Nomination List
- 2009 Winners
- Best in Festival
- Festival Director's Award For Contributions To Film-making In The Heart of England
- Festival Director's Special Award
- Tamworth Best Film Under 10 minutes
- Tamworth Tinseltown Award
- Young Film-maker
- Student Film USA
- Student Film International
- Film Under 75 mins
- Film Under 60 mins
- Film Under 35 mins
- Short Film Award
- Short Film Under 20 mins
- Short Film Under 15 mins
- Short Film – Under 10 mins
- Short Film Under 5 mins
- LGBT
- International Feature Film
- International Documentary
- Horror
- First Film - USA
- First Film - International
- Documentary
- American Feature
Charity night of the stars in festival finale
CHARITY will be the winner as the festival climaxes with the premiere of a beautiful, powerful, and touching movie that makes you feel good about life and love.
Award-winning director Andrew Silver’s quaint romance Radio Cape Cod - set within the cosmetic confines of New England’s blissful boundaries – is certain to press all the right buttons as a festival finale.
The town will have the chance to soak up the glitzy atmosphere of a Hollywood-style movie premiere event at screen 6 of Tamworth’s Odeon cinema on Saturday, June 13.
And Tamworth mayor’s charity St Giles Hospice, along with the cinema’s NSPCC, will benefit from ALL the monies raised from ticket sales and events on the night which starts as the guests arrive on the ‘red carpet’ from 6.30pm.
Ex-EastEnders, Hotel Babylon and Red Cap star Tamzin Outhwaite is cast alongside Pride and Prejudice and Tudors starlet Tamzin Merchant in a mother-and-daughter role of touching sensivity, which is the fulcrum of this uplifting story.
This “must see” movie for all mothers, brides-to-be, and anyone who has ever been in love – already up for five film festival awards – revolves around three couples over a five-day period in a seaside community.
The main character Jill Waters (Tamzin Outhwaite) plays a radio show host – smitten by handsome graduate Sunday Umanankwe.
The male lead – critically-acclaimed actor Olatunde ‘OT’ Fagbenle – will join director Silver at the event and mingle with the premiere guests before and after the event, which will be hosted by Touch Radio and sponsored by festival owners HeartBeat House Media and the BestOfTamworth website.
Silver, whose usage of his academic background in natural ecology is key to the film’s major symbolic effectiveness, accentuates the conception of the ocean as a cleansing experience for his character studies of undefined love.
Critics call the result an “enriching, methodical and visually arresting experience”. Radio Cape Cod is an unconventional narrative in that it correlates its amorous themes with the nuances of nature and scientific curiosities.
It has an infectious charm for its embracing of love and life set against the undeniable beauty of Woods Hole, Massachusetts - the environmental centre of the Cape’s naturalistic allure.
Emphatically, screenwriter/co-star Marta Rainer oversees a disciplined and involving script that is drenched in genuine sentimentality and intelligence.
Silver began his foray into film as a theatre arts and film analysis teacher at Brandeis University in 1968, later earning his doctorate from Harvard.
His film career began with Next Door (adapted from a story by Kurt Vonnegut), and The Murderer - continuing with documentaries and Return (adapted from a book by Donald Harington),
His last film was Profiles in Aspiration (about women in sport in seven different countries)
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