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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...
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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...
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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...
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2009 Winners
Winner: Crossing Lines (30m, India , USA)
Directors: Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani
2. International Documentary
Winner: War of the Gods (90m, USA)
Director: Jennifer Abbott
3. Documentary
Winner: The Quantum Activist (72m, USA)
Director: Ri Stewart
4. American Feature
Winner: Drawing With Chalk (118m, USA)
Director: Todd Giglio
5. First Film International
Winner: Flawless (10m, UK )
Director: Stanislava Buevich
6. First Film USA
Winner: Machetero (98m, USA)
Director: Vagabond Beaumont
7. Horror
Winner: Morgue Story - Sangue, Baiacu & Quadrinhos (78m, Brazil )
Director: Paulo Biscaia Filho
8. International Feature Film
Winner: Emma Blue (84m, Greece )
Director: Robert MacLean
9. LGBT
Winner: Tahitian Wedding (13m, USA)
Director: Leza Lidow
10. Short Film Under 5 mins
Winner: Shooter (4m, UK)
Director: Ronnie Goodwin
11. Short Film Under 10 mins
Winner: La Noche es Clara (7m, Mexico )
Director: Rafael Elizalde
12. Short Film Under 15 mins
Winner: Eb & Flo (10m, UK)
Director: Glenys Jacques
13. Short Film Under 20 mins
Winner: Alone about the Universe (19m, USA)
Director: Toby Lomas
14. Best Short Film
Winner: A Matter of Taste (12m, Croatia )
Director: Costa Ipsa
15. Film Under 35 mins
Winner: Moments of Awakenings (23m, Germany)
Director: Amir Kaufmann
16. Film Under 60 mins
Winner: Robert 39 (40m, USA)
Director: Daniel McCabe
17. Film Under 75 mins
Winner: Toy Room (75m, U S A)
Director: Wesley J. Turner
18. Student Film International
Winner: Masks (35m, Hong Kong)
Director: Alba Rayton
19. Student Film USA
Winner: Straight On Till Morning (22m, U S A)
Director: Casey Hallen
20. Young Film-Maker
Winner: Salam (6mins Kuwait)
Director: Ahmad Alkhalaf
21. Tamworth Tinseltown Award
Winner: Wasters (93m)
Director: Luke Rufo
22. Tamworth Best under 10 mins
Winner: Toast (9m)
Director: Richard Miller
23. Festival Director’s Special Award
Joint winners: Andrew Silver (Boston) & Richard Edkins (Tamworth)
24. Festival Director’s Award For Contributions to Midlands’ Film-Making
Winner: Mark Locke (Tamworth)
25. Best in Festival
Winner: Tied to a Chair (94m, USA)
Director: Michael Bergmann
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Local History
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Tamworth’s Starr Material 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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Tamworth Castle Ghost Stories The case in black and white for Tamworth Castle’s ghost stories
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