BBC Reel History Event

Portsmouth Film Society is taking part in the BBC series of events celebrating local history through archive film, in partnership with the Wessex Film and Sound Archive. Join PFS for a look back at Portsmouth and Southsea history on the big screen, with a talk from local artist Jez Stevens who will discuss his project “No Diving” on the Hilsea Lido, which uses footage from local amateur filmmakers taken at the Lido, and Portsmouth historian Dr. Dave Allen.
Date – Wednesday, November 16 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Omega Centre, Portsmouth.
Entry is £2 or free for full Portsmouth Film Society members.

No Diving film

For those of you that missed our post of Dave Allen’s lecture here it is below.

Portsmouth Film Festival

Portsmouth Film Festival put this great little promo together a while back showing how the sights and sounds of Portsmouth can be great inspiration for creativity. The film festival is a labour of love and with the cuts, etc is always in need of volunteers, funding, sponsorship so if you can help in any way please get in contact via EMAIL or FACEBOOK.

Tommy (1975) at The Kings Theatre

This Saturday 25th September, in association with Portsmouth Film Society, The Kings Theatre are showing Tommy in the venue where it was filmed. The Who’s landmark Rock Opera was shot at a number of locations around Portsmouth and the classic Pinball Wizard scene with Elton John was filmed inside the Kings Theatre itself! The Portsmouth Film Festival brings ‘Tommy’ back to the Kings as part of this years event.

Portsmouth Film Festival are producing a short film which documents people who were involved in the making of Tommy at locations in Portsmouth featured in the Film including The Kings Theatre with their memories, their own films and photo footage of the time. This will be shown as a prelude to the main feature film Tommy. The film will then be followed by a live tribute band, ‘Who’s Next’, making this a fantastic live music and cinematic experience!

You can also view a short article about Tommy, South Parade Pier & other facts over at ITV Meridian Tonight HERE.

Tickets: £10, £5 for students, £2 off for Concessions, Box Office 02392 828282, www.kings-southsea.com

Illustration: Deep South

Portsmouth Film Festival – WIN Tickets

Competition One:

A fabulous opportunity to win two free tickets and be involved in next years theme for our festival 2011! We are looking for ideas for our 2011 film festival. As you know this years theme is “Oh I do like to be beside the seaside”.

Task: To come up with in 30 words or so, a theme for next years film festival with an explanation as to why you think it would be a good idea.

Prize: 2 free tickets to Easy Rider/Tommy/Monsieur Hurlot /Seaside Shorts OR the last 7.

Closing Date: September 19th. Please send me a message with your entry and the very best of luck. Will be in touch with the winner shortly after the closing date of the 19th September. For more details check out the Portsmouth Film Festival Facebook Group.

Competition Two:

Another wonderful opportunity to win two fee tickets for one of our selected movies. This competition is to see who can introduce the most members to our facebook page. All you have to do is nominate your friends. If they then join the group, ask them to send me a wee message to say it was you who nominated them.

The person who has nominated the most new members will win the competition. Closing date: Again the 19th September. For more details check out the Portsmouth Film Festival Facebook Group.

Portsmouth Film Festival

The line up for this year’s Portsmouth Film Festival which takes place between the 23rd and 26th September has been unveiled. The theme this year “Oh I do like to be beside the seaside” one long weekend of film events, features, shorts, quizzes, installations, exhibitions and workshops exploring the darker side of the seaside. The festival includes a showing of The Who’s film Tommy which was filmed on location in Southsea, which will included a live band to accompany the showing as well as other treats for Tommy fans.

For full programme details visit the festival website at www.portsmouthfilmfestival.org.uk or follow them on Facebook.

Antichrist

Continuing the Portsmouth Film Festival sees No. 6 Cinema showing the controversial film Antichrist, directed by Lars Von Trier and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. The film will be shown at 6:30pm and if you can’t make it today it’ll be re-shown on the 8th at 8:30pm. For full details see www.no6cinema.co.uk and Portsmouth Film Festival.

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili and In the City of Sylvia

The Portsmouth Film Festival continues today with a showing of Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (15) at the No.3 Cinema in Portsmouth’s central library in Guildhall Square. A film inspired by a people’s remarkable mission surrounding the illegal Tibetan antelope poaching in the region of Kekexili, the largest animal reserve in China. The story is brought to the screen with great detail by director Lu Chuan. Set against the exquisite backdrop of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Chuan tells the tale of brave local Tibetans who face death and starvation to save the endangered antelope herds from a band of ruthless hunter. The film starts at 6:30pm.

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili is then followed at 8:30pm by In the City of Sylvia (PG). This film, by the Spanish director and cinema academic José Luis Guerín, is outstanding, a superbly shot and hauntingly enigmatic interior drama of longing, which has acquired cult status on the festival circuit and now has a very welcome UK release.

Tickets: £5, Concs:£3.50 or both films: £8, Concs:£6.

Check out the festivals’ website for full details.

Film Festival Submissions Screening

The Portsmouth Film Festival submissions competition shortlist will be screened in The Fat Fox this evening from 7:30pm and is free entry. For more information check www.portsmouthfilmfestival.org.uk/submissions.

Last year’s winner was Jack Says:

Drive In Movie – Cancelled

Sad news, due to high winds tonight’s drive in movie down on Southsea common has had to be cancelled:

“Dear everyone,

It is with great sadness that we have had to cancel this evenings drive in movie on Southsea Common. Due to the adverse weather conditions and with health & safety in mind we have had no choice but to pull the plug.

Thank you to all those who bought a ticket. For all online bookings made through paypal your ticket will be refunded within 28 days later.

We at PFF are absolutely gutted, as we have been working hard to make this a really special evening.

Please keep an eye out for all the other events throughout the week.

Much love from PFF!”

End of the Line

The Portsmouth Film Festival 2009 kicks of this evening with a showing of ‘End of the Line’ at the No. 6 Cinema, sponsored by Portsmouth University. Following the film will be a Q&A session with the film’s producer Claire Lewis.

7pm Show – Tickets: adults are £5, concessions £3.50 and students are FREE. For more information visit endoftheline.com.

PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage