FILM SCREENINGS Sunday 12 July | 3pm SEACOAL + GLASSWORKS
Sunday 23 August | 3pm LIKE FATHER + HIGH ROW
(1985, 83 mins & 1977, 20 mins)
(2001, 95 mins & 1973, 33 mins)
Amber’s first feature drama, made with the seacoaling community at Lynemouth, Northumberland + GLASSWORKS a documentary about industrial glassblowing at Lemington.
Feature drama exploring men’s lives in East Durham in the aftermath of pit closure + HIGH ROW documenting a small drift mine above the South Tyne Valley.
Wednesday 15 July | 5.45pm IN FADING LIGHT + LAUNCH
Wednesday 26 August | 5.45pm THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS + MAYBE
(1989, 103 mins & 1973, 10 mins,)
(2008, 90 mins & 1969, 10 mins)
Feature drama about the North Shields fishing industry + LAUNCH documenting the launch of World Unicorn at Wallsend.
A documentary about Amber founder Murray Martin, who died in 2007 + MAYBE, Murray Martin’s student film which became Amber’s first work.
Sunday 26 July | 3pm DREAM ON
Sunday 27 September| 3pm BYKER + TODAY I’M WITH YOU
(1991, 115 mins)
(1983, 53 mins & 2010, 54 mins)
Magical realist feature drama exploring the lives of a women’s darts team on North Shields’ Meadow Well Estate.
A celebration of a working class community of terraced streets on the edge of destruction based around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs + TODAY I’M WITH YOU, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s return to Byker Wall Estate to create a portrait of its new communities.
Wednesday 29 July | 5.45pm EDEN VALLEY (1995, 95 mins)
Feature drama made with the harness racing (trotting) community in County Durham
Wednesday 30 September | 5.45pm FROM US TO ME (2015, 85 mins, 5.45pm)
Wednesday 5 August | 5.45pm THE WRITING IN THE SAND
Amber’s return to the former East German fishing and shipbuilding town of Rostock, which, in 1987, it documented as From Marks & Spencer to Marx and Engels.
A documentary about the life on NE beaches constructed from Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs + LETTERS TO KATJA (1994, 57 mins) documenting Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s return to Finland.
Book online at: www.tynesidecinema.co.uk . Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG . 0191 227 5500
(1991, 45 mins)