September and October at

The Roasted Granola Café

Arlington Heights: 1346 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02476

AIFF has partnered with The Roasted Granola Café for some fun fall events beginning with the AIFF Poster Exhibition that will be on display in the Café during the month of September. Follow the progression of the submissions from 2010 when the competition was offered to high school students and later evolved to college student submissions.

Drop by the Café, have a coffee, and enjoy the exhibition that includes the 2021 winner!

SEPTEMBER 11th @ 7PM ~ Music & Film

7:00 PM ~ Music by Todd Brunel, clarinetist, and sax player

7:30 PM ~ Short Films

SANCTUARY | Director L-J ShenFilerman | Nar | 9 MIN | World Premiere

Winner of 2020 AIFF Best of Festival ~ High School Category

The film follows the Arlington mandate stay-at-home order. A young man’s criminal past catches up to him and exposes him to unforeseen danger.

Jury Statement: “Technically not a script, but each person interviewed gets their point across clearly and the film is amazingly easy to follow. Gives that perfectly tense, horror-movie feeling. Incredibly well-mixed, and the background music is a perfect fit. 

Q&A following the screening with L-J ShenFilerman.

COVID-19 SHORTS ~ Program curated by

Unified Filmmakers Festival 2021

AIFF is excited to announce a new partnership with Unified Filmmakers based in Munich, Germany. We are working together to screen films made about the COVID-19 pandemic. Unified Filmmakers Festival has given filmmakers from around the world an opportunity to tell their personal stories about this extraordinary time. Festival Director and Founder Floryan Deyle have created a network of unified creators that intend to make us think about who we are, where we come from, and where we want to go! - https://www.unifiedfilmmakers.com/

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OCTOBER 2ND

Program to be announced

Todd H. Brunel 

Todd H. Brunel Todd is a clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator who currently works in the Arlington Public Schools as an instrumental music teacher. He is a professor of clarinet and saxophone at Middlesex Community College and also affiliated with the Powers Music School in Belmont where he serves as the Jazz improvisation director summer faculty for MOTH, clarinet, and saxophone teacher from 2001-2018, chamber music coach, and outreach concert performing artist. Previously Todd was the Director of Music at the Heronfield Academy in Hampton Falls, NH, on the clarinet and saxophone faculty as an artist at Wheaton College, and worked on The American Experience: American Oz and The Battle of Chosin, Paul Robeson Here I stand, soundtrack musician, clarinet, bass clarinet at WGBH Boston. A sampling of Todd’s performances includes The Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra, Spazio Teatro NO’HMA (Milan, Italy), with Eric Hofbauer Quintet in Brussels, at Clark University with The Eric Hofbauer Quintet and Sonic Explorers, Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music, Greater Boston Stage Company, Reagle Theater, Music At Eden’s Edge, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra Salon Series Concerts, and Musaner, Music of Armenia Re-imagined. Todd is a graduate of Brooklyn College Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory, and pursued additional graduate studies at Boston University and the Longy School of Music. You can learn more about Todd and listen to his music at www.clarinetconspiracy.com - www.clarinetconspiracy.com