Winchester Film Festival 2011

Events included:

The Blair Witch Project @ Spinney Hollow (midnight screening)

If... @ Winchester College

The IT Crowd, Snuffbox, Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace, AB/DC - A Rock Opera & Matt Berry Q&A @ The Vault, University of Winchester

The 6 Hour Film Schoot Out Challenge (Workshop) run by City Eye @ University of Winchester

The Rocky Horror Picture Show & Shock Treatment @ Theatre Royal

The Seventh Seal @ Winchester Cathedral

The Lives of Artists, The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years, Bad News Tour & More Bad News @ The Railway Inn

Wind in the Willows, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Erik The Viking & Terry Jones Q&A @ Theatre Royal

Savages @ Avington Park

Witchfinder General & The Wicker Man @ The Chapel, University of Winchester

Zidane, a 21st Centrury Portrait @ The Railway Inn

Strummerville, Punk Attitude & Don Letts Q&A @ Tower Arts Centre

Red Road @ Discovery Centre

Ferris Beullers Day Off & Red Dawn @ The Railway Inn

Zvezda (The Star) & Letyat Zhuravli (The Cranes Are Flying) @ The Vault, University of Winchester

Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Doomsday & Centurion @ Everyman Cinemas

Dirty Pretty Things, Seperate Lies, Slumdog Millionaire @ Everyman Cinemas

Download the 2010 programme here

WFF2010 Competitions

The Future of Film Award was presented at the Festival Launch Ceremony at the University of Winchester on Saturday 5 June. The competition, with an Olympic theme, was open to 14-19 year olds in the Hampshire area. The winner of this competition was Zahara Andrews, from Churcher's College, Petersfield. She awarded a weeks work at Form Films, a Winchester based production company, on one of their upcoming TV projects. She was also given with a goodie bag of prizes which included Avid editing software, DVDs, Books and T-Shirts from HMV and Cinema passes from Everyman Cinemas.

(L-R - Steve Brine (MP for Winchester & Chandlers Ford), Cllr Richard Izard (Mayor of Winchester), Zahara Andrews (winner of Future of Film competition), Lawrence Walford (Creative Director of Form Films), Professor Anthony Dean (Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Winchester), Professor Joy Carter (Vice Chancellor, University of Winchester), Phillipa Atkinson (Commercial Controller, Coast106 FM), Dr Paul Manning (Head of Department, School of Media & Film, University of Winchester)

Matt Berry answering audience questions during his Q&A

Bernard McKenna (left) interviewing Terry Jones as part of the Q&A

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