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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.

Read more: Tamworth making movie history

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.

Read more: Tamworth: Where cinematic Rivers flow

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

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