Belfast Film Festival 2014
If one of the roles of a good film festival is to restore your faith in cinema, the Belfast Film Festival does just that, writes Noel Megahey.
Category Archives: Festival Coverage
Borgman
Noel Megahey wonders whether Warmerdam’s modern-day troglodyte is a Lynchian icon of subconscious furies, or a Haneke-like threat to middle-class complacency…
Visitors
Reggio follows up his QATSI trilogy with a celebration of the beauty of the world, laced with a warning about the danger of losing touch with nature and with our very souls.
10th China Indie Film Fest
The China Independent Film Fest is an important platform for Chinese indie filmmakers who are confounded by censorship in their own country. We spoke to one of the organisers.
Interview with Dave Gillam
We spoke to the director of Wales One World Film Festival, which probably offers the most accurate definition of what world cinema should be, writes Hiu Chan.
Wales One World Film Festival
When a cultural event like the Wales One World Film Festival is conducted with such passion and love, the warmth can always be felt, writes Hiu Chan.
In Conversation with Jim Broadbent
Alison Hicks shares the highlights of Jim Broadbent’s closing talk at the excellent Watersprite Film Festival.
Watersprite Script Lab
As part of this year’s Watersprite, two students were given the opportunity to present short film scripts to industry specialist Jamie Wolpert, Development Executive at BFI.
Four Weddings And Fat Thighs
Drawing upon his experience of making megahits, Richard Curtis offered sound advice for the young filmmakers at Watersprite.
Born Positive
Always understated, BORN POSITIVE is a carefully sensitive portrayal of the resilience of these young people and their discovery of a sense of self in the face of adversity.