Bite the Mango Film Festival 2003

20 To 26 June 2003
Experience The Difference

The Bite the Mango Film Festival is back for its ninth year celebrating the very best of world cinema. Presented by the award-winning National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, this year the festival promises to serve a real treat for all movie lovers. With premieres, previews, retrospectives, master-classes and seminars by renowned guests, Bite the Mango will this year focus on 'music in film'.

There's a mini retrospective of Indian cinema's favourite, Anil Kapoor and he's sure to end the festival in style by talking about his career on stage at the closing night gala.

As well as the best new talent, Bite the Mango is proud to take an exclusive look at the work of legendary Hindi film maker V. Shantaram. This is a rare opportunity to see Shantaram's work and appreciate a genius at his best. At the time of his death, Shantaram was almost 90 years old and had devoted 73 of those years to Indian cinema.
A season of contemporary Nigerian cinema gets a rare UK outing, the Oscar-nominated but much under-rated Hollywood actor Laurence Fishburne gets a long-overdue retrospective, as does the aforementioned A R Rahman, whose collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Don Black brought Bollywood Dreams to London's theatre land.

With a eclectic mix of the latest previews and premieres from Hong Kong, USA, India, UK, South Korea, Belgium, Palestine, France and Japan, Bite the Mango this year lives up to its billing as the leading festival of its kind celebrating the best of cinema from around the globe.

Besides the festival itself the museum itself is well worth a look if you've got a day to spare in Bradford.

For more details of the festival go to:
Bite the Mango Film Festival 2003