Welcome to minifest 06!
After the huge success of last year's Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick is once again playing host to a celebration of the best in innovative and exciting independent cinema, short film and artists' film and video. Plans are already underway for our next major biennial event in September 07 but, if you can't wait that long, this year's minifest is a three-day taster of what is to come. Prepare to be stimulated, challenged, provoked and entertained.
Programme
Friday 01 December
The Maltings Arts Centre19:00 Opening Film Bobby
Director: Emilio Estevez / USA / 2006 / 120 mins (Suggested cert. 18)
Saturday 02 December
The Maltings Arts Centre14:30 Desperate Optimists - Civic Life Series
A series of seven short films by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor
17:30 The Navigator
Director: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp / USA / 1924 / 60 mins (No cert.)
20:30 Little White Lies
Director: Caradog W James / UK / 2006 / 86 mins (Cert. 18)
11:00 - 16:00 Berwick Gymnasium Gallery Showcase
Launch: 12:00 - 14:00
Sunday 03 December
The Maltings Arts Centre14:30 Stop! Look! Listen!
90 mins approx (No cert.)
17:30 Black Sun
Director: Gary Tarn / UK / 2005 / 70 mins (No cert.)
20:30 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
Director: Ben Hopkins/ UK / 2006 / 87 mins (Suggested cert. PG)
11:00 - 16:00 Berwick Gymnasium Gallery Showcase
Moving Images
An exhibition to coincide with Minifest 06 will feature the work of two Northeast artists who share a passion for cinema. Drawings, photographs and paintings by Jane McCracken and Nick Holmes will be on show in the Maltings Bar and at the new Space Gallery in Bridge Street throughout the Festival.
www.nickholmesart.co.uk
