Worcestershire Film Festival

‘he looks like he’s gone into sleep mode!’ This could be one of those posts that you read, the kind that lets the reader think that the writer has moved on, left the room and won’t be back. Some great realisation has happened and things have changed, it’s not you, it’s me. The reality is that Worcestershire Film Festival will be taking a break. There won’t be a show this year, 2016. There are…

The Cinema Saving Family

The BBC recently published this video about a family in Derbyshire that has begun to take over cinemas in the area and re-open them. Great to hear stories like this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35411477/embed

Digital Skills For Innovation

We’re all about education and furthering knowledge and this is how filmmaking can grow and innovate. The University of Wolverhampton is managing grants of £1000 on behalf of the Worcester City Council towards training costs for business and freelancers. The grants are for businesses and freelancers who live in Worcester only and right now there are 10 unclaimed grants which need claiming by March…

Un Petit Tour Dans Paris

“Un Petit Tour Dans Paris” is a new 1.5-minute short film by French director Maxime Baudin. http://player.vimeo.com/video/147458905 “In a splendid and romantic Paris, while everything is going too fast, a young man ride a ‘bicyle’,” the synopsis reads. “But his simple ride is going to take on a whole new dimension…” Baudin tells PetaPixel that he did the shoot over two days in Paris, shooting…

Malvern Council Looking To Increase Film Screenings

MalvernMore outdoor film screenings could be held in Malvern next year in the wake of the success of September’s showing of Jaws in Priory Park. The screening, arranged by Malvern Hills District Council, was a great success, attracting some 300 cinemagoers, twice the number estimated. It was shown to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Steven Spielberg-directed classic’s original release.And…

Flatpack Film Festival Submissions 2016 Open

The Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham is open for submissions.  As always the programme will celebrate film in all its permutations, from animated curiosities, to weird and wonderful music promos, to celluloid installations, to cerebral video essays, with just about everything in between. The festival takes place in venues all over Birmingham, UK, and runs from 18-24 April 2016. The short film…

Splendid Cinema: We’ve saved the best for last (of 2015)!

Finishing off 2015, Splendid Cinema is proud to present possibly our favourite film in the season. Wild Tales are six, unrelated short stories which manage to be funny, romantic, tragic and utterly unpredictable. Nominated for the Oscar (Best Film Not in the English Language), Palme D’or at Cannes and for Spain’s Goya awards; swept Argentina’s version of the Oscars too. Not to be missed!…

The End Of Betamax

The BBC reported last week that Sony will cease to make Betamax tape in March 2016, so if anyone still uses the infamous superior but lost video format, now is the time to buy up some stock. To be honest, I didn’t know it was still being made and apparently, the latest Beta video deck was released in 2002, a good 15yrs after it lost out to the VHS format. Sony launched the format in 1975, a year…

The End Of Betamax

The BBC reported last week that Sony will cease to make Betamax tape in March 2016, so if anyone still uses the infamous superior but lost video format, now is the time to buy up some stock. To be honest, I didn’t know it was still being made and apparently, the latest Beta video deck was released in 2002, a good 15yrs after it lost out to the VHS format. Sony launched the format in 1975, a year…

Upton-upon-Severn will soon be on the international stage as it is the location for an eerie psychological thriller. A film crew are currently filming in various locations of the town after the beauty and haunting nature of the riverside location captured the director’s imagination and proved to be ideal location for the movie to be set. The film is titled “The Wasting” and tells the story of a…

Screening Of War Films

Malvern residents are being invited to enjoy a trip back in time when war films are screened at a town venue. Malvern’s Coach House Theatre in Grange Road is holding the week when classic British War films, made during the Second World War, will be shown. Chris Green, one of the organisers of the event, said the plan was to create a nostalgic experience in seeing the films how they would have…

Free film screenings for young people

YOUNG people in and around Worcester have been invited to enjoy a youth film festival.

A series of free screenings will be held as part of the Into Film Festival. An exclusive pupil premiere of Fox Searchlight’s new documentary He Named Me Malala at 10.30 am at Worcester Vue on Wednesday, November 4 ahead of its nationwide release two days later.

The Into Film Festival, hosted by education charity…

Gritty feature film “Weapon” filmed in Worcester

A THRILLER will feature parts of Worcester as a backdrop including a hostel for the homeless and a lapdancing club.

Weapon tells the intimate and gritty story of ex-soldier Adam Smith, a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who is struggling to make the return to civilian life.

He feels deserted by the Government for which he fought only to be put in a position where he is once again at risk…

BFI Future Film Festival

Are you a filmmaker aged 16 to 25? Would you like one of your short films to be considered for inclusion in the 9th BFI Future Film Festival, in February 2016?

We’re inviting filmmakers to submit their work to the BFI Future Film Festival, the British Film Institute’s annual film festival for young people, held at the BFI Southbank in London. This year we’re pleased to offer 8 cash prizes plus…

Sorry, bit late posting this

FILM buffs and writers in Worcester can pen their own ending to a movie classic for a chance to win £2,000.

The competition, called The Alties and sponsored by Cartridge Save, is inviting people to write their own ending to a popular film.

There are five categories to consider best comedy or rom-com, best action or adventure, best fantasy, sci-fi or horror, best…