By Riley Madincea who won the 2016 IMDb New Filmmaker Award for Help! I’m Trapped in a Movie Winning the IMDb New Filmmaker Award has been the absolute jewel and crown of making my first film. As someone who never went to film school and never made a film before, to take a crowd-funded project to […]
Bath Film Festival’s ever-popular screening programme will be accompanied this year by three extra attractions – a comedy celebration of Bath in celluloid being staged in collaboration with the city’s much loved Natural Theatre Company, a visit from a Finnish duo who are revolutionising how film locations can be celebrated, FanGirl Quest, and two events […]
Bath Film Festival expects to become the first in the UK, and possibly the world, to give equal attention to male and female filmmakers when it presents its 26th annual programme of new and classic cinema screenings and related events at venues across the city from November 3 to 13. The festival is already in […]
Can you give us £5, or indeed £5000 – pretty please? As you know, the festival is expensive to run. We want to bring you more outdoor movies and more pop up screenings. We have launched a crowdfunding campaign with a target of £5,000, particularly for an inflatable screen – like this. Once we have […]
By finalist Natalie Ekberg (far left, above) Bath is a beautiful city and any opportunity to visit is a good one, but none of them could possibly top our reason for being there on 9 June 2016. Being one of the ‘final five’ writers nominated for the IMDb Script to Screen Award 2016, would no […]
By John Metcalfe (far right above) whose script, Bicycle, which he co-wrote with Edward Hicks, was a finalist for the 2016 IMDB Script to Screen Award. The old adage: ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’ could have been written with me in mind. Having written my first spec script at the age […]
The F-Rating launched at Bath Film Festival in 2014 and has been building momentum ever since. Here are just some of the articles, videos, radio interviews and partners of the rating. For more information, contact Holly Tarquini hello@bathfilmfestival.org.uk The F-Rating on Wikipedia From 2016 In The Irish Examiner Holly Tarquini on TodayFM From 2015 Holly […]
Deadline for applicaitons: June 3rd Our wonderful Finance Trustee, Sophie Arden, is leaving the festival after 6 years of loyal work for the board. We are therefore looking for a new Finance Trustee/Company Financial Director. This is an unpaid role. About Bath Film… Production of an annual film festival in Bath for over 25 years – […]
Former Head of International at Sky Pictures, Capitol Films Development Executive and Paramount Pictures story editor, Valencia Haynes is offering feedback on the your scripts. Valencia is offering to read your script and give you feedback before officially submitting to the 2016 IMDb Script to Screen Award for evaluation and selection. The purpose of this […]
After winning the IMDb Script to Screen Award back in 2012 and getting its premiere at the Bath Film Festival, Pussy Cat went on to tour the international film festival circuit and was screened at locations across the world, including LA, London and Cannes, and won Best Film as Voted for by the Audience at […]
The 2nd year of Bath Film Festival’s FilmScore came to a triumphant climax on Thursday March 24th at Komedia in Bath. An audience of over 100 people attended the Grand Final, while a panel of outstanding industry judges watched the 6 shortlisted finalists, and decided which of them should win the prizes. FilmScore 2016 was […]
[Image shows Oli standing in for the 2015 IMDb Award winner, accepting award from Col Needham, CEO of IMDb] I can trace my experience with Bath Film Festival back to an exact moment in October 2014. Sat in a Film and Screen Studies lecture as a fresher, listening to someone not much older than myself […]
