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The English Riviera Film Festival has grown from a single day’s event in 2015 to a year-round programme of screening events, workshops, panels and networking, all culminating in the English Riviera International Film Awards. Previous award winners have hailed from the USA, Canada, Italy, Netherlands and Japan and we have been delighted to offer a warm welcome to delegates from across the globe. Films and film makers who have been highlighted at the Festival have gone on to feature on TV and in cinemas internationally.
The 2024 Festival Team
Events
New Date to announced – English Riviera Film Festival 10th Anniversary Screening ( April 2025 )
15th March 2025 – The 2025 English Riviera Film Festival Awards ( The Lyceum Theatre Torquay )
More events planned for 2025…
2024
Wednesday October 30th 2024 – “Through the moving image” films and networking – The projection room Paignton.
Wednesday November 27th 2024 – “Through the moving image” films and networking – The projection room Paignton.
Wednesday December 18th 2024 – “Through the moving image” films and networking – The projection room Paignton.
On this page below you can find out about the Festival’s past events and award screenings from 2015 to 2023.
2023
November 2023
“An afternoon with Internationally Best Selling Author Philip Reeve ” at Torquay Museum.
Showing of Philip’s New film as Director ‘Gwenevere’ and a Q and A with the author / book signing.
Series 2 of the English Riviera Film Festival Show – see all the episodes on the Film Show page of this site
2021 Festival November 1st to 6th 2021
Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd
Animation at the Artizan Gallery
Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th
Officially Selected films at the Artizan Gallery
Friday 5th
The Legend Plays on Premiere at the Torquay Museum
Saturday 6th
The 2021 International ERFF Film Awards Screening and Ceremony at South Devon Colleges High Tech and Digital Centre Cinema
2020 ( Online – Due to lockdown – Covid )
Festival 23rd to 28th November 2020
Monday
7PM : Film Premiere : Grey Seal – Wild Swim ( Facebook )
8pm : Feature Film Director’s Panel ( Facebook – You Tube )
9.20PM : Torn ( Feature Film ) Introduction by the Films Director Justin Carter ( Facebook – you tube )
Tuesday
7pm : Women in film Panel ( Facebook )
8.30pM : Samsura ( Directed by Lucy Townsend ) ( Facebook – you tube )
Wednesday
8pm : The Ballad of Lucy Sands Crew Panel ( Facebook)
9pm : A Campfire tale ( Ted Hutchings and Ben Tallamy ) ( You Tube )
Thursday
8pm : Alien Outbreak Panel ( Facebook)
9pm : Last Orders Exclusive trailer Premiere and Award Winning Short Film Flies ( Facebook – Vimeo )
Friday
8pm: The Ballad of Lucy Sands Crew Panel
Saturday
11am to 5.30pm : Main Awards Day Live Stream Film screening and Awards Ceremony
2019 Festival 2nd to 12th October 2019
Tuesday 01 October (6.30pm to 8.30pm )
Artizan Gallery, Lucius Street, Torquay
Action, Cut, That’s a Wrap!
Lionel Digby – 35 years of film, television and theatre costumery
Saturday 05 October from 10.00
Torquay Museum, 529 Babbacombe Rd, Torquay TQ1 1HG
Classic Crime Film Feast
10.00 Mildred Pierce
12.10 North by Northwest
14.45 The Third Man
Sunday 06 October2019 at 14.00
Torquay Museum, 529 Babbacombe Rd, Torquay TQ1 1HG
The Witch’s Mask
A Film Festival premiere
The Spark Studio film Premiere ( made by Young People on a film production course )
Saturday October 5th 10.30am – 1.30pm
PUPPET THEATRE WORKSHOP ( Torre Abbey )
Join us for a morning of puppet theatre creation.
Friday 11th October at 19.00 (screening at 20.00 prompt)
The Blue Walnut café -bar and Cinema, Walnut Rd, Torquay TQ2 6HS
Last Holiday
The English Riviera as film location
Saturday 12th October 10am to 6.30am : International Awards Day
South Devon College High Tech and Digital Centre
Film screenings and awards . Demonstrations and displays from Odd Planet Films , Dark Light Films , The Ballad of Lucy Sands, Equity , Torre Abbey , Torquay Museum and the Seal Project
2018 Festival October 27th to 8th November 2018
Saturday October 27th 2018 Festival Launch day
Palace Theatre Paignton
Borley Rectory Feature Film
English Riviera From Above
Awards Screening and Ceremony
Sunday October 28th to Wednesday October 31st
Artizan Gallery Torquay
Lee Fletcher Photo Exhibition
Thursday November 1st
Artizan Gallery Torquay
Kevin Dixon : Torbay at the Movies
Saturday November 3rd
Torquay Museum
Join Squircle Arts for a day of activities celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead at Torquay Museum as part of the English Riviera Film Festival.
Wednesday November 7th
Torquay Museum
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.
Thursday November 8th
The Blue Walnut Torquay
An evening with Spoken word poet and animator Jamie Harry Scrutton.
2017 Festival Monday 12th to Saturday 17th June
Monday June 12th
Paignton Picture House Guided Tour
Tuesday June 12th
Brixham the Edge
Film Premiere : Brixham Memories
Wednesday June 14th
The Blue Walnut Torquay
That Summer ( 1979 ) Feature Film
Thursday June 15th
Cockington Court Torquay
Q and A – Diana and Lucy Townsend ( Film Producer – Director )
Q and A – Ashley Thorpe ( Film Director )
Friday June 16th
The Blue Walnut Torquay
Bulldog Drummond at bay ( 1937 ) Feature film
Still ERFF 2016 -2017
Saturday June 17th
Riviera Centre Torquay
Main Awards Day – Screening room and Interactive film making room
Including
Riviera Fm Live from the vent and interviews with the film makers
Simon Tytherleigh – Stop Motion Animation Rig Demonstration http://oddplanetstudios.co.uk/
Honest Tommy – Sci-fi show -props and promotion
Film Props form Lionel Digby and Curiosity Cabinet Studios
PQA Torbay Film Showing and table
Equity Devon and Cornwall Branch
Mike Alford Film and TV Photography https://www.facebook.com/Mike-Alsford-Photography-418366661874013/
Lensboi Lenses Hire
Up and away vision Drones
Boo to a goose theatre https://www.facebook.com/bootoagoosetheatre
Alexis Kirke Film Music http://www.alexiskirke.com/
2016 Festival 15th to 20th August 2016
Monday August 15th
Artizan Gallery, Torquay
Art Talk with John Tomkins ( Film Making in the English Riviera )
Tuesday August 16th
Torquay Library
A life in Cinema John Mann
Wednsday August 17th
The Blue Walnut Torquay
The System ( Feature Film )
Thursday August 18th
Torquay Library
The Battle of the Somme
Saturday August 20th
Torbay Hotel
Celebration of Devon Film Day : Film Screenings , Q and A’s and interactive film stands
Screenings and Q and A’s with Devon Film Makers
Full programme
10.30 : Film : Eyes in the dark (Director Alex White)
10.40 : Trailer previews of forthcoming Devon films
10.50 : Festival highlights 2015 (Interviews and highlights from last year’s film festival)
11:00 : Mordred Q &A / Talk: Meet the Director, Producer and stars of the forthcoming feature film from the South Devon Players Theatre and Film Company
11:30 : Director Dom Lee Q &A (The Award winning Director answers questions about this past and forthcoming productions)
11:50 : Film Premiere : To My Dear Son (Director Louis John Brzozka Q & A)
12:00 Devon’s Best Film Selection
Ashui (Director Harry Willmott)
Time to talk (Director John Fitzsimmons)
Delays Imminent (Director James Cotter)
Tempus Verum (Director Dean Ferris)
12:30 : Portent (Director Justin Carter)
Sometimes it’s fate (Director Ellie Gath)
Hiraeth (Director Jacob Roy Filmed and edited by Ed Chappell)
13:00 : Laura Harvey (Make up and Prop maker Curiosity Cabinet Studios) Q & A
13.20 : Film : Two Feet Tall (Director Andy Robinson)
13:30pm : Film : The Sanatorium ( Film Preview ) Q & A with the Director Julian Kemp
14.00 Location Devon
Home (Director Danny Cooke)
Dartmoor search and rescue (Director Jade Dyer)
Film in the Bay (South West Creatives)
Plymouth in minutes (Director Julian Kemp)
Love Where you live (Director Dan Wiseman)
Film Premiere : To you , we surrender (Director Benjamin Akira Tallamy)
14:30pm : Director / Animator Ashley Thorpe : Q & A with preview of footage from his forthcoming film Borley Rectory starring Reece Shearsmith
Film : Old Lych Way (co Director Keith Rossiter with Q & A with Keith Rossiter after the film)
15.30 Comedy & Quirky
Education (Director Ashley Hooper)
Fireworks (Director Justin Carter)
Gone Fishin’ (Director O’Shea & O’Gaukroger)
Film Premiere : Professor in the bathroom (Director John Tomkins)
16:00pm Feature film Producer : Diana Townsend Q & A with film preview
16:30pm Award Winning Director Luke Jeffery ( Seeing Red : Hell’s Bells ) Q & A
In the lobby
Film Costume Displays from Annushka Rogers
Props and Costume Displays from The Bloo Pixie
Props from Feature film Scarey Crows
Meet some of the Cast and Crew from forth coming film The Graveyard Shift
FX Make up Demonstrations and Props from Curiosity Cabinet Studios (Laura Harvey)
Promoting Devon Film Tables (Information on forthcoming productions)
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2015 Festival August 29th
The first Festival was instigated by Film Maker John Tomkins as a way of showcasing film makers form across the South West to a wider audience. Supporting John was a an amazing volunteer film makers . John continues to this day as the Director ( creative Director the festival ) supported by a great Festival team.
Saturday August 29th 2015
Torbay Hotel
Celebrating devon Film Day ( Part of the Riviera Fringe Festival )
Films shown
Film maker interviews in the entrance .
