WHAT’S ON / April 2014
BRENDAN GLEESON STARS IN A NEW BLACK COMEDY FROM JOHN MICHAEL MCDONAGH, WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF THE GUARD. THIS ISSUE:
THE DOUBLE THE SEA 14TH BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL
BOOKING AND VENUE INFORMATION
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02/03
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STOP PRESS SPECIAL JAMESON SAMPLING SCREENINGS GREAT IRISH FILM, GREAT IRISH WHISKEY
CALVARY
Calvary may only be the second directorial offering from John Michael McDonagh, but it’s already leading the charge for Irish cinema in 2014. To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Jameson Irish Whiskey to compliment opening screenings with another of Ireland’s most infamous exports.
Proudly continuing their tradition to champion Irish cinema, free Jameson, Ginger and Lime cocktails will be available in the Jameson bar ahead of screenings of Calvary on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 April. Just show your ticket & collect your token when you arrive to claim your free drink. Great Irish whiskey and a great Irish film – a match made in heaven.
Contents
4 CALVARY
5 THE DOUBLE
6
THE SEA
7
VES SAINT LAURENT / Y THE LUNCHBOX
8
AT A GLANCE
9
STORY OF CHILDREN A AND FILM / THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD
10 20 FEET FROM STARDOM / REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
12 14TH BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
14
T LIVE: KING LEAR / N NT LIVE: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME / RSC LIVE: HENRY IV PARTS I & II
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NEW RELEASES
CALVARY FRI 11 – THURS 24 APR
DIR: JOHN MICHAEL MCDONAGH • IRELAND/UK • 2014 • 1 HR 41 MINS • COMEDY/DRAMA • CAST: BRENDAN GLEESON, CHRIS O’DOWD, KELLY REILLY
“ McDonagh’s film is terrific … Calvary boasts a sharp sense of place and a deep love of language. It’s puckish and playful, mercurial and clever, rattling with gallows laughter as it paints a portrait of an Irish community that is at once intimate and alienated.” Xan Brooks, The Guardian Set against the magnificent Sligo landscape, John Michael McDonagh’s second feature shares a leading man and a similar dark sense of humour with his debut, the hugely successful The Guard. Calvary begins in the intimacy of a Catholic Church confessional box. Father James (a magnificent Brendan Gleeson) listens as the voice on the opposite side of the covered window recounts being sexually abused by a clergyman from the age of 7. The unseen parishioner informs the priest that he’s giving him a week to make his peace with God and the world, arranging a Sunday meeting on the beach where he intends to kill him. Since the man who molested him died long ago, he reasons that the death of an innocent priest will make more of a statement.
Father James appears to have recognised the voice, and while he seeks counsel from the Bishop (David McSavage), he declines to name his prospective murderer, even later when a violent warning suggests the seriousness of the threat. Instead, in what amounts to an anticipatory whodunit that’s equal parts Agatha Christie and Stations of the Cross, he makes his regular parish rounds amongst his motley collection of parishioners – a community of lost souls and, it seems, potential murder suspects. McDonagh’s crackling dialogue makes the priest’s exchanges with the townsfolk so frequently hilarious that you almost don’t notice the dark shadows underneath.
A stunning turn by Gleeson leads a wealth of Irish talent including Chris O’Dowd, Dylan Moran, Kelly Reilly and Pat Shortt. Complimentary Jameson & Ginger with your ticket – see page 3 for details! The 6.30pm screening on Wed 23 Apr will be an Access screening with audio description and on-screen captioning.
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THE DOUBLE FRI 4 – THURS 17 APR
Dir: Richard Ayoade • UK • 2013 • 1 Hr 33 Mins • COMEDY/Drama/THRILLER • Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Chris O’Dowd
“ Richard Ayoade deftly crafts humanist comedy from dark, Kafkaesque absurdity in his Dostoyevsky adaptation.” The Skinny Comedy legend turned director Richard Ayoade (aka Moss, The IT Crowd), follows up his wonderful 2010 debut, Submarine, with this adaptation of the novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Like Submarine, The Double centres on a hapless sad sack, in this case Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), a lowly wage slave in love with his co-worker Hannah (Mia Wasikowska). Then, in a surreal turn of events, Simon
finds himself supplanted at work by a mysterious doppelgänger, name of James Simon. Taking up residence in the same apartment complex and summarily courting the very woman Simon has been pursuing in silence for years, James arrives with all the gratifying presence you could hope for in a visual metaphor, and it’s to Ayoade’s credit that he handles the many sequences of doubling and opposition with the right degree of subtlety and grace. Though their early interactions are duly hilarious—particularly when James begins coaching Simon on how to dazzle where he
ordinarily stumbles, instructing him to exude confidence and lick his lips conspicuously in a way he only manages to make embarrassingly lizard-like—they are crucially inflected with the pain of their symbolic import, underscoring even the broadest elements of comic fantasy with the hurt of lived experience. Set against a moody backdrop of monolithic office blocks and bizarre contraptions, The Double evokes shades of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil with its fantastical setting and absurdist plot. It’s a fitting follow up to Submarine and firmly establishes Ayoade as a unique and eclectic talent.
NEW RELEASES
THE SEA FRI 18 APR – THURS 1 MAY
Dir: Stephen Brown • IRELAND/UK • 2013 • 1 Hr 26 Mins • drama • Cast: Ciarán Hinds, Natascha McElhone, Charlotte Rampling
Grieving after the death of his wife and wrestling with the demons of his past, art historian Max Morden (Ciarán Hinds) returns to the sleepy seaside resort where he spent summers as a child, in John Banville’s own adaptation of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel. The anchoring present-day narrative finds Morden in a quietly morose tailspin following the death of his wife, Anna (Sinead Cusack), from cancer. Against the advice of his adult daughter, Claire (Ruth Bradley), he nurses his grief by withdrawing to the remote Irish seaside village where he spent a fateful childhood summer with the affluent Grace family, whose matriarch (Natascha McElhone) he quietly pined for —
and whose children possessed a troubling secret. When Max returns to the cottage the Graces have long since vacated, he finds the estate is now looked after by Miss Vavasour (Charlotte Rampling). She witnesses Max’s alcoholic descent into a private abyss, as he is haunted by unbearable losses that demand to be reckoned with. Afforded the least, but most searing, screen time are Anna’s final days, which economically imply longer-running problems in Max’s marriage. In a uniformly strong cast, a superbly terse Cusack cuts that little bit deeper as a dying woman who understandably has no time for her husband’s hovering pain. The Sea is a story of memory, love, loss, regret, and the persistent possibility of rebirth.
06/07
NEW RELEASES
YVES SAINT LAURENT
FRI 4 – THURS 10 APR
Paris, 1957, and at the age of 21 talented young designer Yves Saint Laurent takes up a position as assistant to couturier Christian Dior. After Dior’s sudden death Saint Laurent is made artistic director of one of the world’s most renowned fashion houses. His first collection is a triumphant success and this shy fashion genius becomes famous overnight. In Pierre Bergé he finds the love of his life and together they found their own label: ‘Yves Saint Laurent’.
THE LUNCHBOX
FRI 18 – THURS 24 APR
Dir: Jalil Lespert • FRANCE • 2014 • 1 Hr 46 Mins • BIOGRAPHY/Drama • Cast: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon • SUBTITLED
The pioneering French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is stunningly portrayed in this evocative biopic which charts twenty years of the prodigal creative’s life.
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Dir: Ritesh Batra • INDIA/FRANCE/GERMANY/USA • 2013 • 1 HR 45 MINS • DRAMA/ROMANCE • Cast: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui • SUBTITLED
Laurent is brought to life by Pierre Niney; who perfectly embodies the lanky physicality, artistic determination and pathological shyness of the icon, the actor even learned to sew, draw, and design, and researched the YSL archives in order to fully embody his character. Director Jalil Lespert creates a monument to one of the most creative proponents the world of fashion has ever known and fills each and every frame with faultless and loving attention to period detail. A touching and exciting look at the early life and love of the genius, the film gives an impressive insight into the relationship between success, talent, beauty and art.
Crossed wires and swapped lunches make for a delicious feel-good romance in Ritesh Batra’s Mumbai-set charmer. Every day Ila (Nimrat Kaur) lovingly prepares a delicious lunch that is delivered via Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system to a husband who fails to appreciate the food or her. One day the food is mistakenly delivered to mild-mannered widower Saajan (Irrfan Khan). He is astonished by the tender loving care in every mouthful. Once she realises the error, Ila writes her mystery diner a note and soon they are exchanging the most tender of confidences through the lunchboxes. A wonderful, feel-good tale with a generous spirit that is quite irresistible. Also screening on Mon 31 March as part of the 14th Belfast Film Festival (see page 12 for selected highlights).
AT A GLANCE
MARCH DATE
EVENT
TIME
DATE
EVENT
TIME
Fri 28
Ilo Ilo The German Doctor Vic + Flo Saw a Bear Suzanne
7.00pm 7.00pm 9.00pm 9.15pm
Sun 6
The Double A Story of Children and Film Yves Saint Laurent
5.30pm/7.30pm 5.40pm 7.55pm
Sat 29
Renée Glynne In Conversation Peripheral Vision The Quatermass Xperiment Busby Furball Before the Winter Chill Visitors Concrete Night Blue Ruin
2 .00pm 2.00pm 4.00pm 6.00pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 9.00pm 9.15pm
Mon 7 – Thurs 10
The Double Yves Saint Laurent A Story of Children and Film
6.30pm/8.30pm 6.40pm 8.55pm
Fri 11 – Sat 12
The Double Calvary
6.30pm/8.30pm 6.40pm/8.50pm
Sun 13
The Double Calvary
5.30pm/7.30pm 5.40pm/7.50pm
Mon 14 – Thurs 17
The Double Calvary
6.30pm/8.30pm 6.40pm/8.50pm
Fri 18
The King and the Mockingbird Rebel Without a Cause The Sea Calvary The Lunchbox 20 Feet from Stardom
3.35pm 4.10pm 5.30pm 6.30pm/8.40pm 7.15pm 9.20pm
Sat 19
The King and the Mockingbird Rebel Without a Cause The Sea Calvary The Lunchbox 20 Feet from Stardom
3.15pm 4.10pm 5.10pm 6.30pm/8.40pm 6.55pm 9.05pm
Sun 20
The King and the Mockingbird Rebel Without a Cause + intro The Sea Calvary The Lunchbox 20 Feet from Stardom
2.45pm 3.10pm 4.40pm 5.40pm/7.50pm 6.25pm 8.35pm
Mon 21
The King and the Mockingbird Rebel Without a Cause The Sea Calvary 20 Feet from Stardom + intro The Lunchbox
3.35pm 4.10pm 5.30pm 6.30pm/8.40pm 7.15pm 9.15pm
Tues 22
The Sea Calvary 20 Feet from Stardom The Lunchbox
5.40pm 6.30pm/8.40pm 7.25pm 9.15pm
Wed 23
The Sea Calvary (Access screening) 20 Feet from Stardom Calvary The Lunchbox
5.40pm 6.30pm 7.25pm 8.40pm 9.15pm
Thurs 24
The Sea Calvary 20 Feet from Stardom The Lunchbox
5.40pm 6.30pm/8.40pm 7.25pm 9.15pm
Sun 30
Mon 31
Inspirations for Good Vibrations Filmmaking and the Post-Conflict City Bolshoi Live: Marco Spada The Distance Borgman The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears Of Horses and Men Thou Gild’st the Even The Lunchbox Sleep Furiously You and the Night
1.00pm 2.00pm 4.00pm 7.00pm 7.15pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 9.00pm 9.00pm
APRIL DATE
EVENT
TIME
Tue 1
Patrick Doyle workshop Honour The Dirties Stream of Love The Desert
12.00pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 9.00pm 9.15pm
Wed 2
Sleepless Nights A Story of Children and Film Bad Hair Sacro Gra The Congress
2.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 9.00pm 9.15pm
Border I Am Belfast: Work In Progress Here Be Dragons The Strange Little Cat
6.45pm
Fri 4
The Double A Story of Children and Film Yves Saint Laurent
6.30pm/8.30pm 6.40pm 8.55pm
Sat 5
Short Film Competition 1 Will Simpson talk Short Film Competition 2 Sepideh Reaching for the Stars Short Film Competition 3 A Story of Children and Film The Double Yves Saint Laurent
10.00am 12.00pm 1.30pm
Thurs 3
7.00pm 9.00pm 9.15pm
2.30pm 4.00pm 6.30pm 6.50pm/8.50pm 8.45pm
Times are subject to change. Please check queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.
08/09
NEW RELEASES
EASTER FAMILY FILM (Le roi et l’oiseau)
A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM
FRI 4 – THURS 10 APR
FRI 18 – MON 21 APR
DIR: Mark Cousins • UK • 2013 • 1 HR 46 MINS • DOCUMENTARY • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
Dir: Paul Grimault • FRANCE • 1980 • 1 HR 24 MINS • ANIMATION/FAMILY/FANTASY • ENGLISH LANGUAGE DUBBED VERSION
A personal and poetic essay by Mark Cousins which explores what cinema tells us about childhood, and what childhood tells us about cinema, by reference to movies from all around the world.
unknown. It combines the child’s eye view of Mark Cousins’ acclaimed film The First Movie, with the revelations and bold movie history of his 15 hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
A Story of Children and Film is the world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventures of childhood – its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness – as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries. It includes classic movies like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Red Balloon, also dozens of masterpieces (many directed by women) that are almost
“★★★★★ entirely distinctive, sometimes eccentric, always brilliant: a mosaic of clips, images and moments chosen with flair and grace, both from familiar sources and from the neglected riches of cinema around the world. Without condescension or cynicism, Cousins offers us his own humanist idealism, as refreshing as a glass of iced water.” The Guardian
Also screening on Wed 02 April as part of the 14th Belfast Film Festival (see page 12 for selected highlights).
THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD
Based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen and written by Jacques Prévert, The King and the Mockingbird is regarded as a masterpiece of French animation and has been cited by Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata as a profound influence on their work. Takicardia is ruled over by a tyrannical King who is viewed with fear by his subjects. Only the spirited, brightly feathered Mr. Bird dares to make fun of him. The King is in love with a beautiful shepherdess in a painting on his wall, but when she runs away with the chimneysweep from another painting, a wild chase across frames ensues… Suitable for children of all ages and adults who enjoy their animation packed full of ideas and wonder.
NEW RELEASES / SECOND SIGHT
SECOND SIGHT
20 FEET FROM STARDOM
FRI 18 – THURS 24 APR
FRI 18 – MON 21 APR
Dir: Morgan Neville • USA • 2013 • 1 HR 31 MINS • DOCUMENTARY/MUSIC • CAST: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer
Award-winning director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the back-up singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century.
Dir: Nicholas Ray • usa • 1955 • 1 HR 51 MINS • DRAMA/ROMANCE • Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
conflicts, sacrifices and rewards of a career spent harmonising with others.
Along with rare archival footage, the film boasts intimate interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Where would some of rock’s biggest Wonder and Mick Jagger to name just a few. However, these world hits be without backup singers? Imagine “Walk on the Wild Side” -famous figures take a backseat to the diverse array of back-up minus its doo-do-doos, or “Gimme Shelter” with no wailing singers whose lives and stories accompaniment, or “Sweet Home take centre stage in the film. Alabama” scrubbed of its “ Just about everything in this rollicking female chorus. movie is right. And anybody who gives a rip about unsung And yet, as the talented ladies in heroines of popular music this documentary point out time and giving credit when credit’s and again, it’s easy to forget overdue had better come up they exist. with a good excuse not to Triumphant and heartbreaking see it.” Chicago Tribune in equal measure, the film is both Introduction by Marcus Smith, a tribute to the unsung voices who brought shape and style to popular Associate Tutor, Open University, on Mon 21 April at 7.15pm. music and a reflection on the Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature 2014.
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Perfectly capturing the zeitgeist of America in the ‘50s and the film that immortalised James Dean when it was released just a month after his death, Rebel Without a Cause returns to cinemas in a stunning new restoration. Dean’s performance came to define and crystallise some of the most potent and lasting cultural shifts of the 1950s. Through it, he became an all-American icon and the symbol of that most American of phenomena - the teenager. His role as Jim Stark, a young delinquent who is new in town and is struggling to fit in, came to immortalise Dean in this respect. It still serves as the definitive paen to the throes of rebellious youth and a ubiquitous reference point for acts of cool defiance. Introduction by Laura Shearer, film blogger, www.filmthinktank.com, on Sun 20 April at 3.10pm.
SPECIAL EVENTS: 14TH BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL
14th belfast film festivaL HIGHLIGHTS
The Belfast Film Festival is back for its 14th festival and a week-long residency at QFT. Here are some highlights from the festival. For details of the full programme at venues across Belfast, visit belfastfilmfestival.org Tickets for selected highlights £6.
New cinema
Documentary
WED 2 APR, 7PM
THURS 3 APR, 9PM
Bad Hair
HERE BE DRAGONS
DIR: Mariana Rondón • Venezuela/Peru/Argentina/Germany • 2013 • 1 HR 33 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: Beto Benites, Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange Zambrano • SUBTITLED
DIR: MARK COUSINS • UK • 2013 • 1 HR 19 MINS • DOCUMENTARY
A nine-year-old boy’s obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother in this tender but clear eyed coming of age tale.
Filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins turns explorer as his voyage to Albania takes him under the skin of the country’s fragile cinematic culture.
The slippery nature of identity is at the heart of this third feature from Venezuelan writer-director Marina Rondón.
Following his critically acclaimed A Story of Children and Film, Mark Cousins has crafted a delightful new essay film, inviting us to join him as he researches the political and cultural landscape of Albania.
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Talking film New cinema
VIC + FLO SAW A BEAR FRI 28 MAR, 9PM
Denis Côté • CANADA • 2013 • 1 HR 35 MINS • CRIME/DRAMA/THRILLER • CAST: Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer, Marc-André Grondin • SUBTITLED
Renée Glynne In Conversation SAT 29TH MAR, 2PM
Nothing is what it seems in Denis Côté’s latest genre-bending work, a darkly mysterious tale of two lesbian ex-cons trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec.
Renée Glynne started off in the film industry at 17 and over the next 60+ years rose to become one of the most respected continuity/script supervisors in the business.
With its collection of complex and eccentric characters, unexpected plot twists and unsettling humour, it is at once traumatising, uplifting, and utterly breathless.
Her films range from Brief Encounter to The Quatermass Xperiment and she has worked with the likes of David Lean, Jean Luc Godard, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin.
Winner of the 2013 Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Following the talk, Renée will introduce The Quatermass Xperiment.
New cinema
Documentary
TUES 1 APR, 7PM
WED 2 APR, 9PM
The Dirties
SACRO GRA
DIR: MATT JOHNSON • CANADA • 2013 • 1 HR 20 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Padraig Singal
DIR: Gianfranco Rosi • ITALY/FRANCE • 2013 • 1 HR 33 MINS • DOCUMENTARY • SUBTITLED
Two best friends are filming a comedy about getting revenge on the bullies at their high school, but one of them isn’t joking.
This picaresque and insightful documentary about the people living around Rome’s Ring Road was the winner of this year’s Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Winner of multiple awards at American independent film festivals, The Dirties is a riotous comedy that is paced and edited in such a dazzling way that its thematic seriousness shines through.
Combining a deceptively simple verité style with luminous cinematography, acclaimed Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi introduces us to a gallery of fascinating characters.
SPECIAL EVENTS: NT LIVE / RSC LIVE
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF HENRY IV THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME PARTS I & II
King Lear
THURS 1 MAY, 7PM (LIVE) / SUN 18 MAY, 3PM (ENCORE) / SUN 25 MAY, 3PM (ENCORE)
SOLD OUT
by William Shakespeare Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) returns to the National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale (Timon of Athens, Collaborators) in the title role of Shakespeare’s tragedy. An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Lear’s world descends into chaos.
THURS 22 MAY, 7PM (ENCORE) / SUN 1 JUN, 3PM (ENCORE)
Following its smash-hit live broadcast in 2012, the National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time returns to cinemas. Based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has been hailed by The Times as ‘a phenomenal combination of storytelling and spectacle’. Winner of 7 Olivier Awards in 2013, including Best New Play.
NT LIVE TICKETS Live performances: £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders) Recorded encore performances: £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)
HENRY IV PART I: WED 14 MAY, 7PM HENRY IV PART II: WED 18 JUN, 7PM
Live cinema broadcasts from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Following his production of Richard II in October 2013, RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s history plays with Henry IV Parts I and II, an epic, comic and thrilling vision of a nation in turmoil. RSC Associate Artist Antony Sher returns to the Company to play the infamous comic knight Falstaff. He is joined by Jasper Britton as Henry IV and Alex Hassell as Prince Hal.
RCS LIVE TICKETS £15 (£12.50 concessions / QFT Film Card holders)
14/15
FILM HUB NI
FILM HUB NI OPENING UP A WORLD OF FILM And we’re off...
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We are delighted to announce that the first three projects have been given the green-light for investment by Film Hub NI from our Grassroots and Impact schemes. From our very first call for proposals, Film Hub NI members Strand Arts Centre, Outburst Arts and Dungannon Film Club have together received an investment package totalling £23,435, which will assist them in developing and delivering three vibrant new projects.
THE projects
Strand Arts Centre We’re delighted that one of the jewels in the crown of Belfast cinema is one of the first organisations to be involved in Film Hub NI’s investment schemes. The Strand, the last remaining art-deco cinema in Belfast, will deliver a three month programme of weekly ‘Silver Screen’ films and talks which celebrate the heritage of film over the past century. Each showing will be a film that encapsulates a particular decade. The programme will also see the creation of the Strand Seniors Film Society, an open club which actively promotes regular cinema outings by senior groups. strandartscentre.com
Outburst Arts Outburst Arts, one of the most dynamic and innovative arts organisations in NI will create a celebration of ‘New Queer Cinema’ across Northern Ireland. The tour will have an emphasis on audience development for queer cinema in Northern Ireland, introducing new audiences to documentary, features and shorts in a social context which will be accessible and welcoming.
Dungannon Film Club The project aims to increase the existing DFC screening programme by 100%. This exciting new Film Club has been making waves in Tyrone, with their accessible programme and a passionate dedication to reflecting all communities in the Dungannon and South Tyrone area. dungannonfilmclub.co.uk
outburstarts.com
HAVE YOU GOT A BIG FILM SCREENING IDEA? Our next call for proposals is now open. Proposals are being accepted from 10 March to 18 April. Please visit queensfilmtheatre.com/ filmhub/investment or contact Hugh Odling-Smee, Interim Project Manager, on filmhubni@qub.ac.uk or 028 9097 3054 to discuss any proposal your organisation might have.