OPENING NIGHT

OPENING NIGHT
Sponsored by Beacon Bank

5:00-7:00PM Taste of the BIFF – cocktails and dinner-by-the-bite by area restaurants and caterers under the BIFF Tent behind Town Hall.
(Open to Sponsors, Filmmakers, All-Inclusive and Opening Night passholders)

7:00PM Opening Night presentation of STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.

American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author Amy Goodman in attendance for Q&A with BIFF board member, Mary Mott.

Followed by DJ Dance Party featuring DJ Sören at The Indigo Room!

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STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE!
2025 | 104 min. | US

Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from war zones and the Democracy Now! newsroom. In Steal This Story, Please!, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism’s power – and peril – in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth.

Directors // Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Cast // Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman in Attendance