Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has teamed up once again with Berwick Youth Project to further open up the film world to young people in Berwick-upon-Tweed and the surrounding area. As an addition to the youth project’s regular film club, the Festival and the Youth Project are inviting everyone between the age of 13 and 19 to come along to the Beehive on Golden Square, Berwick on Thursday 10th May from 6-9pm for a taster session of ‘Film Night’ to find out how they can ...

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and the North East Photography Network join forces to launch a call for proposals for a new artist commission Together with the North East Photography Network, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival today launches its call for proposals for a new commission as part of the 2012 Festival. The two have joined in partnership for this year to celebrate the Festival’s 2012 theme ‘Pictures In Motion,’ which explores the relationship betwee ...

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Winner of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival’s Chris Anderson Award last year, Mark Boston, is delighted to be screening his award-winning animation at Leeds Young People’s Film Festival on 2nd April. Marks film, Brian & Brian’s Amazing Eggventure Parts I, II & III, was considered the winner of Berwick Film Festival’s annual young filmmakers award on account of it’s real flair for imagination, resourcefulness and originality. The Jury was comprised o ...

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The Festival is now open for entries in line with its chosen theme for this year – Pictures In Motion - and is welcoming moving image works of all types  - narrative and artist video, live action and animation, fiction and documentary, and from all over the world, within this theme.   Each year, the Festival is curated thematically, and this year we focus on the relationship between the still and the moving image. Entitled Pictures in Motion, the programme will feature work tha ...

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Following the huge success of last September’s event, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival announces their dates for 2012; Wednesday 19th – Sunday 23rd September. Now in its 8th year, the Festival returns for its annual celebration of the art of film – illuminating the whole town through premiere screenings, interactive installations and specially commissioned projections. The Theme This year’s Festival – entitled Pictures in Motion - explores the rel ...

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The 7th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival got off to the best possible start with an incredibly well-received Opening Gala, starting with a welcome from Chair of the Board Huw Davies, an introduction to the programme from Director Melanie Iredale, and a few words from Councillor Alan Bowlas who has attended each of the previous six editions, and declared the 7th Festival officially open. The opening film marked the world premiere for UK-Iranian production I Am Nasrine, as well as the Festi ...

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Berwick-upon-Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival Once Upon a Time: Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September Once Upon a Time… begins this week! This week marks the opening of the 7th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, with an enchanting programme of film screenings, artists’ moving image installations, artist talks and hands-on activity as part of it’s Once Upon a Time programme. The Festival begins with the switch on of the Artist Trail at 11am – a series of vide ...

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Berwick-upon-Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival Once Upon a Time: Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September Last year Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival programme offered more than ever before for children, young people and their families. This year the festival has surpassed itself again with a yet more packed programme for those audiences! Despite the official Opening Gala not being until 7pm on Friday 23rd September, the Festival actually opens with a private screening of a new Moomins ...

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With three weeks to go til the 7th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, the countdown begins! The event offers a range of feature film screenings, short film programmes, and video installations, opening with the World Premiere of regionally co-produced drama I Am Nasrine, and culminating with a live event, showing The Blue Bird from 1918, with accompaniment from the Compton Organ. The Festival has always been a commissioning one, producing work such as The Keystone Cut Ups by People Like Us ...

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Berwick-upon-Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival Once Upon a Time: Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival reveals a magical programme! The 7th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is set to return, celebrating the art of film over one action-packed weekend, Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th Sep. Using Berwick-upon-Tweed as the perfect setting, and The Maltings Theatre & Cinema as a hub, the Festival invites you to join the adventure in various locations ac ...

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2011: Once Upon a Time Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th September Introduction: Welcome to the land of make-believe and to the 7th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, where we return to celebrate the art of film over one action-packed weekend, Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th September.?? Using Berwick-upon-Tweed as a unique backdrop, and The Maltings Theatre & Cinema as a hub, we invite you to join the adventure in various locations across the town, wit ...

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Berwick-upon-Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival Once Upon a Time Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September 2011 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival announces its opening film, and it’s a World Premiere! Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival returns the weekend starting Friday 23rd September, and is delighted to announce its Opening Night Film: the World Premiere of I Am Nasrine – a “love song to the North East.” Directed by Iranian-American filmmaker Tina Gharavi a ...

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Announcement of a Festival highlight: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival invites you to its very own Mad Hatters Tea Party! Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival returns for a seventh time to celebrate the art of film in Berwick-upon-Tweed over one action packed weekend, Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th September. Once Upon A Time…. This year the programme ventures into the realms of make-believe, exploring the enchantment – and the dark side – of the fairy tale on f ...

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Last year over 40 volunteers of all ages helped to create the most successful Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival to date, showcasing the best in contemporary film and visual arts in unique historical locations around the town. Volunteers are crucial to the success of the Festival - informing the public about events, stewarding, helping set up the equipment, promoting activities and creating a fun and enjoyable atmosphere in Berwick-upon-Tweed! The Festival team are keen to ensure that ever ...

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is now open for proposals from artists working in the field of dance and film, welcoming ideas for a live performance incorporating movement both on screen and on stage. Entitled Once Upon a Time, this year’s Festival will explore the enchantment of folklore and fairy tale on film through a series of moving image screenings, projections, installations and new commissions. The Festival is currently seeking moving image works of all kinds as part of it ...

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival offers even more opportunities to get involved! Last year Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival offered more screenings, workshops and hands-on activity than ever before, giving hundreds of local children, young people and families the opportunity to really get involved – and this year the Festival is offering even more! Film Nights at the Bee Hive Café Once again the Festival team have teamed up with Berwick Youth Project to open up t ...

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival are delighted to confirm today that Arts Council England have committed their financial support for the artistic programme and new commissions as part of the forthcoming Festival; Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September. Last year’s edition was the most successful to date, attracting over 6,000 people to the border town over a 5-day period. Berwick-upon-Tweed was once again illuminated, with 50 individual screenings and events, and 6 new commissions ...

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival are over the moon after this morning’s announcement that their bid to the Arts Council for funding over three years, 2012 – 2015, has been successful. The Festival has had the support of Arts Council England through the Grants for the Arts fund in the past, but is announced today as one of only 110 newcomers to the portfolio funding scheme nationally, and one of only 10 in the region. The company will receive £150,000 over the three-ye ...

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is delighted to announce that it has been short-listed for a Journal Culture Award in the ‘Best Event Northumberland’ category. The Awards, which take place on 28th March, seek to celebrate cultural and creative events in the region. Last year’s Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, entitled Stagings, ran in September 2010, with a range of films, video installations, performances, and commissions in various different locations across ...

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The 6th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has just come to an end and has been hailed a huge success. With the theme of Stagings it explored the role of the screen as a stage, turning Berwick itself into a platform for screening, projecting and staging the moving image. The programme featured five action packed days of film and moving image art from home and abroad and established the Festival as a truly international celebration of the moving image. Over 5,000 people attended over 50 film ...

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We are very please to announce the the winner of the Chris Anderson Award 2010, as decided on Sunday 19th September by a panel of judges, is The Pirate & The Mermaid, a film which has screened at film fests all over the UK but which was actually made in the region. The Chris Anderson Award was launched in 2007 to encourage young people involved in filmmaking and to identify promising new talent. The competition is open to under-19’s from across the North East and commemorates the life ...

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All the world’s a stage – so said Shakespeare. This will certainly be the case in Berwick-upon-Tweed this September, as the border town’s Film & Media Arts Festival spills out into the streets, bringing an international exhibition of filmic artworks to some of Berwick’s most historic and unusual buildings and landmarks. The Town Hall Prison Cells, The Black Hole at Berwick’s Main Guard and Coxon’s Tower will be among the diverse array of venues that will ...

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  Action-packed programme unveiled for Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2010 15 – 19 September, 2010 Berwick-upon-Tweed http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/ It’s curtain-up on the programme for the 6th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival – five action-packed days of film and video art from home and abroad, showcasing a number of UK premieres and specially-commissioned pieces. This truly international celebration of the moving image will be staged f ...

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 10 15 – 19 September, 2010 Berwick-upon-Tweed http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/ Festival listings Wednesday 15 September, 7pm: Opening Gala – The Keystone Cut Ups (sugg. 12), 90 mins, The Maltings Theatre, £7 / £6. Thursday 16 September, 10am-5pm: Workshop – Building a Cultural Business in the Age of Austerity, WorkSpace, £30. 2pm-3pm: Artist talk – Corin Sworn: A Viewing Subject, Shoregate Ice House ...

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  The 6th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has had an unprecedented response to its call out in June for commission proposals for an artist or film-maker to make a new piece of moving image work, and ‘Film Score’ for a musician or composer to write and perform a new soundtrack to an existing film or films of their choice. Organisers were overwhelmed when hundreds of proposals flooded in from the length and breadth of the UK as well from the US, Germany, Italy and other c ...

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This weekend saw the Screen Machine, an 80 seat cinema in a lorry roll into the to the Border towns of Duns, Coldstream and Eyemouth.  The aim of the screen machine was to bring film to the Borders as part of the 6th annual Berwick Film Festival. The festival runs from Wednesday the 15th September to Sunday 19th September 2010.  Says Festival Director Melanie Iredale;  “We have had a fantastic weekend and it has been great to see so many locals turning up to support the s ...

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The 6th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is now open for commission proposals in two categories;  ‘Artists’ Moving Image’ for an artist or film-maker to make a new piece of moving image work, and ‘Film Score’ for a musician or composer to write and perform a new soundtrack to an existing film or films of their choice. Each commission offers a fee of £2,500 to create new works relating to the festival theme, ‘Stagings’. The works wi ...

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The Berwickshire mini fest of films has today released details of what the public can look forward to come July.  The mobile screen machine, an 80-seat modern mobile cinema with a state of the art 3D digital projection and Dolby surround sound will be in the Borders from the 9th to 11th July, moving between Coldstream and Eyemouth and stopping off at Duns in between.  Says Festival Director Melanie Iredale; “We’re really excited about the Screen Machine visiting the Bo ...

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BERWICK Film & Media Arts Festival 10 ANNOUNCES DATES 15 – 19 September, 2010 Berwick upon Tweed http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/ The website goes live today for the 6th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival - a celebration of the art of film, set in the historical border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The main Festival is a biennale, which since its inaugural event in 2005, has taken place in September. During the alternate years, a smaller scale ‘Mini-Fest’ ...

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Visiting a town near you … The Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is aiming to bring surround sound and cinema experience on ’wheels’ to the Borders. The Festival will tour the Screen Machine, an 80-seat mobile cinema. The event is being supported by Scottish Borders Council and Regional Screen Scotland. Duns, Eyemouth and Coldstream will play host to Scotland’s only Screen Machine. Normally located in the Highlands and Islands, this will be one of the first tim ...

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