Borderlines Film Festival 2012 programme features Oscar-nominated movies and actors (From Hereford Times)

Borderlines Film Festival 2012 programme features Oscar-nominated movies and actors

10:00am Thursday 2nd February 2012 in County

OSCAR-nominated movies and stars feature prominently in this year's 10th anniversary Borderlines Film Festival, which opens on Friday, February 24, with the film that's been grabbing headlines and awards since it opened, The Artist, nominated in 10 categories, and The Descendants, also nominated in the best film category, with its star George Clooney picking up a best actor nomination.

Borderlines will also screen The Iron Lady, for which Meryl Streep is nominated an 18th time for an Oscar, ( and Warhorse, featuring Hereford actor Matt Milne and helped to its screen realisation by Hay Festival's revel Guest, has a nomination for best film. This year’s festival is dedicated to the memory of long-standing festival board member and supporter Peter Williamson, of Wyevale Nurseries, and will screen more than 70 films at 36 locations from south Herefordshire to the northernmost corners of Shropshire. Borderlines is also delighted to be hosting BAFTA’s first-ever village hall event on March 3 at Moccas, when Bruce Robinson (The Killing Fields, Withnail and I, The Rum Diary) will be in conversation with the presenter of Radio 4’s Film Programme, Francine Stock (now a festival patron). Also on the line-up is the BAFTA nominated Shame with Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in a fraught brother/sister relationship. As always, of course, there is plenty of less mainstream, more eclectic film fare with The Well-Digger’s Daughter, a sun-drenched evocation of life in 1940s’ Provence, and a pre-release screening of the Cannes prize-winning Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Tune for the Blood, a new feature length documentary directed and produced by Hereford-based Anne Cottringer, which chronicles a year in the lives of Herefordshire Young Farmers, gets its first showing on Borderlines’ opening weekend. Resistance, filmed in the beautiful Olchon valley, plays at no fewer than 10 venues with writer Owen Sheers, originally from Abergavenny, introducing the film at Michaelchurch Escley. Two Resistance-themed walks are also scheduled. Continuing the rural theme, The Archers’ agriculture adviser Steve Peacock and senior sound supervisor Louise Willcox go behind the scenes of Radio 4’s long-running, popular drama serial with sounds and pictures at Ewyas Harold and Bromyard on March 4. “At a time when the government’s Film Policy Review is pledging its commitment to ‘launching digital screens and projectors in more rural community and village halls’, we are proud to be offering an exceptionally strong contingent of rural films and events spanning two of the UK’s most remote counties,” says Naomi Vera- Sanso, Borderlines’ executive director, Booking is now open for the festival which runs until March 11. Central box office: 01432 340555.