• Cine-City Audience Award Winner

      Ponyo

      The 2009 Cine-City Audience Award goes to Ponyo, which had a staggeringly high 4.5 average star rating. Ponyo will go on general release in February 2010. Joint second audience favourites were The Road and The Last Station. We would like to thank everyone who came to see the  films and voted in our audience award.

    • Boogie Woogie screening

      Director Duncan Ward is coming to introduce the screening of Boogie Woogie tomorrow night at 6.30 at The Duke of Yorks. The film is a satirical look at the 90s art scene with a starry cast including Gillian Anderson, Heather Graham, Joanna Lumley, Christopher Lee, Alan Cumming, and Jaime Winstone.

    • More Mixtapes Free

      Mixtapes this Saturday daytime
      28th November 3–7pm, at Riki Tiks, Bond Street.

      In advance of Sunday 29th November’s Mixtapes 2009 programme at Sallis Benney Theatre, Junk TV present a programme of mixtapes: themed film remixes from 2006–2008 by Ben Rivers, Amoeba, Tim Saul & Buck in Fudgy.

      Also, a programme of new shorts, found footage cut ups and oddities. Including:  ’Seeking Connection – Future newscast transmissions through a wormhole in time’ as premiered during White Night 2009.

      ‘Dowtown Heptasm pt 1′ – the first of a seven part reconstruction of the legendary 1950s/60s Jazz beat film reels. ‘Sparkle 1 & 2′ – Mathew Hellett’s award winning Straight 8 and Super 16mm versions of his drag queen alter-ego, Miss Sparkle. We will also be raiding some of the more dusty archival corners of the last 10 years of Junk TV screenings, with accompanying music from film soundtracks, old and new.

      Get yourself there

    • Student Showcase 02/12/09

      We were so impressed with the numbers and quality of films submitted to the festival for our Student Showcase that we have had to split the night in two. We will be screening school and undergraduate work at the Sallis Benney Theatre as advertised and then moving on to Riki Tiks, our film bar, for a selection of post graduate work from The University of Sussex at 8.30pm.

    • Jump the Fence films, Riki Tiks, Bond Street

      Get to see more films this year at our official Film Festival bar!
      We are very pleased to be supported by Drink-In Brighton this year and our official Film Festival Bar is Riki Tiks on Bond Street, Brighton.

      Go to talk,  debate as well as watch extra screenings. Animation, dance for camera, mix tapes and take part in film quizzes.
      Catch the films that nearly slipped through the programming net for free!

      Every ticket you buy for a film entitles you to a discounted drink at three bars, Shakespeare’s Head, Xuma and RIki Tiks. For more information visit drink-in-brighton.co.uk to find more offers and discounts and many other places to eat and drink.

    • Unmade British Cinema in National Press

      The Independent covers Cine-City’s NEVERMADE programme in yesterdays paper, 18 November 2009.

      http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-best-films-never-made-1821716.html

    • MICMACS gets BBFC certificate (12A)

      Our opening night film MICMACS has been awarded a (12A) certificate by the BBFC, so anyone over the age of 12 can now see the film during Cine-City. Unfortunately films without certificates are restricted to those over 18 during the festival.

    • Tickets On Sale 1st November

      Cine-City – The Brighton Film Festival tickets will go on sale from November 1st. Tickets can be bought online or from the Duke of York’s Picturehouse box office.

      We are in the process of uploading all our film and event information onto this website. Keep checking for full festival details, all will be revealed soon ….

    • Opening & Closing Night Films Confirmed

      Cine-City 2009 will launch in style with a preview screening of MICMACS, the latest film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (AMELIE). MICMACS is a thrilling comedy centred around a group of misfits’ plan to bring down two big arms manufacturers. Jeunet continues to be endlessly inventive in his story telling, and MICMACS is a perfect balance of visual feast, edge-of-the-seat plot and witty wordplay.

      The festival closes with A PROPHET. Directed by Jacques Audiard (THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED) A PROPHET captivated audiences at Cannes and seized the Grand Prize with its both poetic and raw aesthetic. Ferocious and compassionate, A PROPHET follows the descent of a young man into the hierarchies of the criminal underworld and has been likened to THE GODFATHER.

    • Special Guest Confirmed for CINECITY

      John Hillcoat the director of the acclaimed adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD has confirmed that he will be able to attend the special Cine-City preview screening of the film. He will take part in a Q&A session following the feature.

    • Figuring Landscapes confirmed
      for Cine-City programme

      Artists’ Moving Image from Australia and the UK

      Landscape is a vital theme through which artists have tackled issues of representation, nation and identity.  FIGURING LANDSCAPES is a remarkable collection of moving image works from Australia and the UK that has grown from the background of the political and cultural history that links the two countries and the close relationship that continues between them. The individual pieces in FIGURING LANDSCAPES address ecological survival, post-industrialism, gender, the touristic gaze, and the social, political and cultural status of indigenous people in a post-colonial modern society.

      The five themed programmes in FIGURING LANDSCAPES will be complemented by a panel discussion on Sat 28 Nov chaired by UK co-curator Catherine Elwes.

    • Wojciech Has — retrospective confirmed

      Following last years Polish Poster Art exhibition and City Eye focus on Gdansk, we’ll again be working with our partners at the Polish Cultural Institute. This year we will be presenting a retrospective of the films by Wojciech Has. Often described as a surrealist, fans of his work include Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Jerry Garcia and Luis Bunuel.

      Internationally his best known work is perhaps The Saragossa Manuscript, described as ‘Simultaneously horrific, erotic and funny … this is one mother of a film” – David Lynch. It is widely regarded as one of the landmark films in Poland’s rich cinematic history.

      Following the success of The Saragossa Manuscript, Has went on to win the Special Jury Award in Cannes 1973 for his next feature The Hour Glass Sanatorium, which has been compared to the work of Bunuel and Gilliam.

      The retrospective will also feature some of his earlier films Noose, Farewells and How to Be Loved.

      Has was appointed as a professor in the directing department at the Lodz Film School in 1974. The 60th anniversary of this eminent school was celebrated last year during CINECITY when we screened a selection of shorts by graduates from the school.

    • Mark Lewis

      It is confirmed our main Artists’ Moving Image feature  for the 2009 festival will be internationally acclaimed film-artist Mark Lewis who has just returned  to London from the Venice Biennale and his series of four films  entitled ‘Cold Morning’ at the Canadian Pavilion.

      Mark will screen three moving image works including  the international premiere of his newest work, currently under construction.

      His practice is focused on the many ways in which the time and space of moving image can transform the pictorial conventions of landscape, portraiture and genre scenes. Many monographs have been produced on his work and it has been exhibited widely:  BFI Southbank, London:  Cetro Andluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla; Vancouver Art Gallery;  Whitney Museum of American Art, Mori Art Museum,  Tokyo; Tate Britain, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris.  For more details visit www.marklewisstudio.com

      “Mark Lewis  film work has returned to he problem of modernity, to the dilemma of its irretrievable pastness on the one hand and it’s continued centrality to it’s thought about art and politics on the other.  In the choice of rear- projection resurrects an archaic technology that shares some attributes of the aesthetics of modernity” Laura Mulvey

      The Exhibition will run for a month from 20th November – 12th December at the University of Brighton Gallery.

    • Festival now open for local film submissions

      CINECITY is now open to submissions from film makers in Brighton & the Screen South Region. For selection in the 2009 Film Festival taking place in November & December.

      If you are either from this area, or have a feature length film / short / video art piece made about or shot here that you would like to submit, send dvd with details to:

      CINECITY – The Brighton Film Festival
      ‘Brighton Submissions 09’
      Screen Archive South East
      University of Brighton
      Faculty of Arts & Architecture
      Grand Parade
      Brighton BN2 OJY

      Deadline for entries:  15 September 2009

      Note: Due the number of submissions the festival receives there is a no returns policy.