Film festival to feature anniversary screening

the week-long Holmfirth Film Festival, which opens on May 21, is playing host to 60s star Rita Tushingham with a 50th anniversary screening of the classic film, A Taste of Honey.
By The Newsroom
Published 6th May 2011, 10:25 BST

Tushingham, who won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role in the 1961 movie, will be at the Picturedrome in Holmfirth on Thursday May 26 for a question-and-answer session with Tony Earnshaw, director of Bradford Film Festival.

Proceeds from the evening will be donated to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.

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The Festival also features local artist Ashley Jackson, who will be introducing his favourite film, Brassed Off. on Sunday May 22 with a question and answer session with its director Mark Herman.

Festival director Stephen Dorril said: “We are bringing film to the Holme Valley and have tried – successfully I believe – to create a programme of events that really does have something of worth for everyone.

“There is already quite a buzz developing in anticipation of this year’s festival.

“There is nothing to top the communal experience of seeing a great film on a big screen.

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“For a week the Valley becomes alive as a public space where people meet or make new friends, are entertained and exchange views on old, new and controversial films.”

The Festival features more than 30 award-winning films from around the world and a screening of the original Brighton Rock.

It is also showcasing the best of more than 300 entries from across the globe in its Northern and International Short Film competitions.

Lecturers from Huddersfield University will be giving talks on Graham Greene, Women in British Films of the 60s and a celebration of Film Poems.

The full brochure is available from Holmfirth tourist information office. Alternatively, it can be downloaded from the Festival website at www.holmfirthfilmfestival.co.uk