The world comes to Torbay for the 4th English Riviera Film Festival  ( Photo Highlights of 2018  Film Festival  the Biggest Festival yet !! ) 

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The English Riviera’s very own film festival  was back for it’s forth year in 2018  – and attracting the international attention of producers and directors from around the world. The introduction of the English Riviera Film Awards have brought a new dimension to the festival, with last year’s event seeing winners from Canada and Japan and representatives from Italy attending the awards ceremony.

The festival’s Director, John Tomkins, coordinates the festival with a small team of volunteers. He is coordinating the big festival opening day at the Palace Theatre, but stresses that the festival wouldn’t exist without the participation of other venues such as Torquay Museum, Artisan Gallery, The Blue Walnut Cafe and The Lucky Seven Club.

“Each venue brings something unique to the festival, adding depth and variety of content to create a broad based arts festival. We’ve got multi-media artist Lee Fletcher bringing his photographic exhibition to Artizan Gallery, whilst spoken word artists Samantha Boarer and Robert Garnham will be joining forces with film animator Jamie Harry Scrutton in their Big Poetry event at The Blue Walnut. We’ve also got a great talk by Dr Kevin Dixon uncovering the surprising history of Torbay as a film and television location and children’s fancy dress mask and puppet making workshops at Torquay Museum.”

Film highlights at the 2018  festival included:

• The second English Riviera Film Awards taking place at The Palace Theatre, with films submitted from across the globe vying for nomination.

• The long-awaited full screening of Ashley Thorpe’s acclaimed live action and animation feature Borley Rectory starring Reece Shearsmith and Julian Sands.

• John Tomkins’ latest short, Beard Envy, fresh from festival success in New York.

• Of particular interest to anyone interested in local history is writer Chris Robillard’s War Stories, comprising interviews with local heroes involved in great escapades and acts of courage during the second world war, recently featured on he BBC and national press.
• Squircle Arts, Emberlense Productions & Torquay Museum are proud to invite you to the World Premiere of a new Spanish Flu Documentary which was made by young film makers (aged 11 to 16 years old) on the first Documentary workshop for young people at Torquay Museum.
• The premiere of a film from Los Angeles based film director Ra Dreyfus produced working with South Devon College film students  ( Event taken place in  date TBC)

 

Please take a look around the website with highlights from the last few years of the festival,  especially the  new Media Page with Photos and behind the scenes videos . 

Photos Above from the 2016 Festival

Launch Video of the 2017 Festival

 

Highlights of the 2016 Festival’s Celebrating Devon Film Day