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Swale Film Festival Programme
2009
Please
click here for an at a glance programme.
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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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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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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Day Two Friday 10th July
Website
TV - Is this the future for directors getting their work screened
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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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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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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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| 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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Day Three Saturday 11th July
Swale Film Awards 2009 6pm-7.30pm |
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| 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
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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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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. |
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FAVERSHAM |
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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
Please click here for an at a glance programme.
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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