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BArnes film festival

27-29 SEPTEMBER 2019

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“People today have access to unprecedented ways of making movies, yet that is still no substitute to learning about film within a community of equally passionate people under the mentorship of people who can guide their enthusiasm.”

Alfonso Cuaron, Academy Award Winning Director

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“The Barnes Film Festival has gathered real momentum over the past four years. They have a distinctive vision, and the festival itself has a great atmosphere. I am proud to be supporting it.” 

Daniel Battsek, Director, Film4

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“It's such a great platform offered to aspiring film makers and creators, which reaps so many benefits. You can hoan your craft and collaborate with other individuals who are equally passionate and eager to develop and expand their ideas.” 

Lauren McCrostie, Actress

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“Barnes Film Festival gives you a platform to show your work as well as access to be inspired by other people’s work. Film Festivals are about relationships and meeting people and forming personal working relationships as much as appreciating the final product.“

George Mackay, Actor

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Oscar and BAFTA award winning film & television producer Finola Dwyer will also be on our female only panel (to book tickets link in bio) She runs Wildgaze Films, one of the UK's leading independent film production companies, with her producing partner Amanda Posey. Her current film, Dirt Music, stars Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund and David Wenham, and is directed by Gregor Jordan. Her recent productions include Our Souls At Night, a film for Netflix co-produced with Robert Redford’s Wildwood Enterprises. Directed by Ritesh Batra based on Kent Haruf’s beloved novel, the film stars Redford and Jane Fonda and received its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September 2017. She is also an executive producer on VS., a rap battle premiered at the London Film Festival in October 2018, followed by an Altitude release across the UK. The film was co-written and directed by Ed Lilly, and co-financed by BBC Films. Their Finest was released in April 2017 by Lionsgate and starred Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin. Brooklyn, released late 2015, was a critical and box office success, taking $63m worldwide. It was nominated for three Oscars® (Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay) and six BAFTAs, winning the Outstanding British Film BAFTA. Based on Colm Toibin’s award-winning novel, adapted for the screen by Nick Hornby and directed by John Crowley, the film starred Saoirse Ronan with Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent. Finola’s producer credits include feature documentary My Nazi Legacy; Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet; An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig and starring Carey Mulligan in her breakout role; A Long Way Down, based on Nick Hornby’s book directed by Pascal Chaumeil; BAFTA-winning Tsunami: The Aftermath by Abi Morgan, directed by Bharat Nalluri; Stephen Woolley's feature debut Stoned; Antonia Bird's EMMY-nominated The Hamburg Cell; Sandra Goldbacher's award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Me Without You, starring Michelle Williams and Anna Friel; Chris Menges' The Lost Son; Stephan Elliott's cult favourite Welcome to Woop Woop; and Iain Softley's BAFTA-winning debut Backbeat.
Going on sale tomorrow, our second event in the lead up to our 4th annual festival. In partnership with @olympicstudios we will be hosting the following on the 6th March 6-8pm: IN CONVERSATION: FEMALE FILMMAKERS TALK THE FUTURE OF FILM In the run up to International Women’s Day, please join award winning film makers, including producer/director Rebecca Frayn (The Lady, Misbehaviour) Finola Dwyer, (Brookyn, An Education, Our Souls in the Night) and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience, Colette) in an all women panel discussion about the future of film, chaired by writer Charlotte Bogard Macleod. The film industry has always discussed the importance of female filmmakers. Now the conversation is louder than ever. But is this conversation just chatter, or producing real results? Please join us, and be part of the debate. Tickets available Wednesday, however to avoid disappointment (the last event sold out in 48 hours) sign up to our newsletter via our brand new website to enable early booking. #barnesfilmfestival2019 #femalefilmmakers #internationalwomensday2019 Lead sponsor @theeuropeannaturetrust
Going on sale tomorrow, our second event in the lead up to our 4th annual festival. In partnership with @olympicstudios we will be hosting the following on the 6th March 6-8pm: IN CONVERSATION: FEMALE FILMMAKERS TALK THE FUTURE OF FILM In the run up to International Women’s Day, please join award winning film makers, including producer/director Rebecca Frayn (The Lady, Misbehaviour) Finola Dwyer, (Brookyn, An Education, Our Souls in the Night) and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience, Colette) in an all women panel discussion about the future of film, chaired by writer Charlotte Bogard Macleod. The film industry has always discussed the importance of female filmmakers. Now the conversation is louder than ever. But is this conversation just chatter, or producing real results? Please join us, and be part of the debate. Tickets available Wednesday, however to avoid disappointment (the last event sold out in 48 hours) sign up to our newsletter via our brand new website to enable early booking. #barnesfilmfestival2019 #femalefilmmakers #internationalwomensday2019 Lead sponsor @theeuropeannaturetrust
Another addition to our fantastic female only panel discussion on 6th March (tickets on sale Wednesday via @olympicstudios website) Rebecca Frayn is a critically acclaimed novelist, screen-writer and director. Her screenplay Misbehaviour about the Miss World demonstrations in 1970, directed by Phillippa Lowthorpe and starring Kiera Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville, Rhys Ifans and Keeley Haws is released at the end of the year. As a director, Rebecca’s documentaries have covered a wide range of subjects from Tory wives, to a mental asylum being converted into luxury apartments to identical twins for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. Many of her projects have championed women’s stories and include Killing Me Softly, a screenplay about domestic violence for the BBC, Whose Baby? a television drama she directed for ITV about fathers rights and a screenplay about Aung San Suu Kyi, The Lady, a feature film which won the International Human Rights Film Award in cooperation with Amnesty International in International in 2012. She has originated and written a feature film called Misbehaviour which is currently in post production to be released in the autumn. Set in 1970 and celebrating the post Me Too zeitgeist, Misbehaviour will tell the story of a year of social revolution in which the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement put themselves firmly on the map by declaring Miss World show a cattle market and flour bombing Bob Hope the host on live tv watched by 24 million people around the world. The film is currently in post production and stars Kiera Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville, Rhys Ifans and Keeley Haws and is directed by Philippa Lowthorpe (two times BAFTA winner).

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