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Liff or LIFF may refer to: People with the family name * Biff Liff (1919-2015), Tony Award-winning American Broadway manager and producer. * Vincent Liff (1915-2003), American film director from West Hartford, Connecticut. Other * Liff, Angus, village in Scotland *''The Meaning of Liff'', a book by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd LIFF as abbreviation * Ladakh International Film Festival, India * Layered Image File Format * Leeds International Film Festival, West Yorkshire, England * Leiden International Film Festival, The Netherlands * Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia * London Independent Film Festival The London Independent Film Festival is a British film festival that takes place annually in April. It was founded by Erich Schultz and specialises in low-budget independent films. It offers a screenplay competition and distribution fair. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biff Liff
Samuel "Biff" Liff (April 14, 1919 – August 10, 2015) was an American Broadway stage manager and producer. Early life Samuel Liff was born on April 14, 1919, in Boston, Massachusetts.James BarronBiff Liff, Broadway Manager and Powerhouse Agent, Dies at 96 ''The New York Times'', August 13, 2015Gordon CoxBroadway Dims Lights Tonight for Agent Biff Liff ''Variety'', August 14, 2015 His father, Morris Liff, was a restaurateur. His mother was Rose Liff. He was nicknamed 'Biff' as a child, and kept the nickname throughout his life. Liff graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor's degree in Theater in 1939. During World War II, he served as a captain in the United States Army in Chicago. Career Liff started his career on Broadway as a stage manager, working on '' Along Fifth Avenue'' from January to June 1949. That same year, he was also the stage manager of '' Admiral Broadway Revue'', which was broadcast on television, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. He then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Liff
Vincent Liff (c. 1951–2003) was an American casting director of Broadway musicals and plays. According to ''NPR'', he "changed the face of Broadway by bringing more children, minorities and foreigners to the stage." Early life Vincent Liff was born circa 1951.Jesse McKinleyVincent Liff, 52, Casting Director for Many Broadway Hits ''The New York Times'', February 27, 2003Murray HorwitzRemembering Vincent Liff ''NPR'', February 28, 2003 His uncle Biff Liff, was a Broadway manager and producer.Robert HoflerVincent Liff ''Variety'', February 25, 2003 Career Liff was a casting director. In the 1970s, he met Geoffrey Johnson through his uncle. Together, they founded Liff-Johnson, a casting agency. Their first casting job was for ''The Wiz'', a 1975 musical on Broadway. They went on to cast two more Broadway musicals: '' Ain't Misbehavin''' in 1978, and ''Dreamgirls'' in 1981. Additionally, they cast the following plays: '' Night and Day'', ''Indiscretions'', ''The Elephant Man'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Hartford, Connecticut
West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, west of downtown Hartford. The population was 64,083 at the 2020 census. The town's popular downtown area is colloquially known as "West Hartford Center," or simply "The Center," and is centered on Farmington Avenue and South/North Main Street. West Hartford Center has been the community's main hub since the late 17th century. Incorporated as a town in 1854, West Hartford was previously a parish of Hartford, founded in 1672. Among the southernmost of the communities in the Hartford-Springfield Knowledge Corridor metropolitan region, West Hartford is home to University of Hartford and the University of Saint Joseph. West Hartford is home to regular events which draw large crowds from neighboring towns, including the Elizabeth Park Concert Series. The town also hosts the annual Celebrate West Hartford event, which includes fairground rides, food vendors, and stalls by local businesses. History According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liff, Angus
Liff is a village in Angus, Scotland, situated 4.5 miles west-north-west of Dundee on a south-facing slope two miles north of the River Tay. It had a population of 568 in 2011. Surrounded by farmland, it has been described as 'haunted by wood pigeons and the scent of wild garlic' and having a 'wonderful view over the firth f Tay. Half a mile to the east lies the site of the former Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, now given over to private housing. Further east lie Camperdown House and Park. Half a mile to the south is House of Gray, a large eighteenth-century mansion house in the neoclassical style, currently standing empty. The village contains twelve listed buildings, with others nearby. For several centuries the name Liff denoted a large area, not a village. It comprised the parish of Liff together with its united parishes of Benvie, Invergowrie, Logie, and Lochee, and so included substantial parts of the city of Dundee. The village around the church was known as Kirkton of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Meaning Of Liff
''The Meaning of Liff'' (UK Edition: , US Edition: ) is a humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in the United Kingdom in 1983 and the United States in 1984. Content The book is a "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet".Gartner, Michael (15 March 1987)Words ''Newsday'' Rather than inventing new words, Adams and Lloyd picked a number of existing place-names and assigned interesting meanings to them, meanings that can be regarded as on the verge of social existence and ready to become recognisable entities. All the words listed are toponyms and describe common feelings and objects for which there is no current English word. Examples are ''Shoeburyness'' ("The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat that is still warm from somebody else's bottom") and ''Plymouth'' ("To relate an amusing story to someone without remembering that it was they who told it to you in the first place"). T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladakh International Film Festival
The Ladakh International Film Festival (LIFF) is an international film festival that is held annually in Ladakh, India. Inaugurated in 2012, it is the first international film festival to be held in Ladakh. It is held in the Himalayan town of Leh, the largest town in Ladakh, at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet (3350 metres), making it the highest-altitude film festival in the world. A major theme of the festival is wildlife conservation. In partnership with the Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust, the festival offers the Snow Leopard Trophy for the most educational or inspiring film about an endangered species. The festival was organized by Kerala-based filmmakeMelwyn WilliamsChirayath and his business associate Meghna Dubey, partners at Monasse Films. 2012 festival The first annual LIFF was held on 15–17 June 2012. It was attended by Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of the then-state of Jammu and Kashmir. The festival chair was film director Shyam Benegal, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layered Image File Format
Layered Image File Format (LIFF) is a file format used in the Openlab suite for microscope image processing. It is a proprietary format, but has an open, extensible form analogous to TIFF. It was specifically designed to contain a large number of high resolution images, and also all of the meta data generated by analysis of such images. Apart from being an acronym, the name LIFF was chosen to honour Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's ''The Meaning of Liff ''The Meaning of Liff'' (UK Edition: , US Edition: ) is a humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in the United Kingdom in 1983 and the United States in 1984. Content The book is a " ...'', which was in turn named after Liff, a town in Scotland. Graphics file formats {{graphics-software-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds International Film Festival
The Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) is the largest film festival in England outside London. Founded in 1987, it is held in November at various venues throughout Leeds, West Yorkshire. In 2015, the festival welcomed over 40,000 visitors and showed over 300 films from around the world, shorts and features, both commercial and independent. LIFF features five programme sections: Official Selection, Retrospective, Cinema Versa, Fanomenon and Short Film City. LIFF is a qualifying film festival for the Academy Awards and the winning films in Short Film City's Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition and World Animation Award may thus be eligible for the academy's Short Film Awards. The festival's British Short Film Competition is BAFTA qualifying. The festival is supported by Leeds City Council and the festival office is based in Leeds Town Hall, together with Leeds Young Film Festival (LYFF) (formerly Leeds Children & Young People's Film Festival (LCYPFF)). L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leiden International Film Festival
The Leiden International Film Festival (LIFF) is a film festival based in the Netherlands. The Leiden International Film Festival was founded in 2006 by Alexander Mouret, Michaël Roumen, Michel Zorge, Wouter de Bres and Job Zeestraten. The festival's main competition is American Indie Competition LIFF which screens films from American filmmakers. Program The festival's programming consists of many different kinds of fiction films, including both mainstream and arthouse films. During the festival, films are not only screened in cinemas but special screenings are also hosted at venues like museums, an old factory, a historic church and an observatory. American Independent Cinema and the American Indie Competition Although the festival is based in Leiden, it is an international film festival which has focused on American independent cinema, resulting in the American Indie Competition. The American Indie Competition is the festival's main competition, focusing entirely on American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubljana International Film Festival
The Ljubljana International Film Festival (also known as LIFFe) is an international film festival established in 1990 and held annually in Ljubljana, Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an .... Apart from screenings of Slovenian films, it also regularly features renowned authors' film retrospectives, international independent film programmes and a short films competition. Awards Awards presented at the most recent 2007 edition were as follows: * The Kingfisher Award for best debut or second film by up-and-coming directors * The Golden Reel Award ''(Audience Award)'' for best film overall, as voted by audiences * The FIPRESCI Award, given by an international film critics' jury * The Amnesty International Slovenia Award for best film that deals with a theme related t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
