Welcome to this Screening Guide page for the English Riviera Film Festival 10th Anniversary Screening on Saturday 10th May at Torquay Museum’s Pengelly Hall.
Ticket Pricing
Screening 1 £6 – Screening 2 and 3 £6 Or Book the Supersaver to stay all day for £8
https://torquaymuseum.org/events/view/english-riviera-film-festival-10th-anniversary-screening
Documentary 11am to 12pm Screening 1
Alone Across the Gola 20.00min
Director Jude Kriwald
Alone Across Gola is the true story of one man’s voyage through the African jungle, where a bicycle, a tent, and a forgotten track lead him to confront the pieces of himself he’s left behind
Recovering the rainforest 10.59min
Director Chris Smith
Precious, beautiful, full of life and refuge for wildlife: Rainforests are here in the UK. Isolated pockets of temperate rainforest covers parts of Scotland, North West England, Wales and the South West. Discover the temperate rainforest’s past, present and our hopes for its future.
Memory 3.23min
Director Riyadh Haque
An experimental documentary reimagining the childhood recollections of a Jersey inhabitant, Margaret, through the intimate lens of the director’s British South Asian background by channeling his own family’s generational diasporic experience and sisterhood. The cast is comprised of the director’s own family reconstructing Margaret’s memories on 16mm Kodak film
King Putt 23.56min
Director Hansel Rodrigues
In the world of competitive crazy golf, the courses are small but the personalities are big. Enter Marc ‘The Force’ Chapman, an Olympic reject whose pursuit of sporting success turns many in the close-knit crazy-golf community against him. With a shot at sporting immortality on the line, this is much more than a family day out.
A Place we called west 1.37min
Director Winston Tjia
An immigrant finding solace in his new home. Reminiscing the stories his grandfather told him during his time as a trader.
Screening 2 – Animation + UK Shorts 1pm to 2.10pm
Undertow 2.39min
Director Justin Taylor
Margaret takes the train into the city, as she does every morning, plunging herself into a sea of commuters, memories, & anxiety.
Myth of the cave 3.40min
Director Corin Astles
A child enters a cave to complete a sacred ritual and must learn to face the shadows that lie within.
Muffle My Beautiful Autistic Mind 1.19min
Animation Producers with Nigel Smith
What will you find in the underground female autistic world?
The Virus 3.55min
Director Caroline Fawell
The Virus is about what it felt like to be trapped in the house during covid lockdowns, quietly climbing the walls, with a humorous twist.
Fairground Fever 6.24min
Director Linda Hughes
A hand-drawn animated film, in which three teenagers visit the Links Market (the annual fair that comes to Kirkcaldy each April). One goes on a strange, visually exciting journey, coming out the other end and back to reality.
The Last Gunfight…yet! 3.00min
Director Pablo Tréhin-Marçot
The Far West, its merciless universe, its heroes from another time… Main Street under a blazing sun. Two creatures face off in a duel under the wide-eyed gaze of bystanders and of the sheriff. It’s the last gunfight… yet!
The Hag Stone 9.43min
Director Marie Macneill
A beach café-owner with no customers has a change of luck when she gets to know a local forager who is looking for hag stones. Is it down to magic or friendship that the beach café begins to attract custom?
Burnt Offering 11.31min
Director Deborah Cordon
When an unexpected guest turns up for Sunday lunch, what could possibly go wrong?
The Visit 10.55min
Director Parmjit Kaur Gill
A mysterious woman watches a mother and her young daughter’s easy companionship, but there’s something out of time and place about her presence…
Blending fantasy and reality, THE VISIT is a multilayered mix of memory and dream, cinematically linking two women’s shared experience of loss and love.
Existing simultaneously within the past and present, it’s a poignant, life affirming story.
Poisoned honey 7.49min
Director Kate Stubbs
Julia’s cosy life is disturbed by a friendly phone call. Stealthily a web of lies form a net around her, distorting her reason, resurfacing past traumas and forcing her to take a ride to a seaside town.
Moon Peter 8.59min
Directors Charlie Mulliner and James Gillingham
Danni, a thirty-something woman who lives on her own, is struggling to make sense of a world in which she’s the only person who seems not to know exactly how she should be living her life. Her only solace is “just a kids’ book” but maybe in childish things there are adult truths.
2.30pm break
3.00pm Screening 3 – UK and International Shorts
The Barn 20.00min
Director Jonathan Paul Brooker, Chichester Filmmakers
A girl dressed in 16th century garb is discovered asleep in a darkened farm barn. Adopted by the farmer and his family, the girl begins to notice something strange. She doesn’t appear to get older! Upon the death of her adopted parents, she is driven from the village. Some years later she is discovered again in a barn, but in a different era. She doesn’t remember her life before, but some years later she is again driven by scared and angry villagers from her home. Questions begin to creep into her life!!!
Fiabexit 19.53min
Director Lorenzo Giovenga
We too have the right to dream
The Player 11.34min
Director Daniel Yanik
An unsuccessful street musician discovers a miraculous melody in a slot machine that propels him to rapid fame. However, there’s a catch…
TBC Premiere
4.30PM