So, farewell Christo
On Monday at 7.00pm, Cheltenham International Film Festival will be showing Walking on Water, a documentary about the artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, known simply as Christo, and his extraordinary project to build a floating walkway across an Italian lake. This is poignant, because Christo died…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Steven Berkoff
John Morrish Earlier this year, an actor/writer took to the stage in an off-West End theatre for a demanding one-man show. It tackled an incendiary topic, and portrayed a character who – while still innocent pending trial – is no-one’s idea of lovable. The character was Harvey…
Sorry To Bother You
John Morrish Sorry To Bother You, one of the surprise hits of 2018, is a strange film by any standards, but then it had a very odd genesis. The film is a powerful, funny, unorthodox satire by Raymond Riley, born 1971, better known as the…
