"When I was just a baby, my mama told me, 'son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns'...but I'm stuck in Folsom Prison, and time keeps draggin' on..." - Johnny Cash, military veteran - US Air Force

Whatever your musical tastes may be, one thing's for sure:

The "Man in Black" knew what it was like to be a man in uniform.

Military, civilian, and those audience members who are someone in-between agree that K. Lorrel Manning's Happy New Year (2011) will make you want to sing Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" at the top of your lungs.

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You've heard of the WWF, JFK, and most likely WTF.

But are you hip to the WFJ?

The WFJ stands for the Wrestling for Jesus organization, a group of men who, quite literally, wrestle for Jesus.

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In his magnum opus Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen shares a famous anecdote, one which I will now blatantly steal, twist, and re-shape into a shield to protect myself against any impending urges from readers to shoot the messenger:

"There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible. 'The other one says, 'Yeah, I know; and such small portions.'"

In the case of this blog, the BIFF, and its close associates and attendees, this famous analogy mirrors the multiple complaints overheard about the barbecue/beer truck parked outside of the festival venue.

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A Quirk of Fate, the curiously clumsy title of Marco J. Reidl's " 45 minute "short," led me to think that the German language film's message might be lost in translation.

To my delight, a cinephile's propensity towards schadenfreude was kept at bay. The film is exactly what it claims to be: a quirky twist of fate, or rather, fate-th-ful, homage to a hodgepodge of the emotionally gripping, sentimentally-fueled, and visually sumptuous films of the classic Hollywood studio system. Even the filmmaker's production company "MJM," is a direct nod to the leading lion of classic film studios, MGM.

Specifically, this film is an homage to the films made by European – and specifically the German-language - filmmakers who worked for the Hollywood studio system as a result of talent poaching across Europe at the dawn of the Second World War.

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Once again a Festival highlight is the Screenwriter's Table Read with a troupe of local actors, led by LCW's own Jeff Evans and MC'd by Bruce Doneff, read short scenes from six scripts. All the writers were in the house and the house was pretty full.

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The Beaufort International Film Fest is up and running at the University of South Carolina Beaufort downtown campus. Fandango Productions South has transformed the Center for the Arts into a old style movie house complete with lounge and concessions.

Among the highlights today the Italian film "The Duck Hunter" a terrific slate of short and student films and L.A. based filmmaker Felix Martiz' debut feature, "Santiago."

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