First Brighton Film Festival

Cine City is delighted to announce the confirmed dates for the first Brighton Film Festival, outline details of its programme and the names of its first media partners and sponsors. The programme dates for 2003 are 21 November to 3 December.

The programme for the festival will be announced on 1 October 2003 and will include new and classic international features including previews of films not scheduled for national release until Spring 2004. There will be a range of films in a special ‘City Eye’ programme that will feature a different international city every year. This year’s programme focuses on Tokyo and features classic work from acknowledged Japanese masters including Ozu and Kurosawa. City Eye is supported by The Japan Foundation and sponsored by Moshi Moshi. A showcase of new film and video work from Brighton short films will be screened before features, with live music and film events including ‘Berlin - Symphony of a City’ with leading piano accompanist, Neil Brand and ‘Cities of the Future' with film-maker Patrick Keiller.

The programme also includes a digital programme called ‘Digital Cities’ incorporating a special programme of work from the onedotzero festival and networking events with Wired Sussex and Fabrica. Digital Cities is sponsored by Baker Tilly in association with Wired Sussex; education events including free screenings for schools at the Duke of York’s cinema, a presentation on the Hove Pioneers at Hove Museum, film-makers events at the Duke of York’s and Q&A's with film-makers.

The opening night reception will be held on Friday 21 November at the Hilton Metropole followed by the opening film at The Odeon. The opening reception is sponsored by the Hilton Metropole. An artist in Residence supported by Arts Council England, South East: Paul Farrington will work with new sound and image technologies to produce a range of work for the festival including a live interactive digital performance at Moshi Moshi in Bartholomew Square.

The Argus, Juice 107.2 and Wired Sussex have all agreed to be Media Partners for Cine City. The Argus will be producing a special festival supplement on 21 November 2003. Juice 107.2 will be running a series of features and promotions and Wired Sussex will be supporting the Digital Cities programme with a special event at Fabrica on Thursday 27 November 2003. Sponsors include Baker Tilly, The Hilton Metropole and Moshi Moshi.

Cine City is a new annual film festival for Brighton & Hove organised by the University of Brighton, the South East Film and Video Archive and City Screen. The festival involves every major cinema screen in Brighton including the Odeon, UGC, Cinematheque, the Gardner Arts Centre and the Duke of York’s Picturehouse. Cine City is funded by Screen South, Arts Council South East, Brighton & Hove City Council, City Screen and the University of Brighton with support from Lighthouse, Junk TV and many other key industry partners. Media Partners and Sponsors include The Argus, Baker Tilly, The Hilton Metropole, Juice 107.2, Moshi Moshi and Wired Sussex.

Full programme details will be announced on 1 October 2003. The festival website www.cinecity. co.uk will be launched in October 2003.