Line-up confirmed for Bradford Film Fest NEWS
The Bradford International Film Festival has confirmed its line-up of film premieres for this year's event.
The Bradford International Film Festival has confirmed its line-up of film premieres for this year's event.
The festival will show 27 UK feature films and a dozen short film premieres representing work by filmmakers from than 20 countries. The 2012 line-up includes a selection of new features including Albert Nobbs and In Love with Alma Cogan, a new British drama starring Roger Lloyd Pack, John Hurt and Niamh Cusack. The opening film of the festival will be Damsels in Distress, the fourth feature from US independent director Whit Stillman. Neil Young, festival co-director, said to the BBC this week:
'We are thrilled to open with Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, which closed last year's Venice Film Festival to rave reviews. It is a sassy, sophisticated and highly original musical comedy and stars Greta Gerwig as a socially ambitious college-student determined to influence world history by inventing a new dance-craze.'
Former EastEnders and Carry On star Barbara Windsor will receive the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. There will be highlights from Barbara Windsor's early films to mark her lifetime achievement award. Organisers have stated that Ms Windsor will appear at the festival on 20th April.
Other festival highlights include Indonesian martial arts action thriller The Raid and Sing Your Song, a celebration of the life of actor, singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. The festival opens at the National Media Museum in Bradford on 19th April and runs until 26th April.
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