yrg-bffs Yorkshire Film Societies
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Special event
The Yorkshire Group BFFS Annual Film Study Course 4 - 6 Dec 2009
A Residential Weekend at Cober Hill Conference Centre, Cloughton, Scarborough.
“M U D D L E E A S T“
Our main programme strand this year consists of outstanding films from the Middle East, many of them rarely screened in Britain and coming from IRAN, IRAQ, ISRAEL, EGYPT, LEBANON and KURDISTAN, showing the political and very human situations in some of the world’s trouble spots.
Our second screen will feature a contrasting programme including the great French silent classic L’ARGENT (Dir. Marcel L‘Herbier, 1928). A selection of films from this year’s featured director JUZO ITAMI, the maker of such film society favourites as Tampopo and A Taxing Woman many of who’s comedies have never been widely shown outside Japan and BRIT-NOIR showing some fine examples of British film noir from the 1940s and 1950s.
Cober Hill offers first-class accommodation, fine food and a unique atmosphere.
The fully inclusive charge is £150 per person for Friday and Saturday and Sunday night accommodation, all movies, en-suite rooms, programme notes, meals and refreshments with no extra charge for single rooms.
For those wishing to stay for Friday and Saturday night only the cost is £120 per person.
Early booking, with payment, is recommended as we have only 45 places available.
Booking forms from:
Tony Davison, 29 Peasholm Drive, Scarborough,
North Yorkshire, YO12 7NA.
Tel: 01723 361661
About the Yorkshire Group and BFFS
The Yorkshire Group of Film Societies is a Regional Group of the British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS).
The BFFS represents and supports an affiliated ‘chain’ of around 350 ‘occasional cinemas’ throughout the UK, run by volunteers and having a combined membership of over 40,000 people. We show something like 590 different films per year to a combined total audience of well over half a million people.
The film society movement in the UK is now 82 years old and the BFFS to which it gave rise, remains dedicated to maintaining the movement’s long and honourable tradition in providing access to independent cultural cinema and in the case of many rural communities the only access to cinema.
Film societies are run by enthusiasts who have a love of cinema and who work to share their enjoyment and experiences with others. They show a wide range of films, which often cannot be, seen anywhere else in the area: the best of cinema from all around the world.
There are lots of Film Societies in Yorkshire and details of their programmes are shown overleaf. They are all open to the general public.
If there is not a Film Society near you why not start one?
To set up a Film Society all you need are a few like minded people, a suitable venue, access to projection equipment and a lot of enthusiasm.
Information can be obtained from the British Federation of Film Societies
BFFS, Unit 315, The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
Tel 0114 2210314 or visit the website at www.bffs.org.uk also try http://freespace.virgin.net/dave.watterson/
Your local contacts for help and advice are the Chairman of the Yorkshire Group of Film Societies:
Tony Davison
29 Peasholm Drive, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO12 7NA
Tel: 01723 361661
or the Secretary: Richard Fort
8 Bradley Grove, Silsden, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 9LX.
Tel: 01535 653471.
Supported by B F F S / Screen Yorkshire / The Film Council / Yorkshire Forward
