Stroud Film Festival on Fire 🔥
We are THRILLED to be able to share secrets from the world production design from two talented designers Jenny Bowers and Louisa Birking at our screening on Friday 21st March at 7.30pm at Lansdown Hall.
Image Credit: Screen Grab from SAVI, courtesy of Dave Fedash
Alt Image Text: Two young females sit on a fallen treebranch in the woods
The event includes a first look at the brand new trailer of local feature film Such A Vivid Imagination and a screening of the wonderful Canadian/Korean coming of age film Riceboy Sleeps.
While SAVI is still in the edit, we are very lucky to be able to screen the trailer as part of our event focusing on production design, with the added bonus of local artists and production designers Jenny Bowers (SAVI) and Louisa Birkin (Riceboy Sleeps) talking about their process and how they bring all those filmic ideas to life on screen.
Alt Image Text: Screenshot from Riceboy Sleeps
Image Credit: Courtesy of the filmmakers
There is also a great short film screening event, Picture Portraits on Sunday 23rd March at 12pm in the Museum in the Park - https://www.stroudfilmfestival.org/pictureportraits
“The photographic image is core to the way in which the storytelling unfolds in these films which will be followed by discussion with film-makers.”
Alt Image Text: A Still from one of the films, for advertising purposes
A selection of films by filmmakers with local connections which tell auto and biographical stories of individuals and communities in powerful ways, amplifying marginalised voices and exploring how we can tell stories about ourselves through film. The photographic image is core to the way in which the storytelling unfolds in these films which will be followed by discussion with film-makers.
The programme includes:
Mujo - Nicoletta Monyok (director) - the journey of shadow work. Starting from the physical existence to the dance between the emotional self (naked lady), conscious self (snow lady} and spiritual self(mask - kimono lady). Facing pain, panic attack and suicide thoughts to reborn again. The film represents the yin and yang or masculine and feminine aspects of existence.
Weree - Rick Blything (sound editor) - Having fled the Liberian Civil War and living undocumented, renowned self-taught artist Johnson Weree creates otherworldly portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands.
Mirrors - Paul Daly (director) - From volatile public demonstrations to intimate domestic scenes, the film reveals the experience and emotions of living in England, explored through the lives of total strangers, family, and friends. Shot exclusively on 16mm film, Mirrors is both lucid diary and poetic map - a meditation on human resilience, a journey across an island.
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil - Nariman Massoumi (director) - In 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company set out to produce a Technicolour publicity film promoting its activities in Iran. They hired the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, a little-known aspect of his life despite the numerous publications about him. Combining colonial archival photographs with Thomas's lyrical account (performed in voiceover by actor MICHAEL SHEEN), this documentary film follows the poet's journey through the country.
Alt Image Text on cover of blogpost: An 8mm film camera shoots a firework into the sky
Image Credit: Photo by Thomas William on Unsplash, edit by Robyn Pete