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HELLO and the very warmest of Tamworth welcomes to an event that literally would have been just a Hollywood scriptwriter’s dream less than a year ago.

The 2009 Heart of England International Film Festival is set to take the UK movie-making business by storm – and be the biggest event of its kind this year.

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TAMWORTH’S own budding film-makers will get a chance to touch the Hollywood stardust in a special screening night during Heart of England International Festival Week.

For the town’s celluloid wannabes will be brushing shoulders with a host of international writers and film-makers at the Tamworth Tinseltown Night in the Castle Hotel on Wednesday June 10 from 6pm.

Read more: Tamworth Tinseltown Night

HeartBeat House Media, in conjunction with the town’s 140-year-old newspaper the Tamworth Herald, is bringing the story of Tamworth’s most famous World War II hero to festival week.

The Enigma film, starring the 2008 Oscar winner Kate Winslet and based on local seaman Colin Grazier’s epic de-coding drama, will having a special FREE screening at the Castle Hotel on Thursday June 11 from 7pm.

This is possibly the first real chance for Tamworth people to see the movie story outside of the cinema since it was released in 2001 – as it was never on full general release.

It’ll be Lights Camera and Coffee for 24 lucky people this summer when a real live Hollywood director comes to Tamworth and ladles up advice in a town centre coffee house.

Award-winning director Justin Golding will be in town as part of the biggest movie festival event in the UK this year.

The hand-picked two dozen people from the town will enjoy a cuppa and some casting couch tips from a movie starmaker.

Read more: Lights, Camera, Coffee

John, Paul, George, Ringo, Mick, Bobbie, Tom, Phil, Ethel and, of course, Edwin.

IT’S been famous for a long time now - and was once bigger than Birmingham after emerging from the Roman occupation.

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