.
She has now been taken to the Centro Cultural de la Villa, in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid where the public will be able to pay their respects until 8pm this evening.
Founder and Executive Director of BIFF, Leslie Vanderpool gives welcome remarks and thanks all those that sponsor and support BIFF 