Hull BAFTA Winner Launches Festival Film Club

Beverley Film Society

 is proud to announce that for the fifth year running it has been invited to deliver The Film Club @ Beverley Folk Festival, which opens with the BAFTA award winning animated film, The Bigger Picture.

Produced by film-maker Chris Hees and directed by Daisy Jacobs, The Bigger Picture was awarded the BAFTA for the best Short Animation in February, has wowed audiences at Cannes and also received an Oscar nomination.

Festival goers attending the screening on Saturday will have the unique opportunity to enjoy a special introduction to the film by Chris Hees who will be also be speaking about his red carpet experiences and showing his award winning comedy short, How I Didn’t Become A Piano Player.

The Film Club @ Beverley Folk Festival

Festival Film Club tickets: £4.00.

Tickets can be bought at the festival box office over the festival weekend 19-21 June or can be pre booked by emailing via www.beverleyfilmsociety.org.uk – Note: Entry is free for Beverley Folk Festival 2015 wristband holders.

Saturday 20 June 11.30am

The Bigger Picture (2014) (8 mins)
Produced by Chris Hees
Directed by Daisy Jacobs

“You want to put her in a home. You tell her. Tell her now!” hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won’t go and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life.
The Bigger Picture uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative.

This Oscar nominated 8-minute short film won this year’s BAFTA for Best Short Animation. The animated short was produced by Hull-based filmmaker Chris Hees, who will introduce the film to festival goers, and directed by Daisy Jacobs.
http://screeningroom.nfts.co.uk/video/the-bigger-picture-trailer

How I Didn’t Become A Piano Player (2014) (18 mins)
Produced by Chris Hees

Ted, 9 year old, is the clumsiest boy in the world. Desperately searching for his vocation, he cannot find anything he is good at. The breakthrough arrives the day his father comes home with a monstrous old piano. Ted has the revelation: he will become the next Mozart. A charming comedy based on the short story, Every Good Boy by David Nicholls.

Produced by Hull-based filmmaker, Chris Hees, this quirky comedy drama has already been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award and won last year’s Audience Award for Best Short Film at Aspen Shortfest.Saturday 20 June 1.15pm

Me, A Guitar And Some Daft Stuff (2012) (122 mins)
Produced by Geoff Sargieson

Filmed at Wakefield Theatre Royal on 2012, the concert includes some of Mike Harding’s all-time greats, such as Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls, My Brudda Sylveste, Rosy-cheeked Girls, Quasimodo and the Virgin Mary, the ballad of Cow-heeled Lou and Bombers Moon.

Sunday 21 June 12.00pm

Searching for Sugar Man (2012) Cert PG (86 mins)
Directed by Malik Bendjelloul

 

In the 1990s two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970’s American rock ‘n’ roller, Sixto Rodriguez. Once touted as the new Bob Dylan, Rodriguez became a casualty of the Detroit music scene and disappeared, only to re-emerge several years later as a cult hero in .

This funny but sad documentary opens an unexpected window on the secret history of white South Africa.

Searching for Sugar Man has been awarded many awards, including the Oscar and the BAFTA for Best Documentary in 2013.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/searchingforsugarman/

Sunday 21 June 1.30pm

Double bill screening of:
The Bigger Picture (2014) (8 mins)
How I Didn’t Become A Piano Player (2014) (18 mins)
Both films produced by Chris Hees
(NB: no producer’s talk with the Sunday screening)

Sunday 21 June 2.15pm

The Waterson Family Live at Hull Truck (2010) (131 mins)
Produced by Geoff Sargieson

Back by popular demand, this film features the unique home coming celebration of Mike Waterson, Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy and extended family members live on stage at Hull Truck Theatre in August 2010. Songs include Bright Phoebus, Fine Horseman, Some Old Salty, Shallow Brown, The Good Old Way and many more.

Features exclusive interviews with the family at their home and creates a career retrospective, looking back over 50 years as the first family of English folk music.

The concert was acclaimed by BBC Radio 2’s Mike Harding as the folk event of the decade.



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