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Glam rock and Desert Island Films for Borderlines Film Festival opening weekend
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Date: 21st March 2011
Glam rock and Desert Island Films for Borderlines Film Festival opening weekend
Friday sees the launch of the biggest and best Borderlines Film Festival ever with members of the legendary Hereford band in attendance for a sell-out screening of rock documentary The Ballad of Mott the Hoople at The Courtyard.
Mott the Hoople road manager and original lead singer Stan Tippins, keyboard player, Verden Allan, drummer and ex-Pretender, Martin Chambers and Evesham-born ‘Ariel Bender’, as well as the director, Chris Hall, are expected to be present to answer questions after the film.
Borderlines Film Festival, which will show more than 80 films in 41 venues in Herefordshire, Shropshire and the Marches, a phenomenal 226 screenings and events in total, plays host to an abundance of big names over its 17 days.
Sunday night sees Festival favourite, Jo Brand revealing her Desert Island Films to Radio 4’s Francine Stock at Ledbury Market Theatre. Tickets sold out within an hour of going on sale with audience members guaranteed plenty of Jo’s own brand of spiky wit.
There’s no shortage of music and comedy out in the villages and market towns. The outrageous terrorist satire Four Lions opens the Festival in Ross and accompany the Super Furry Animals’s Gruff Rhys on a wacky and psychedelic road trip in Separado!, playing both at Kington’s Burton Hotel and at Clungunford Parish Hall on Sunday 27 March.
Meanwhile in Eye, Leominster (Friday 26 March) and Moccas (Saturday 26 March) there’s a high probability of audience members identifying relatives and acquaintances up on screen in the REWIND archive film screenings.
At a recent show of the archive films from Herefordshire and Shropshire presented by the Huntley Film Archives in Fownhope, Dennis Hitchings saw himself as a sixteen-year old tractor driver back in 1942, unaware that he was being filmed.
Details of what’s on throughout the Festival along with how to book at www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org or from The Courtyard Box Office on 01432 340555.
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Editorial notes
1. Borderlines runs for 17 days from Friday 25 March to Sunday 10 April 2011, 80 films and over 200 screenings and events. www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
2. Venues include All Stretton, Aston on Clun, Bedstone, Bishops Castle, Bodenham, Bosbury, Brilley, Bromyard, Chapel Lawn, Church Stretton, Clungunford, Dilwyn, Dorstone, Ewyas Harold, Eye, Garway, Goodrich, Hay on Wye, Hereford, Kington, Ledbury, Leintwardine, Leominster, Lingen, Ludlow, Michaelchurch Escley, Moccas, Peterchurch, Presteigne, Pudleston, Ross on Wye, Tarrington, Wem
3. Borderlines Film Festival is funded by Screen WM (with the UK Film Council), Herefordshire Council, The Elmley Foundation, Hereford City Council, the Herefordshire Leader programme (part funded by the European Union (EAFRD) and Defra) and the Shropshire Screen Consortium, through the UKFC Rural Cinema Pilot Scheme.
4. The REWIND project is a collaboration between Flicks in the Sticks and the Huntley Film Archives funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and also supported by Screen West Midlands through the Digital Film Archive Fund. Huntley Film Archives is one of the largest independent film libraries in the UK, based in South Herefordshire with a collection of more than 80,000 film titles, dating from 1895 to the present day, with an emphasis on social history from Britain and around the world.
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Further images are available if required, please contact Alison Chapman on 07969 393884.