SUPPORT YOUR FAVOURITE FILM FESTIVAL

In this final edition of the Chichester International Film Festival with Roger Gibson as Artistic Director, show your support by becoming either a:

FESTIVAL PATRON – where you can support the Film Festival as a whole by pledging £475 (or more!!!).

FILM PARTNER – for those wishing to support individual film screenings (£150 each film or 3 films for £375).

Lots of treats are in store for our supporters, including early viewing of the Film programme, free film tickets, and a Festival launch event at Brasserie Blanc with yummy pastries… what more temptation would anyone need?

Simply get in touch with Walter Francisco at walter@chichestercinema.org by July 3rd to pledge your Festival support.

SAT 29 JUL 10:30IN THE AUDITORIUM TICKETS £6.50

LET’S START AT THE VERY BEGINNING

THE HISTORY OF ‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’

‘The Sound of Music’ is on stage at Chichester Festival Theatre this Summer and this talk will explore how the screen version became the most successful film musical of all time.

In 1962, 20th Century Fox was nearly bankrupt and the producer of the screen version of ‘The Sound of Music’, Richard D. Zanuck was having trouble convincing top directors to take it on. William Wyler hated the idea and Robert Wise was lukewarm. But, thanks to a new script by Ernest Lehman, he changed his mind. What changed? Was it the audience’s yearning for the belief and transcendence that once existed in cinema? This talk will encompass the source material, ‘The Story of the Trapp Family Singers’ through the earlier German version ‘Die Trapp-Familie’, the Broadway musical ‘The Sound of Music’ by Rodgers and Hammerstein and finally the film itself, which went on to win five Oscars, beating ‘Dr Zhivago’ to Best Picture. This talk from Andrew Vance of the Cinema Education Team, in collaboration with Professor Andrew Chandler of the University of Chichester, will also look at the historical background to the events depicted in the film.

100M (INC Q&A)