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TTTFF20 dates

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TTTFF20: our next festival will be in November 2020, dates tbc – again in partnership with the Barn Cinema in Dartington and our own local venue, Totnes Cinema.

Transition Town Totnes Film Festivals show films on a range of important issues – including climate change, food production, declining resources and the value of community. We also address key challenges of our time such as refugees, global exploitation, social exclusion/justice, and women’s empowerment.

We seek to present films which provide hope, inspiration and imaginative solutions whilst not avoiding the stark realities we are currently facing.

Unlike most film festivals we do not just show recent releases but rather present stimulating films which have not been commercially distributed.

Many sessions offer time for discussions, often with the film-makers themselves and relevant speakers. There are also film-making workshops over the weekend for both children and adults.

 

CLEAR WATER exhibition at the Ariel Centre, Totnes, Jan 10-Feb 14 2019

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Transition Town Totnes 10th anniversary celebrations

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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!

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‘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.

Conversations with The Wind

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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” »

Demain UK Premier

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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” »

The Vintage Mobile Cinema…

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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…” »