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…
Polish Cinema
John Morrish Cinema in Poland started early. Two Poles, a chemist called Piotr Lebiedziński and an inventor, Kazimierz Prószyńsk, created a simple movie camera, the pleograph, in 1893. This was at least a year before the Lumière Brothers’ famous screenings in Paris. In the first…
Scandinavian Drama at Cheltenham International Festival of Film.
By John Morrish Snow and ice. Deep conversations about God and his absence. Blithe sunlit romance and bitter divorce. Disputes about farm animals. The clichés about Scandinavian film come thick and fast, but the region has always had so much more to offer. In over…
Women in Film
In the last few years, the role of women in the film industry has become a burning issue. And not before time. The statistics are dismaying. Although women have always been represented on screen, they have often played uninteresting and demeaning roles. When it comes…
Nicky Price, BBC Radio Gloucestershire Presenter, Talks Film
I had listened to Nicky’s afternoon programme and thought it a good idea to talk to her about film. In part, because she defines our festival audience; someone who is enthusiastic about film. But, I discovered that this was not always the case – even better….
