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| A film festival in a town with no cinema? | A film festival in a town with no cinema? |
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| Having a film festival in a town with no cinema might not seem the most obvious idea. However, organisers of the Whitley Bay Film Festival make a virtue of necessity by using some of the town's most iconic venues for screenings instead. In their first year they showed Steven Spielberg's Jaws on the beach in front of Spanish City. One local resident, after last year's festival, commented: | Having a film festival in a town with no cinema might not seem the most obvious idea. However, organisers of the Whitley Bay Film Festival make a virtue of necessity by using some of the town's most iconic venues for screenings instead. In their first year they showed Steven Spielberg's Jaws on the beach in front of Spanish City. One local resident, after last year's festival, commented: |
| I doubt that any screening in the country could match the pleasure of seeing The Fog at St Mary's lighthouse. | I doubt that any screening in the country could match the pleasure of seeing The Fog at St Mary's lighthouse. |
Now in its third year, the festival's screenings and events take place at venues including the attractive 125 foot high St Mary's Lighthouse, the astonishing grandeur of Vanbrugh's Seaton Delaval Hall, a shopping mall, Spanish City's seafront dome, a seafront café and a charity shop. | Now in its third year, the festival's screenings and events take place at venues including the attractive 125 foot high St Mary's Lighthouse, the astonishing grandeur of Vanbrugh's Seaton Delaval Hall, a shopping mall, Spanish City's seafront dome, a seafront café and a charity shop. |
| Matching suitable films to the available venues has clearly been a lot of fun for the festival's volunteer organisers. This year will see The Piano shown on the beach, Dawn of the Dead in a bland shopping centre and Whisky Galore at St Mary's Lighthouse. There is also a "Secret Cinema", in which the location and film are kept under wraps until the last minute. Last year clues led the audience to a seafront hotel, where The Shining was shown in a mock-up of the eerie ballroom of the Overlook Hotel. | Matching suitable films to the available venues has clearly been a lot of fun for the festival's volunteer organisers. This year will see The Piano shown on the beach, Dawn of the Dead in a bland shopping centre and Whisky Galore at St Mary's Lighthouse. There is also a "Secret Cinema", in which the location and film are kept under wraps until the last minute. Last year clues led the audience to a seafront hotel, where The Shining was shown in a mock-up of the eerie ballroom of the Overlook Hotel. |
| In the more normal surroundings of the Whitley Bay Playhouse there will be a screening of the 2007 film Across the Universe. This was co-written by the festival's patron, Whitley Bay-born Ian la Frenais – best known for his work on programmes like The Likely Lads and Auf Wiedersehen Pet. It will be followed by an interview with the writer and a chance for the audience to ask questions. He will also discuss the forthcoming TV series The Spies of Warsaw, starring David Tennant and Janet Montgomery, in an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel, due to be broadcast on BBC 4 this autumn. | In the more normal surroundings of the Whitley Bay Playhouse there will be a screening of the 2007 film Across the Universe. This was co-written by the festival's patron, Whitley Bay-born Ian la Frenais – best known for his work on programmes like The Likely Lads and Auf Wiedersehen Pet. It will be followed by an interview with the writer and a chance for the audience to ask questions. He will also discuss the forthcoming TV series The Spies of Warsaw, starring David Tennant and Janet Montgomery, in an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel, due to be broadcast on BBC 4 this autumn. |
| This Friday the festival starts with Some like it Hot, in place of a planned "Battle of the Bonds", with the audience invited to vote for its favourite James Bond film, which ran into licensing problems. At the end of the festival, is Arthouses, which runs over the weekend of 1-2 September, bringing film and video, site specific installations, interventions and performances to the streets of Whitley Bay. Previous Arthouses events have seen screenings and installations in kitchens, windows, birdhouses and ice-cream vans, and the public is promised | This Friday the festival starts with Some like it Hot, in place of a planned "Battle of the Bonds", with the audience invited to vote for its favourite James Bond film, which ran into licensing problems. At the end of the festival, is Arthouses, which runs over the weekend of 1-2 September, bringing film and video, site specific installations, interventions and performances to the streets of Whitley Bay. Previous Arthouses events have seen screenings and installations in kitchens, windows, birdhouses and ice-cream vans, and the public is promised |
| even more quirky venues for this year's programme. | even more quirky venues for this year's programme. |
| The Whitley Bay Film Festival runs from August 17 to September 2. The festival programme is available here. | The Whitley Bay Film Festival runs from August 17 to September 2. The festival programme is available here. |
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