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Let’s keep those credits rolling in town
TAMWORTH’S brush with the movies last week will not fade like a Hollywood cowboy riding OFF into the sunset – it’s set to gallop back bigger and better in 2010.
And Heart of England International Film Festival boss Nick Hudson has already booked next year’s event – and told the Herald about turning the town’s celluloid dreams into solid reality for the future.
Following the huge success of the 2009 event – when 200 films were screened in the town from film-makers representing 31 different countries – Hudson does not intend to waste one second in preparing for 2010.
And determined not to clash with the June 2010 World Cup, the festival will run next year from Sunday May 16 to Saturday May 22.
Town ready to be caught in the Quarter Lights
THE HOLLYWOOD lustre looks to have sprinkled stardust on the local movie-making scene – for all time.
And now the cinematic spotlight is set to fall on Tamworth not just once a year – but over the next 12 months.
That’s one the most positive aspects to emerge from the 2009 Heart of England International event, according to festival boss Nick Hudson.
Justin time for a taste of Hollywood
STUDENTS from a Tamworth school got a taste of Hollywood from visiting film director Justin Golding.
The LA-based movie boss put a group of youngsters from Wilnecote High School through their screenwriting paces at a special workshop held at Costa Coffee in George Street.
The two-hour study group, organised by the Heart of England International Film Festival in conjunction with Staffordshire Partnership secretary Sally Smith, got to play out the parts of Golding’s latest movie Gods of Circumstance.
Movie world toasts Tamworth as cinematic centre
Moviemakers from the four corners of the world descended on Tamworth this week - and hailed it fit for a film capital.
As the town staged the Heart of England International Film festival - the largest of its kind in the UK this year - the independent moviemakers jetted in from Cambodia to Croatia right across to Puerto Rico.
Tamworth making movie history
TAMWORTH – more than 1,000 years ago the unofficial Saxon capital of Britain – is ready to claim a new crown as the movie festival CAPITAL of the UK.
For the town’s Heart of England International Film Festival may not be Cannes yet – but even the glitterati set had to start somewhere.
And with more international movies being shown here than any other event in Britain this year, then Tamworth is heading for the big time from the small indie screen.
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