Bradford International Film Festival

BENNETT, PARKINSON AND LOACH HEADLINE BRADFORD

Amazing Grace to open, This Is England to close

Bradford International Film Festival

9-24 March 2007

National Media Museum

www.bradfordfilmfestival.org.uk

Box Office: 0870 70 10 200

Alan Bennett, Michael Parkinson and Ken Loach have been added to the roster of guests at this year’s Bradford International Film Festival. Alan Bennett (Thursday 22 March) will discuss his screenwriting career and present the prestigious Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for the best book on photography, film and television of 2006. Michael Parkinson (Wednesday 14 March) will give us his recollections of some of the world’s greatest stars while Ken Loach (Monday 19 March) will talk about his career in movies as part of a rare retrospective of his work.

Wilberforce biopic Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffud will open on 9 March with Director Michael Apted in attendance while the Festival will close on 24 March with a special screening of Shane Meadow’s latest This Is England.

Other confirmed guests with seasons in the Festival include: Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) (Sunday 11 March), Patrick Keiller (Robinson in Space) (Tuesday 13 March), Denis Dercourt (The Pageturner) (Friday 16 March), veteran producer Euan Lloyd (Shalako) (Sunday 18 March), Jamil Dehlavi (Jinnah, Infinite Justice) (Tuesday 20 March) and Godfrey Reggio (Naqoyqatsi, Anima Mundi) (Thursday 22 March)

A new strand for the Festival - Uncharted States of America - brings the radical edge of American independent cinema to the UK, including an ultra rare screening of the near-legendary Dangerous Men, which we hope will be introduced by the mysterious director John S. Rad (Saturday 24 March). Meanwhile, the 3rd Film and Music conference will welcome Bond composer David Arnold (Thursday 15 March). The CineFile strand of documentaries on film includes exclusive screenings of Edge of Outside and Directed by John Ford from TCM and Anger Me in which Kenneth Anger looks back on his life and career.

Widescreen Weekend (15-19 March) returns to make the most of the National Media Museum’s projection capabilities with Burton and Taylor in Cleopatra, Omar Sharif in Mayerling while Goldfinger, 12 Angry Men and South Pacific get their UK premieres as digital prints from Pictureville’s latest projector.