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Swale Film Festival Programme 2009

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Day One Thursday 9th July

Sittingbourne Avenue Theatre

Opening ceremony followed by short 30min screening of local, regional and digital shorts

FREE Workshop for local students “How you can make your own short film”    

Filming the event for Kent TV prize for best movie costume
Workshop with Screen Cre8ive TV

 

Stolen Youth

As the inhabitants of a quiet rural village enjoy their Sunday lunch a young tear-away embarks on a violent and destructive tour.

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Stolen Youth screening at Swlae Film Festival 2009

Memoires of a Cigarette

A tongue-in-cheek “homage” to the perilous, but for some the highly pleasurable, pursuit of smoking. Using celebrity interviews and provocative archive footage to chart the love hate relationship of the cigarette in society. 

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Memoires of a Cigarette screeening at Swale Film Festival 2009

SCREEN ON SHEPPEY - Blue Town Heritage Centre

New Voices New Lives: a programme
of award-winning short films

We will show four short films made by
directors from diverse backgrounds: The
Vacancy (Just), The Moth Catcher (Miguel
Guzman & Iyvone Khoo),Wasted Lives
(Daniel G. Cabrero), Trippy (Just). Suitable
for adults.
6.15–7.00pm FREE

Film:The Hide (15)
7.30–9.00pm £4.00 | £3.50 concs
Filmed on the Isle of Sheppey, The Hide tells the story of a reclusive bird watcher who spends his time on desolate marshes. The film stars Alex MacQueen and Phil Campbell and was directed by Marek Losey.

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The Hide - Sheppey


Day Two Friday 10th July

Website TV - Is this the future for directors getting their work screened ?
Meet the people who run website television. Information on how to get your films screened. A talk about YOU TUBE,  KENT TV and other sites available.
Afloat TV the boating channel for the South East           FREE

History of  Kent films made by various enthusiasts over the past 70 years

“A SIDEWAYS LAUNCH” 5pm - 5.45pm
Q&A with the director Michael   Maloney.     

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Sideways Launch screening at Swale Film Festival 2009

Unrelated 7.30 – 9.30 £4.00

Childless and in a deteriorating marriage, Anna fears she is condemned to a life on the periphery of events.

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Unrelated screening at The Swale Film Festival 2009

SCREEN ON SHEPPEY - Blue Town Heritage Centre

10 am  Madagascar Escape 2 Africa £4.00
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien, Maurice and penguins and the chimps find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar.

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Madagascar 2 at Screen on Sheppey
Animation Workshop Family Session - FREE                     

Learn about animation in the movies then make your own animation using ready made set, you will photograph and animate clay models and cut out drawings to make a short movie. Suitable for children 6 and over.             

Familes will learn together on a range of fun tasks including making a 3D penguin and face painting.

3.00pm and 7.30pm                            £4.00  
THE YOUNG VICTORIA (PG)
Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Jim Broudbent, Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany

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The Young Victoria at Swale Film Festival 2009


Day Three Saturday 11th July

Swale Film Awards 2009 6pm-7.30pm
Swale Film Awards
Interval in Theatre Bar

The Calling     £4.00 7.50pm

"The Calling" a film made in Kent by Medb Films director Jan Dunn, produced by Elaine Wickham and starring Brenda Blethyn, Amanda Donohoe, Susannah York, Rita Tushingham and Harriet Thorpe. Members of the cast will be attending the Swale Film Festival premiere which will be the first public screening of the film after the Edinburgh Film Festival
Q & A with director Jan Dunn and producer Elaine Wickham

The Calling Medb Films

SCREEN ON SHEPPEY - Blue Town Heritage Centre

3.00pm and 7.30pm                            £4.00  
THE YOUNG VICTORIA (PG)
Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Jim Broudbent, Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany

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The Young Victoria at Swale Film Festival 2009
Film: Lost Property
6.00–6.30pm FREE
This film was made by a group of children at Eastchurch Primary School with support from Jody Bodiam, a teaching assistant at the school.
 

FAVERSHAM

 

Film-making workshops for young people aged 16-24          (FREE)
Four half-day film-making workshops over two days for young people covering the following topics:
10am to 1pm: Script writing.
1.30pm to 4.30pm Basic camera skills.

Venue: Faversham Community Cafe

Day Four Sunday 12th July 2009

Film-making workshops for young people aged 16-24          (FREE)
The 3rd & 4th workshops in the series
10am to 1pm: Shooting a scene
1.30am to 4.30pm Editing   

Venue: Faversham Community Cafe

 

Ticket information unless otherwise stated available from Avenue Theatre Sittingbourne 01795 471140

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Please note times, venues & prices are correct at the time of publication. The organisers endeavour to show any changes to the programme here as soon as the information becomes available but we cannot take responsibility for any losses in the unlikely event that something has to be rescheduled or cancelled.

 

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