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,…
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…
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 Weinstein. The actor taking on the challenge, and risking the wrath of the entire #metoo generation, was 81 years old. This was an extraordinary development…
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 rapper Boots Riley. Riley is a highly political artist: his parents were social rights activists in Chicago and he has been associated with left-wing groups…
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 to the crafts of film-making, their representation is vanishingly small. A survey of the highest-grossing 250 films in America in 2018 showed only eight per…