Festival Expands to 11 Cinemas Across The UK
The Film Festival Guild is proud to announce the expansion of the British Independent Film Festival. Now in its 4th year, the festival promises to be bigger and better than ever.
The British Independent Film Festival will be taking place at The Malvern Theatre, Worcestershire on Saturday 18th May.
This year’s selection of films promises to be the best yet, and includes a number of highly talented directors and actors, including Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander and Anne-Marie Duff.
The British Independent Film Festival will also take place in the following cinemas:
Cameo Picture House, Edinburgh
Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich, Essex
The Gulbenkian, Canterbury, Kent
Helmsley Arts Centre, The Old Meeting House, Yorkshire
The Kinema In The Woods, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire
Malvern Theatres, Malvern, Worcestershire
The Savoy Cinema, Worksop, Nottinghamshire
The Luxe Cinema, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
The Princess Theatre, Hunstanton, Norfolk
The Tricycle Theatre, London
The Empire Cinema, Leicester Sq, London
With an average attendance rate of over 90% at all our screenings in 2012, this next festival is set to be even bigger, giving film makers more exposure, more reviews and more excitement for their films, whilst film lovers will get to see the ‘next big thing’ first!
Tickets will be available soon through both the Film Festival Guild website and The Malvern Theatre website.
More information and a full list of entries are available at www.filmfestivalguild.com
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Side By Side At Borderlines
Today was a beautiful, if a little chilly, day to have off from work and spend it in Hereford. I took the journey over to visit the Borderlines Film Festival, which is running its 11th year from 1st to 17th March. With nearly 90 films in over 100 venues throughout Herefordshire and Shropshire, Borderlines has to be one of the largest and interesting rural film festivals in the country.
I’ve been wanting to visit Borderlines and I’m so pleased I did. I went to the Hereford Courtyard and watching the screening of Side By Side, a documentary discussing the change in the film-making medium from film to digital. It’s presented By Keanu Reeves and he interviews the likes of Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Lars Von Trier, Joel Schumacher, David Lynch and many more and many unheard voices of cinematographers (directors of photography) like John Mathieson. He also explains the processes of capturing an image on film and digital and how those images are collected, developed, edited, colour graded and ultimately presented on the cinema screen. It’s interesting because you hear Nolan say film cannot be replaced and you believe him because he’s Nolan and then you hear George Lucas say the opposite and you believe him because it’s Lucas. I’m not a big fan of Keanu as an actor but he has cleverly captured the history and heritage of film and carefully presented the struggle as digital begins to replace film. It’s a well balanced documentary and what is really evident is how much the film-makers care about their craft and showing it in the best possible light. They talk about specific cameras and talk about how colour grading has evolved, fascinating stuff.
Watching the film at the Courtyard as a part of Borderlines was good too. The venue is really the central hub of activity for the film festival, where many people come to meet and watch and participate, according to Jo Comino, who is the marketing / press officer and who kindly met up with me afterwards. She said that they present films in lots of village halls and enjoy good attendance, even with foreign language films. This year, they are trying out capturing comments from audiences written out and tweeting them, called Analogue Tweets, which is a terrific idea for those who aren’t bothered with social networking.
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Flatpack Festival 2013
The Flatpack Festival returns to Birmingham next spring (21-31 March 2013), and once again we are on the hunt for brilliant new short films. Submissions should be:
- under 20 minutes long
- produced since January 2011
- fully cleared, including any music rights
Also bear in mind that the programme has an emphasis on animation, music, experimental work, handmade oddities, and that kind of thing. For the first time this year we are introducing a competitive element to the short film programme, and the entry fee for each film is £10 via Paypal. You’ll be taken automatically to the payment page once you fill out the form and submit.
Entries can come in the form of a DVD, or a viewing link. The address for mailing DVDs is: Flatpack Festival / Short Film Programme / Unit 118, Custard Factory / Gibb St / Birmingham B9 4AA.
Deadline for all submissions is 5pm on Monday 14th January 2013.
worcsff Official PR: Tenbury Wells Film Roadshow
Location : Regal Cinema
Date : 20th October 2012
Time : 10:00 – 16:30
Since May 2012 we’ve been running road shows over the county. We started in Worcester, we’ve been to Redditch, Kidderminster and Bromsgrove and now we’re off to our final road show destination the mighty Tenbury Wells!
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BrindleyPlace Film Festival Brings Open Air Film To Birmingham
Film lovers will get the chance to enjoy some of their favourite films whilst basking in the promised Birmingham sunshine at Brindleyplace’s first outdoor film festival.
Organised in partnership with Cineworld on Broad Street, the two week film festival will take place in Central Square at Brindleyplace from August 13 to 28, and will be open to employees of businesses based at Brindleyplace, along with the general public.
Boasting a theme of ‘childhood favourites’, the Brindleyplace Film Festival will showcase 20 films (all certificate PG or below) with evening films being screened at 6pm from Monday to Friday. There will be two showings, one at 11am and the other at 2pm, on Saturday and Sunday.
Kate Fittall, destination marketing manager, GVA, said: “This is the first time that visitors, tenants and the general public in Birmingham will be able to come together at Brindleyplace to enjoy some brilliant films in the open air. Being able to watch a film outdoors has an old-school, romantic and rather quirky appeal about it. Hosting our very own open-air film festival is something that we have wanted to do at Brindleyplace for a long while and it is incredibly exciting that, thanks to the support from our tenants, we are able to make it happen this year.
”We have had a huge number of film suggestions from our tenants at Brindleyplace and we are now compiling the shortlist of films which we feel will help to bring back only the best childhood memories. Even though we haven’t had the warmest summer to shout about, I hope everyone pops along to the film festival come rain or shine – just bring a brolly! Fingers crossed we can make this an annual event in Birmingham and something which draws more and more people to the city.”
For more information visit www.brindleyplace.com
The Co-Op Film Festival
Call for Entries Now Open
This years Film Festival will take place Thursday 1st – Friday 2nd November in Manchester and the Call for Entries is now open.
If you’re passionate about the world around you, pick up a camera and have your say. You could see your short film up on the big screen at The Co-operative Film Festival.
There are no categories to limit the imagination, and film makers are encouraged to tackle issues that concern them, through drama or documentary, animation or comedy, to music video or silent movie.
Be co-operative, be creative. Tackle an issue that concerns you such as fairtrade, climate change, healthy living or your community. Challenge stereotypes, make us gasp or laugh. Be experimental or innovative. Change your world.
Deadline for entries: Friday 31st August
