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Interview: Dotty Delightful, Before The Flood

Interview: Dotty Delightful, Before The Flood

altB's Clancy Mason catches up with Dotty Delightful who talks to us about the special screening of Before The Flood. CM: Tell us about the film you are screening? DD: Before the Flood is the film from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, environmental activist and U.N. Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio. Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we as individuals and as a society can take to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet. The film follows…
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Interview: Catherine Mugonyi Director of the Winter Gardens Film Festival

Interview: Catherine Mugonyi Director of the Winter Gardens Film Festival

  altB's Clancy Mason caught up with Winter Gardens Film Festival Director, Catherine Mugonyi to find out more about  what is happening this weekend: CMa: Tell us a little bit about your background? How did you get to the point where you are now directing a film festival? CMu: I've run a Blackpool-based neighbourhood cinema group called Pop-up Picturehouse for the last 5 years and it's been a fascinating journey. I found out that there are plenty of people living locally who enjoy independent and classic film yet struggle to find places to see it outside of their homes. The group…
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Season of Independent Cinema at Stanley Park

Season of Independent Cinema at Stanley Park

There is good news and bad news for fans of award winning independent cinema in the Blackpool area. The good news is that following support from Film Hub North West Central the sparky bunch at Aunty Social have arranged a season of screenings at Stanley Park Visitor Centre. The bad news is if you didn’t know about this already is the first film in the July-September season has been and gone. But don’t despair, there are still five other events to get yourself to. On 4 August at 7pm the LGBT drama Tangerine (Certificate 15) is showing at 7pm. Tangerine…
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Star Trek Film Festival enters town at warp speed

Star Trek Film Festival enters town at warp speed

Whether you are a long in the jaw devotee of Star Trek raised on a diet of classic, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or a newer entry to the Trek universe through the recent dizzyingly paced JJ Abrams films, Blackpool's Opera House in the wonderful Winter Gardens has a treat lined up for you from next Sunday. I'm going to avoid all Star Trek related puns in this preview as the news of a Star Trek film festival in Blackpool deserves a little more respect than that. From Sunday 24 to the 30 of July the Opera House will be…
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Winter Gardens Film Festival back for 2017

Winter Gardens Film Festival back for 2017

The Winter Gardens Film Festival will return in February 2017, promising to brighten the month with an eclectic selection of modern and classic black-and-white films. However, if you’re not content merely to watch movies, but also dream of seeing your own short film screened at the festival, keep reading, as the festival’s organisers have announced a competition that gives budding film makers a chance to make that dream a reality. The festival is scheduled to take place on Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th February 2017 at the Winter Gardens (where else?). The full lineup will be announced over…
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Preview: Sing along West Side Story

Preview: Sing along West Side Story

2016 is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death and you will probably have noticed a number of events and broadcasts to mark this special occasion.  Indeed, we've had a variety of local events and performances as part of the Fylde Coast Shakespeare Festival.  This May, you can continue celebrating Shakespeare's work by joining Aunty Social for a special sing along screening of West Side Story. Winner of ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this electrifying musical sets the timeless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in steamy New York. People from across the Fylde coast are invited to witness this tragic and…
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Winter Gardens Film Festival 2016 preview

Winter Gardens Film Festival 2016 preview

With less than a week to go until the first Winter Gardens Film Festival, altblackpool takes a look at the hot tickets at this new weekend event. The Winter Gardens Film Festival is a new event that brings the best of modern and classic black and white film to the spectacular historical setting of the Blackpool Winter Gardens. The main screenings will take place in the magnificent Opera House, which was opened by Jessie Matthews and Sonny Hale in 1939 as one of the most luxurious and sophisticated combination theatres and super cinemas of the pre-war period. There will also be screenings…
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Fylde Film Society

This year sees the Fylde Film Society embark on its 67th season. Formed in 1948 as Lytham St Annes Film Society, with the sponsorship of the Royal Air Forces Association, it screened its first film, Mr Deeds Goes to Town using a 16mm projector at the Ansdell Institute. Membership for the first season, which comprised 13 films, was 15 shillings. The slogan for the society was ‘The Study and Advancement of Film Art’  and that first season set the tone for the society by screening films from across the world, often accompanied by short films. The society flourished and in 1951 it…
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