Press Release
25 cinemas, 75 films, 150 screenings -
Borderlines Film Festival
(March 28 - April 13th 2008)
Contact:
Bill Laws 07742 825813;
Alison Chapman (images) 07969 393884
Date: 27th January 2008
The sixth Borderlines Film Festival gets under way next month (March). But it will be an opening night with a difference when nine villages, together with Ledbury's Market Theatre, lay out the red carpet
From Burghill, Bodenham, Bosbury and Ewyas Harold to Garway, Gorsley, Moccas and Little Dewchurch, parishioners will turn their village halls into picture palaces to screen major new releases like Brick Lane, Lady Chatterley and Cannes Prize winner, The Band's Visit. David Gillam is director of the sixth Borderlines Film Festival: "Normally you'd be hard pressed to find many of these films outside the big cities so this year Borderlines is to combine some of the best of world cinema with some of our friendliest local venues."
Hereford's The Courtyard and Ludlow's Assembly Rooms will screen 30 contemporary films including a batch of this year's BAFTA nominations: Control, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, and No Country For Old Men.
Hereford and Ludlow will also host film events. Watch out for the Great European Directors season (expect to see masterpieces like Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, master puppeteer and animator Jan Svankmajer's Alice, and Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour), A Garden Miscellany, the British Film Institute's collection of archive and documentary garden films; and a live accompaniment to Buster Keaton's final classic, The Cameraman by pianist Paul Shallcross.
Borderlines' partnerships with Arts Alive's Flicks in the Sticks, and its previous guest list of people like Jo Brand, Monty Don, Sophie Fiennes, Stephen Frears (The Queen) and former Film Night front man Barry Norman, has helped turn it into Britain's biggest rural film festival.
As Hereford film enthusiast Kathy Gray puts it: "Borderlines gives you a taste of that communal movie-going experience where the projectionist takes your ticket and, if it's a village screening, makes the tea too!"
This year's venue list is bigger than ever: All Stretton, Ballingham, Bodenham, Bosbury, Brilley, Burghill, Church Stretton, Ewyas Harold, Fownhope, Garway, Gorsley, Hay, Hereford, Ledbury, Leintwardine, Leominster, Little Dewchurch, Ludlow, Michaelchurch Escley, Moccas, Presteigne, Ross and Tenbury Wells.
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Notes to editors.
- Borderlines runs from March 28th and to April 12th 2008.
- Stills from: No Country for Old Men; Brick Lane; Alice; The Band's Visit
- Borderlines Film Festival is funded by Screen WM through the Access Fund and the National Lottery through the UK Film Council, Herefordshire Council, the Elmley Foundation, South Shropshire District Council, the Nexus Grant Programme (supporting the Rural Regeneration Zone in the West Midlands through the West Midlands Rural Community Council), the Rural Regeneration Zone and Arts and Business.
- Screen WM is the regional agency that supports, promotes and develops a sustainable and thriving screen media sector in the West Midlands. Screen WM will:
- promote the West Midlands region by raising the profile of its diverse locations.
- promote the West Midlands by highlighting the abundance of talent within the region's screen media sector support businesses through skills development and financial assistance.
- develop talent, from new entrants to professional freelancers and employees, wthin the West Midlands through skills development.
- support the region's moving image heritage and develop access to it.
- develop and inspire audiences across a broad range of screen media.
- promote and develop the cultural diversity of the region through the moving image.
- Press queries? Call Alison Chapman on 07969 393884 / alisonc@borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk, David Gillam on 01239 615066 or Bill Laws 07742 825813