Free To Watch Films
Cheltenham International Film Festival is delighted to offer four films – Free To Watch – from the Festival’s 2020 festival programme which was put online in June; CIFF.Shift72.com. The four films, Days of the Bagnold Summer, Lost Transmissions, The Beautiful Game and One More Jump are not available on any other streaming platform. Free To Watch is directed at front line health and care workers through to charities and students and is part…
20% discount offer for Key Workers
Cheltenham International Film Festival 2020 – now enjoying a successful run around the living rooms of the UK – are offering key workers 20% off when booking any film in the Festival programme. The Festival is in full swing and all films are still available to watch. The programme includes films from around the world and has attracted some big names for its audience Q&As including Simon Pegg, the in-betweeners/Friday Night Dinner…
Simon Pegg speaks out in favour of Cheltenham International Film Festival going on line
Simon Pegg, renowned Gloucestershire born actor and Honorary Patron of Cheltenham International Film Festival (CIFF) has spoken today about why he supports CIFF. “My association with Cheltenham International Film Festival is founded on a personal commitment to support and help to bring the best of independent cinema to the next generation of audience. It pleases me that Cheltenham, on becoming the first narrative international film festival in the UK to…
CHELTENHAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020 ANNOUNCES ITS OPENING AND CLOSING FILMS
Following the government lockdown in March, Cheltenham has become one of the first international film festivals in the UK to go online. The Festival opens with Lost Transmissions on 8th June and closes on 14th June with a screening of White Riot. Set in Los Angeles, Lost Transmissions stars Simon Pegg (Theo), a successful record producer struggling with schizophrenic rages. Pegg delivers an impressive performance supported by co-star, Juno Temple,…
CHELTENHAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020 GOES ONLINE
The Cheltenham International Film Festival (CIFF) has moved its 2020 festival online. The live in-person festival scheduled for the end of May was cancelled when the government put the country into lockdown. The new dates for the online festival are 8th June – 14th June. During festival week, audiences will have an opportunity to select and watch up to 35 new films from some of the world’s best emerging filmmakers….
Cheltenham International Film Festival 2020 – Update
The Cheltenham International Film Festival, scheduled to take place 25th May – 31st May, has been cancelled and will now take place in the Autumn from 16th October – 1st November, 2020. Meanwhile, in order not to disappoint audiences and filmmakers, the festival organisers are working to upload an alternative version of the May Festival online, keeping as much as possible to the original programme. The online version seeks to…
Potential volunteers for the Cheltenham International Film Festival 2020 encouraged to get in touch
Cheltenham International Film Festival 2020 is inviting potential volunteers to get in touch. There are a wide range of volunteering opportunities available not just during the Festival itself but also in the days, weeks and months leading up to it. Just some of the volunteering opportunities include the role of Volunteer Manager, marshalls, social media, PA to Festival Director, Photographer, Producer, hosts and many more. Feedback from people who volunteered…
Film fans and Gloucestershire residents invited to sign up for the CIFF newsletter to be the first to hear about the 2020 Festival
The organisers of the 2020 Cheltenham International Film Festival (CIFF) invite film fans, residents in and around Cheltenham and throughout Gloucestershire to sign up for the CIFF newsletter. Readers will be the first to hear about plans for the 2020 event and get advanced notice of the list of films which will be screened at venues across town.. Leslie Montgomery Sheldon, the Festival Founder and Director explained why people may…
Cheltenham International Film Festival to benefit from Cheltenham Borough Council Lottery
Cheltenham Borough Council has launched a brand, new Lottery to help local charities to raise money for good causes in Cheltenham and the Cheltenham International Film Festival will one of the causes to benefit. Tickets for the lottery cost £1 per week. Each ticket has a 1 in 50 chance to win a prize each week, with a top prize of £25,000. That’s a better chance of winning than the…