Forget Cannes and Hollywood first nights - this spring sees the launch of the UK's first rural film festival.
When Hereford's Courtyard Arts Centre opens its doors to a weekend of award-winning films, celebrities and movie events in March, directors Sophie Fiennes and Alex Cox, and actor Nick Moran of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels are expected to be among those giving pre-film talks and hosting post-film discussions.
"The Festival will bring some of the best of world cinema to the region," promises the co-ordinator of the new Borderlines Film Festival, David Gillam.
The feast of magnificent movies will include the British drama Dirty Pretty Things, John Malkovich's brilliant The Dancer Upstairs, the stunning Brazilian film, City of God, the hilarious The Man Without A Past, the
documentary Bowling for Columbine (recently voted Best Documentary Ever), Sophie Fiennes' Hoover Street Revival, Peter Mullan's controversial The Magdalene Sisters and Gillies MacKinnon's Pure.
The Festival is scheduled for the weekend of March 28-31.
To emphasise its unique rural remit, there will be extra screenings from March 21 at village venues in Clifford, Leintwardine, Lingen, Garway and Gorsley and in the market towns of Leominster, Ross and Ledbury and Ludlow Assembly Rooms.
Supported by The Rural Media Company's business development service, MediaDev, the Festival promises to provide a platform for local film-makers.
For further details contact David on 01432 344039.
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