For a programmer, the film festival is always a time of mixed emotion. There is the relief that all the effort you’ve put in to watching, picking, and arguing over the best films is finally at an end. Nine months of contacting and chasing distributors are over and, for a couple of months, you are […]
With exactly one week to go until the launch of the 2014 Bath Film Festival, the only appropriate thing to do is to take a look at the people behind-the-scenes and find out exactly what it is they’ve been doing in preparation for BFF’s most anticipated year yet. The day-to-day running of the event takes […]
Elspeth Hinde is part of the Programming Team. Her particular passion is sci fi and this is what she has to say about this year’s selection… This year’s Bath Film Festival is filled to the brim with must-see movies. In amongst all of the star-packed sellouts, there are more hidden gems than even Blackbeard would […]
We are launching a new category in the 24th Bath Film Festival, the F-Rated Strand. Festival Producer Holly Tarquini explains: “Everyone knows how male-heavy the film industry is, both on and off camera – in the last 5 years, for example, fewer than 5% of feature films released by major US studios were directed by […]
Bringing the best releases to your doorstep. Bath Film Festival has always been committed to community cinema: Festival Founder, Chris Baker has probably set up more screenings in town halls round Bath than he has had hot dinners! In 2012 we received funding from Bath & North East Somerset Council and Creative England to screen […]
For all of you not lucky enough to have got a ticket for Monday night’s IMDb Script to Screen Award Evening, let me set the scene. FADE IN Ext. The Little Theatre Cinema, Bath – DAY A crowd gathers anxiously outside, as volunteers wearing the iconic white Bath Film Festival t-shirts hurry passed setting up […]
On your marks… get set… compose! The FilmScore Competition is finally here and we are encouraging anyone aged 13 – 19 to get involved! For more information about this most excellent competition, read all about it here, and if you want to enter, then register here.
The culmination of several years of dreaming, and two years of planning came to fruition on the evening of Saturday 25 January 2014, when Bath Film Festival screened Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ in Wells Cathedral. Thanks to the generosity of the Chapter of Wells Cathedral, and the Dean himself, Bath Film Festival were […]
