More than 20 directors or producers, and 15 members of the international Press corps, will attend the eighth Bermuda International Film Festival from March 18-24.

The festival?s Filmmaker in Focus, Michael Winterbottom, will attend ? he has four films in the festival ? as will Franny Armstrong (?McLibel?), Ganapathy Bharatbala (?Hari Om?), Anja Baron (?The Last of the First?), Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani (?The Devil?s Miner?), Peter Raymont (?Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire?), Henry Rubin and Dana Shapiro (?Murderball?), Malcolm Fraser and Stacey DeWolfe (?Everything?s Coming My Way?), Jason Gileno (?The Chiefs?), and Milos Jovanovic (?Memo?).

Producers Letebele Masemola-Jones (?A South African Love Story ? Walter and Albertina Sisulu?) and Aleksandra Jovanovic (?Memo?) will also attend, as will actress Hani Furstenberg (?Campfire?), narrator Kalsang Dolma (?What Remains of Us?), Bermuda-born singer Gordon Thomas (the subject of the film ?Everything?s Coming My Way?), film consultant Anton Retel Helmrich (?Shape of the Moon?) and Orli Fridman, a counsellor at the Seeds Peace Camp which is the subject of the film, ?Seeds?.

Short film directors Sigal Mordechai (?America?) and Bryan Single (?Shadows of the Sun?) will be in Bermuda, as will short film producer Galit Mordechai (?America?). Peter Rainer of National Public Radio, Jennifer Wood of MovieMaker Magazine, Liza Bear of indieWIRE, Peter Bowen of Filmmaker Magazine, Tim Wassberg of Inside Reel, Rachel Vigeon and Antony McGrath of Showbiz Networks, Emmanuel Itier of Book LA, Steven Prokopy of Ain?t It Cool News, Paige Taylor of Film Festival Today and Claire Varney of Canal Plus will all make the trip to Bermuda.

Four members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, presenters of the annual Golden Globe Awards, will also make the trip. They are Marlene von Arx, Claudia Laffranchi, Elisa Leonelli and Theo Kingma. Hollywood-based film journalist David Poland (www.thehotbutton.com and www.moviecitynews.com), a member of BIFF?s International Advisory Board, will also attend.

?Our visiting filmmakers enhance the filmgoing experience for everyone,? says festival director Aideen Ratteray Pryse.

?One of our trademarks as a festival is the access that our filmgoers have to our visiting filmmakers, both via the question and answer sessions after film screenings and also at the great variety of social events that we present.

?We are also looking forward to the exposure that our visitors in the Press will bring to the festival and, just as importantly, the Island as a whole.?