A Film Festival to Remember

There were sell-out screenings, packed audiences and special events at last week’s Bridport Film Festival, From Page To Screen.

Edith hosted film introductions as well as post-screening interviews with Tom Littledyke, after ‘Flee’, and Mark Hix after ‘Boiling Point’. In response to Flee’s powerful depiction of an Afghani refugee’s experience of escape, Tom Littledyke shared with her the inside story of his two trips carrying humanitarian aid from his Marshwood Vale pub The Shave Cross Inn to displaced Ukrainians.  Local restaurateur Mark Hix spoke candidly with Edith after Boiling Point’s single-take portrait of a night in a professional kitchen, about his concerns for the hospitality industry.

Edith says;

‘Thanks to the Bridport Film Festival committee for having me help curate, what I felt, was a fabulous programme that allowed me to share my passion for Soundtracks,  to enthuse about great storytelling and important storytelling that can encourage us all to think about our actions and how we live our life, and to remind us how cinema encourages us to escape.   Thank you also to the wonderful people of Bridport and those who travelled to watch the films and listen to the chats, you made me feel so very welcome.  I hope I can come back again soon but know that you live in a very special place and the film festival is something you should be extremely proud of’.

There was a special event for families at The Lyric Theatre screening of Disney’s original 1940 version of ‘Pinocchio’. The Lyric is now the home of the Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company – who are on a national tour with their own interpretation of the iconic Italian story – but for one afternoon it was transformed back into the town cinema it was from 1912 to 1962.   After the film children could make their own puppets with Stuff and Nonsense’s Holly Miller.