As part of the Portsmouth Film Festival, on Saturday 3rd October there will be a drive-in movie style open air screening of a film down on Southsea common with the largest drive-in screen in Europe. Tickets are £10 and will be on sale from www.portsmouthfilmfestival.org.uk from today or available from Space Gallery on Love Albert Road Day.
For now, you can vote for the film you want to watch fro the following shortlist:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Mamma Mia
Jaws
Finding Nemo
On the Waterfront
Pirates of the Caribbean
Voting can be done online at www.wave105.com or by text or post, full details are over at The News.
The details of the Portsmouth Film Festival 2009 have just been announced. The event will run from 3rd to the 11th of October and include features, shorts, local premiers, projections and world cinema showing across a diverse range of venues in Portsmouth including No6 & No3 Cinema’s, New Theatre Royal, Southsea Common, The Big Screen, Gunwharf Quays, Fat Fox, Little Johnny Russels and Space Gallery.
Confirmed highlights of the 4th Portsmouth Film Festival include a drive-in movie on Southsea Common with Europe’s largest screen, a look at the issue of sustainability with award winning documentaries The Age of Stupid and End of the Line; Question and Answer Sessions with Directors of presented Films ,world cinema screenings covering the subject of life and death, finals of the Submissions Competition, The Italian Job and the premier of Salomé with its new live musical accompaniment. Plus outdoor projections, film and art installations, including early Indian Film in Movieplex, Portsmouth based pop/music videos and sing-along-musical on The Big Screen. Plus you can submit your own films too!
As you may know each year we run a home brew competition in February where the winning brew has the opportunity to be brewed by Irving & Co Brewing Co. and sold around the city in the summer. Last year’s brew, the Strong Island Hopper Ale, was hugely successful being one of Inving’s best selling ales and selling out so quickly it went through a second brew run. This year’s winning ale is Dry Dock No. 1, originally brewed by Lee Immins, went on sale in some of Portsmouth and Southsea’s pubs over the weekend.
We spoke to The Hole in The Wall in Southsea who said the new ale went down a storm with it being their best seller on Sunday and with almost two barrels empty by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend. Those guys at the Hole in The Wall and their regular ale drinkers know their stuff so for us this was amazing early news with the ale.
To officially launch Dry Dock No. 1 we are having a launch party with the lovely souls at The Belle Isle on Thursday evening. The ale will be on full flow, come down and try a pint or two. As well as being on sale all around the city the ale will also be available in Chichester’s Belle Isle too, so you can drink it away from home for the first time too.
Just over a year ago, a group of Strong Islanders were sat on the Isle of Wight ferry on our way to the yearly Randonnee cycling event; 60 miles around the island spread across 5 checkpoints. Whilst on the crossing we couldn’t help but admire various enthusiasts and their custom team jerseys. Fast forward a year and it is my great pleasure to unveil the Strong Island cycling jersey. Made as a one off for the event, the jersey is our way of representing this city and all the values that come with it. Thanks to the combined designing efforts of Chris Ballingall and Tristan Savage, we were able to produce this clean, retro looking jersey that 11 of Southsea’s finest could wear to conquer the island’s endless hills. Well done chaps.
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