This year's
Portsmouth Film Festivalis happening from the 26th to the 28th of September.
Following on from last year's Gala Screening of the Michael Caine movie Sleuth, this year the festival will also open with a major motion picture. The Gala screening will be held at
No6 Cinema, Portsmouth's only independent cinema.
There will be drive in cinema on Southsea Common on the evening of Saturday 27 September. To get local people involved in the festival, Portsmouth's local newspaper,
The News, the media sponsor for the festival, is running a poll to ask readers which film they want to see.
click here to vote for the film of your choice. The drive in is is being arranged by
Pyjama Pictures for Portsmouth Screen.
In association with the Portsmouth Comedy Festival,
No 6 Cinema will be screening Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy from 1963,
Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The movie stars comedy legend Peter Sellers, who was born in Portsmouth.
Sunday afternoon will see a screening of Disney's The Jungle Book, based on Rudyard Kipling's classic stories. This open air screening will take place on Albert Road as part of
Love Albert Road Day.
The big screenings will also be accompanied by short films by local filmmakers.
Aspex Gallery will be investigating the role of Japanese drawings animated drawings in contemporary art, focusing on artist
Takashi Ishida, with the artist producing the work live work live at the event.
On Sunday Night the fesival will close with a screening of films by the regions filmakers as part of the Shorts::Cut series. Shorts::Cut has been showcasing the work of local filmmakers since 2005 and is in it's fourth year. The screening is planned to take place at No 6 cinema, Action Stations. If you have a film you would like enter for be considered please visit the Shorts Cut wesbite at
www.portsmouthscreen.org.uk/shorts/As well as these events, a range of fringe events will be taking place at venues throughout the city, including other screenings by local filmmakers, international films screening in restaurants, workshops and other participatory events, screenings of films by young people.
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