Join the Transition film festival for a weekend of fun workshops which explores the art of film making. Discover the skills to create an animated film. Writing your own scripts, tell your own story and direct your own movie. These workshops are funded by South Hams District Councillors: Jacqi Hodson, John Green and Robert Vint. Continue reading “Calling all budding movie makers…” »
Join us for the opening night of the Transition Town Totnes Film Festival, featuring music, words, films, wine, beer, laughter and tears.
Transition Town Totnes are not only celebrating the opening of the third Transition film festival, but also the 10th anniversary of the worlds first Transition Town.
The night will be hosted by poet Matt Harvey and will feature songs from acclaimed a capella choir Glorious Chorus and singer song writer Ros Brady, a deep ecologist who has written songs from interviews with top environmental thinkers such as Patrick Holden, Mary Colwell, Jonathon Porrit and Vandana Shiva. She tours the country with her partner Simon Barron also as folk duo BarronBrady.
We will also take a glance at TTT’s past, present and future with Rob Hopkins and others, enjoy film shorts from across our 10 years, have a sneak preview of film trailers from the festival programme and of course enjoy local beer and wine from the bar.
Price: Free event, donations gratefully received
‘EMBRACE’ is a social impact documentary that explores the issue of body image. The project has been supported by nearly 9000 Kickstarter pledgers who responded to a fundraising trailer she released in 2014, which has now had over 25 million internet views.
The inspiration for EMBRACE came about after Taryn Brumfitt posted an unconventional before-and-after image on the internet in 2013 that sparked an international media frenzy. The image, which embraces body diversity, was seen by over 100 million people worldwide and led to hundreds of interviews and articles. But Taryn soon realized how restrictive 4-minute TV interviews, 800 word articles and 140 characters on Twitter can be. This issue needed a louder voice on a bigger platform, so the idea of creating the documentary EMBRACE was born.
Take a trip down memory lane and enjoy a unique cinema viewing experience.
Transition Town Totnes are collaborating with the Totnes WI with the aim to bring people together for a delicious full afternoon tea and mobile cinema experience.
This is a unique one off event not to be missed!
‘Audrey’ (the name of the cinema), was rescued and restored several years ago, and she now travels the length and breadth of the country educating and entertaining an adoring public.
Event Details:
PRICE: £10.00 per person includes cinema experience & full afternoon tea
LOCATION: Masonic Hall & Market Square, Totnes.
DATE: Sunday 12th March 2017
TIMES: Session A – tea at 14:00 film at 14:45 Session B – film at 14:00 tea at 14:45
NB: each session is approx. 90 minutes in length.
A not to be missed event will take place on the evening of Saturday 11th March – ‘Conversations with The Wind’ – an extraordinary encounter between two world class artists, poet Alice Oswald and saxophonist Andy Sheppard. They will perform improvised work in dialogue with a stunning contemporary silent film created by Geoff Dunlop. Continue reading “Conversations with The Wind” »
Transition Network is delighted to announce that it will be co-ordinating the community-led distribution of the French film ‘Tomorrow’ (known as ‘Demain’ in France). Tomorrow has been a phenomenon in France. Launched in December 2015, it has been watched by over 1.5 million people, won ‘Best Documentary’ at the Cesar Awards (the French Oscars), been shown to communities, schools, at the United Nations, the European Parliament, in board rooms and local governments. A recent European study ‘Generation What?’ found that the major concern of people between 18 and 34 years old is now ecology, rather than employment, a shift attributed largely to the film. Continue reading “Demain UK Premier” »
As part of the film festival expansion plans for 2017, Audrey, the vintage mobile cinema is being brought into Totnes for the weekend. Continue reading “The Vintage Mobile Cinema…” »
Opportunities don’t come much bigger than this if you love films and the documentary creation process.