THE BRIGHTON FILM FESTIVAL
16 NOVEMBER - 3 DECEMBER 2006
FESTIVAL INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the 4th edition of CINECITY and our biggest festival programme yet. CINECITY presents the very best in international cinema and features a global mix of premieres and previews, treasures from the archive, artists' moving image and installations, the latest digital adventures, education events and much more.
CINECITY screens right across Brighton & Hove in all the city's cinemas - Duke of York's, Cineworld, Odeon and Gardner Arts Centre - and in a host of other venues. We have also again created a temporary 'micro-cinema' to further extend the number of screens available during the festival. The Brighton Fringe Basement in the heart of the North Laine is home to a range of screenings and events and is the centrepiece of the artists' moving image programme. For the first time CINECITY expands beyond the borders of Brighton & Hove with a weekend of screenings at the modernist masterpiece the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, the first time films have been seen there on the big screen.
In the NEW FEATURES strand we present a selection of 30 new titles all screening in Brighton for the first time. This is your chance to catch these films before they go on national release and to see others in one-off UK screenings. Several of the screenings will be followed by Q&A's with the filmmakers so please check with the venues for full details.
We open and close the festival with two previews of major and eagerly anticipated titles: BABEL directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal and BLACK BOOK, Paul Verhoeven's World War Two drama.
At the core of its programme each year, CINECITY dedicates a strand to one celluloid city. In 2006 we explore Shanghai, the first great city of the 21st Century, through a diverse selection of moving images including artists' installations, features, documentaries and shorts.
We do hope you enjoy the selection of films on offer. To help you see more of this year's CINECITY there are a number of free screenings and events plus special ticket offers. We are also pleased to welcome Mojo's bar and restaurant as the official CINECITY Festival Club.
CINECITY is presented in partnership with Duke of York's Picturehouse and Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. We acknowledge the invaluable and continuing support we receive from Arts Council England South East, Brighton & Hove City Council, Screen South and the University of Brighton.
CINECITY PODCASTS
For the first time CINECITY will have its own podcast bringing you festival news, interviews and audience reaction to a selection of the films and events on offer.
You can download it FREE to your computer or copy it to your mp3 player for festival information and gossip on the move.
Life is easier if you subscribe to it using a service like iTunes Podcasts. Once you've subscribed then you get each new show as it goes online.
Subscribe to the iTunes podcast here
PODCASTS:
Alternatively, for those who don't have iTunes, or wish to download particular podcasts, please choose from the following:
An Introduction to the Festival with Nick Cave and John Hillcoat
Dave Battcock catches up with two of CINE-CITY's patrons, Nick Cave and John Hillcoat as they flick through this year's festival programme.
An Interview with John Foxx
Founder of Ultravox and pioneer in the use of synthesiser music, John Foxx speaks to Marvin Belle from his editing room, where he's putting the finishing touches to this Saturday's Screening of his new film, Tiny Colour Movies.
Frightfest at CINE-CITY 2006
Marvin Belle speaks with Ian Rattray about Frightfest, about its partnership with CINE-CITY, and what we can expect from their presence at this year's festival, including some special news that's hot off the press.
An Interview with Henry Normal
Executive Producer Henry Normal takes time out to speak with Dave Battcock about his new film Snow Cake (which is showing as part of this year's festival on Friday 24th November at 7.30pm at the Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton), the importance of the short film industry, what advantages it has over the larger industries, and how its successes provide a stable platform for bigger, more expensive productions
CINECITY 2006
CO-DIRECTORS: TIM BROWN AND FRANK GRAY
FESTIVAL PROGRAMMER: TIM BROWN
PROGRAMMING ADVISOR: JASON WOOD
FESTIVAL MANAGERS: NICKY BEAUMONT, SUSANNA SKLEPEK
FUNDRAISING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT:
ROBIN MORLEY robin@robinmorley.co.uk T: 01273 530051
PROJECT MANAGER: GARY BARBER
BRIGHTON SHORTS CO-ORDINATOR: MADELEINE MULLETT
PRESS AND PR MANAGER: LISA GENDALL T: 07717805335
NATIONAL PRESS: CLARE WILFORD T: 020 77290692
PODCASTS: MARVIN BELLE, DAVID BATTCOCK
DESIGN: STUDIOTONNE STUDIO@STUDIOTONNE.COM
FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS; PHILIP HOILE, ROSIE O'CONNOR
CINECITY PATRONS: NICK CAVE, STEVE COOGAN,
JOHN HILLCOAT, HENRY NORMAL
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
MOIRA MCDONAGH, ROBERT BEESON (ARTIFICIAL EYE),
CHRSTIAN (ASAHI BEER), HELEN MEDLAND (BRIGHTON
FRINGE BASEMENT), HILARY DAVIS (BEYOND), CHRISTINE
WHITEHOUSE (BFI), JACKIE BLACKWELL, NICK BROOMFIELD,
THE CINECITY ADVISORY GROUP, NAT KING, KAREN PHILLIPS
(CINEWORLD), CELIA DAVIES (DE LA WARR PAVILION), JON
BARRENECHEA, JIMMY ANDERSON, FRANK WRIGHT, FELICITY
VENTOM (DUKE OF YORK'S), IAN RATTRAY (FRIGHTFEST),
JONATHON GOLDSMITH (FRINGE RESTAURANT AND BAR),
MELANIE TEBB (HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS), HOTEL LUNA,
ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU, JOHN JOLLY AND
EVERYONE AT INSIGHT CITY NEWS, TONY JONES, GERALD
BLAZEVIC (LANSDOWNE PLACE), ANDREW WOODYATT,
MATT SMITH (LIONSGATE FILMS), MICHAEL WAILES, LAURA
DE CASTO (METRO TARTAN FILMS), ANDREW KEMPSON
(MOJO RESTAURANT AND BAR) HAMISH MOSELEY
(MOMENTUM PICTURES), JAMES TULLY, ANDY WALLER,
GREGG WILSON (ODEON), NICK VARLEY (PARK CIRCUS),
MARLENA LUKASIAK (POLISH CULTURE INSTITUTE), JANE
KING (SCREEN ARCHIVE SOUTH EAST), MANDY BELNICK
(UIP), RUPERT PRESTON, SAM MOORE (VERTIGO), COLIN
BURCH (VERVE), DAVID GOOD (WARNERS), DAVID SHEAR
(THE WORKS DISTRIBUTION), CORINNE WEBER.
