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NEIFF/NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY Documentary Filmmaking Course

Culture Lab 49 King's Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8QB, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, GB

NEIFF and Newcastle University have once again partnered to offer this wonderful opportunity to create your own documentary filmNEIFF / Film@CultureLab Documentary Filmmaking Challenge Newcastle University Sept 11 – 15, Culture Lab Are you 18+? Are you curious about people and the world around you? Have you ever wanted to make a documentary but not had the opportunity? Are you willing to work collaboratively as part of a team towards a common goal? If you are living in the northeast region and have aspirations to be a documentary filmmaker but never had the experience of being part of a crew and making a film, then this exciting and challenging programme is the perfect opportunity for you to try! North-East International Film festival and Newcastle University [...]

NEIFF – In conversation with Oscar winning Producer David Parfitt

Northumbria University - Lipman Building, Room 031 2 Sandyford Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8SB, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, GB

Get up close and personal with North East Oscar and BAFTA winning legend, David Parfitt. An intimate in-conversation hosted by the NEIFFDavid Parfitt is an English film producer, actor, and co-founder of Trademark Films. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 71st Academy Awards for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and is the producer of such hits as Gangs Of New York and The Father among many other works.He was Chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) from 2008 to 2010 and was Chair of Film London from 2010 to 2017. Since 2018 he has been a governor of Dulwich College, where he was formerly a parent.David is originally from the North East and is the current Chair of [...]

Opening Screening: The Old Oak + Live Q&A

Everyman Cinema 75-85 Grey St, Newcastle upon Tyne

The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available thus making it an ideal location for the Syrian refugees. Tickets are limited so if you want to be one of the first people to watch this fantastic film and participate in a live cast Q&A then book your tickets now!

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SHORTS BLOCK – IT TAKES TWO

Star And Shadow Cinema Warwick Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1BB, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, GB

Seven magnificent short films in one block TWOFOLD - As New Year's Eve festivities are underway on the floor above, in a single-take snapshot, Allie and Erin have a chance encounter down below. But when Allie recognises Erin from over a decade ago, the past breaks the surface, and fireworks ensue. BLUE - A father daughter relationship is tested as Dad drives Lucy to have her abortion and the two dance around what her future might hold. As they reach the clinic, Lucy looks to her Dad for answers - but it’s not his decision to make. A simple car ride becomes a journey to adulthood for Lucy as she faces hard choices, that ultimately she must make alone. GIRL AT PARTY - An [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – CONNECTIONS

Seven short films in one magnificent blockYOUNG HOT BLOODS - An unassuming seamstress is confronted by an undercover policeman seeking to track down members of the Suffragette movement. An action-packed slice of history delivered with an uppercut to the gut.SIX FEET OF SEPARATION - March 2020. Dina and Noah can’t see each other anymore. How long is the separation going to last and will their relationship survive it?FIST - Gordon is determined to die as he has lived - alone. Until care worker Aaron comes knocking. And an intimate encounter alters his life as well as his death.CARRION - In an isolated desert motel, a young girl digs up a rotting carcass. Later that night, something mysterious is unearthed in her mother.FETISHIZE ME - A [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – FAMILY TIES

Seven magnificent short films in one blockLOVE, DAD AND DADDY - In 2021, UK actor Ross Adams and his husband were approved to adopt. But after matching with a little boy, their journey was brought to an abrupt halt. Now, Ross explores the adoption system and considers if he has the strength to try again.ECHO - Echo, tells the story of Alice, a young woman so traumatized by the loss of her baby that she shuts herself off emotionally from her partner and retreats into a fantasy world where she is able to connect with the essence of the child she lost, who we call Echo. After an elaborate underwater game of hide and seek, which clearly fills her with joy, Alice comes to the [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – IT’S ALL RELATIVE

Seven magnificent films in one shorts block LOSING US - 17-year-old Gezim, refugee and victim of human trafficking in the UK, is doing everything he can to keep his 12-year-old sister Elira safe after their mother goes missing and they are left to fend for themselves. GHANIMAH - The war on terror, the 7/7 bombings, the loss of the son's mother and the allegiance to either Islam or Britain. What will unfold. Family, Duty or Honour? A heated argument occurs when Abdullah (Mikhail Sen - House of Dragon, A Suitable Boy) declares he is joining the British Military to the shock of his pacifist father Omar (Adil Akram - Spectre, What's Love got to do with it?) and anger of his fundamentalist older brother [...]

AN INTIMATE IN CONVERSATION WITH AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR NEIL MARSHALL

Northumbria University - Sandyford Building - Room SAN 212 2 Sandyford Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8SB, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, GB

Get up close and personal with award winning Director, Producer, Editor, Screenwriter and Geordie legend, Neil Marshall.Neil Marshall, born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, is an English film and television director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. He directed the horror films Dog Soldiers (2002) and The Descent (2005), the science fiction action film Doomsday (2008), the historical war film Centurion (2010), the superhero action film Hellboy (2019), and the adventure horror film The Reckoning (2020).Marshall has also directed numerous television series, including two episodes of the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones: "Blackwater" and "The Watchers on the Wall", the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.TICKETS ARE LIMITED

SHORTS BLOCK – CONFLICT

Eight magnificent short films in one blockPATH TO ECSTACY - A lost teen is abandoned by his alcoholic stepfather, and spurred on a desperate search for connection within the same group he also wishes to escape from.DYING TO MEET YOU - A hotel lobby in Depression America is the crucible where a brilliant, ruined drunk battles his demons one last time. This true story reveals what happens on the day Bill Wilson turns down a drink and creates Alcoholics Anonymous.INTERNAL ABYSS - As Mia battles the effects of both her broken home and her toxic relationship, her loneliness grows, and hope is fading. Will she find hope and a route to follow, or will life always be this Internal Abyss?SEASALTER ROAD - Following the sudden [...]

ONLY HUMAN

Feature Film ScreeningSasha (a 30 year old orphan) and his girlfriend Laura are preparing to move from Russia to Spain. But there is a hidden problem: Sasha merely pretends to be a happy person. When he ultimately finds his mother, who gave him away as a newborn over 30 years ago, he comes to realize that he cannot carry on pretending as if everything was ok. He literally tries to go back in time in order to forgive the person who supposed be his mother. *THE FILM HAS BEEN BANNED IN RUSSIA* Chulpan Khamatova, the most famous actress in Russia (who played one of the main roles in ONLYHUMAN) spoke about how she is against the Russian War in Ukraine which led to the film [...]

NEIFF 2023 Industry Networking Party

ChachaBuchi 28-32 Collingwood Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1JF, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, GB

The North East International Film Festival invites you to join us for an Industry Networking Party like no other, with drinks and canapesJoin the NEIFF for our third year Opening Ceremony Industry Networking Party. A fun filled evening of boozing and schmoozing.Tickets include admission, a welcome drink, canapes and networking in the private chalet and also free access to the four adjoining venues with club should you decide to go wild!Newcastle’s chicest hideout, ChaChaBuchi, offers rustic glamour in a sophisticated setting. With bark lined walls, magical chalet private function room, and glowing golden staircase leading to our mezzanine hangout. Their decadent interiors and outdoor garden with roaring fire-pits offer the perfect backdrop for the ultimate grown-up playground and getting to know your industry peers.

INTO THE SPOTLIGHT

Feature Film ScreeningA heartfelt story of how a script, a stage, and a theater program composed of adults with disabilities celebrate their creativity, explore life’s complexities, and empower a community, in their own words and their own way— INTO THE SPOTLIGHT is a documentary feature film that follows a Dallas-based theatre troupe, composed of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who are determined to write, rehearse, and perform their 11th annual original musical during the 2021-22 season. A lot of the time documentaries that focus on disabled communities tend to be the experts explaining how these people feel, however in this doc, the film is crafted entirely from the point of view of the individuals giving them a voice. Nothing is editorialized and neither are [...]

THE FOX

Feature Film ScreeningThe Fox is the true story of Franz Streitberger, Adrian Goiginger's great-grandfather, a motorcycle courier for the Austrian Army who was soon drafted into the German Wehrmacht. At the beginning of the Second World War, the introverted young soldier encounters a wounded fox cub, which he then looks after as if it were his own child and takes with him to occupied France. Through this unique friendship with the wild animal, his own past as an outcast farmer's son, which he has always run away from, slowly catches up with him...

SHORTS BLOCK – GROWING PAINS

Eight magnificent short films in one blockTHE DATE - Sasha, a loud mouthed thirteen-year-old goes on her first date but when she gets turned on and takes charge of her own sexuality it reveals the confusing nature of what girls are allowed to want.ALL THE YOUNG DUDES - Georgia, USA, 1973. Glam rocker Billy rebels against his conservative high school, inspiring admiration from an unlikely ally with a desire to walk on the wild side….GHOUL - A young boy feeds his imagination of an unpleasant ghoul with the unhappy homelife that traps him and his mother. When life is clearly imitating art the pair seek solace in each other, and patch up the physical and emotional damage to carry on.THE CURE - 17-year-old Renal is [...]

MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING

Feature Film ScreeningSimon is shooting a film in India when his Uncle David calls him with a message of doom: “Come back to London, I think I may be dying.” What the viewer doesn’t yet know is that David is a Shakespeare-loving drama queen who has grown old on a diet of attention and applause. But David has no intention of dying just yet. David refuses to go into a care home. As Simon tries to figure out how he can help his anarchic and spirited uncle, David sits in his kitchen reciting King Lear, “It’s the play about an old man becoming infirm, losing his mind and giving his kingdom away” he tells his nephew. As David’s life echos the play that he loves [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – THE LIVES OF OTHERS

Eight magnificent short films in one block7 MINUTES - A desolate train track seems the perfect spot to end it all, until someone else turns up with the same idea. Awkward.BORNE - When Kate, an isolated and vulnerable young mother struggling to make ends meet, is offered help by her neighbour Marie, she finds herself pulled into a community that may not be as virtuous as it seems.RISE - Inspired by real life accounts of Iranian refugees who worked alongside the director to develop this story, we see Niloo, a teenage girl resisting the patriarchal ‘morality police’ who kidnap her from the streets of Tehran.BLOOD - Shanti finds blood in her underwear at the worst possible time. Against the backdrop of a Tamil coming-of-age ceremony [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – LIVING IN PAIN

Six magnificent films in one shorts blockNATURAL CAUSES - When downtrodden carer Carl finds his cantankerous bed-ridden Uncle Derek dead, he’s finally free! He announces the death via a text but when Derek turns out to be playing another practical joke and in fact alive, and family arrive to pay their “respects”, Carl wrestles with whether to reveal the truth or…to make Derek dead again.LES CALINS CHEAPS - Two strangers, reeling from the loss of their mutual friend, find themselves in an unexpected moment of connection on the streets of Montreal.SALLY LEAPT OUT OF A WINDOW LAST NIGHT - Ireland 1778. Two women flout convention and scandalise society to escape the fate their families plan for them. They elope. Based upon the true story of [...]

BIG SMOOTH

Feature Film ScreeningFrom basketball star to world record actor, Big Smooth is a documentary telling the life story of Neil Fingleton.

INTER-CONTINENTAL BUNKER MISSION

Feature Film ScreeningHow the f**k would one survive the nuclear apocalypse? Two friends without a clue set out on a journey to survive the end of the world. An atomic cocktail of journalistic, archival, and D.I.Y. Bunker Building, I.C.B.M. addresses the ever growing survivalism trend, the personal price of survival, and the perpetual state of preparedness the world has found itself in since the birth of the atomic bomb.

SHORTS BLOCK – PASSION & FEAR

Ten magnificent films in one shorts blockWEIGHTLESS - On a deserted East Sussex beach, a sixty-two-year-old woman struggles to face down her inner demons as she makes her way into the water.THE THRILL - A young guitarist is about to play the biggest show of his life. Things don't quite go as expected...ETERNAL HOURGLASS - An elderly woman recollects and reconnects with her past as her memories fade back to her in the form of a dance; a dream, a nightmare. Anna (80) sits in her chair day in and day out. Her previous life as an acrobat unknown to those who care for her as she lives out Nietzsche’s Eternal Return, and is constantly plunged back into her past and a terrible choice she [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – TWO SIDES

Eight magnificent short films in one blockDO AS I SAY - A middle-aged piano teacher mourns her failed career as a concert pianist with a drink always in hand. Grappling with this aching disappointment and unfulfilled legacy, she is pushed to the end of her tether by the rebellious student she once perceived as her younger self.ROUND TWO - In Round Two we meet Hanne and Danel who have just had a successful date and ended up at Hanne’s place. Here a breakdown of communication in an intimate situation, leads a blossoming romance into muddled waters, making them both feel confused and hurt, while leaving the audience pondering important and difficult questions about the grey areas of what constitutes abuse.IN YOUR HANDS - Late evening [...]

TALES OF JAN MAYEN

Feature Film ScreeningA team sails to the remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen to recreate the 1921 British expedition to summit the world’s northernmost volcano, Mount Beerenberg. They conduct marine science, alongside discovering how climate change is affecting the volcano’s glaciers today.

SHORTS BLOCK – LIAR LIAR

Nine magnificent short films in one blockPAY BACK - A wealthy property developer goes to the top floor of an art gallery to pay the ransom for his kidnapped son. But when the lift mysteriously stops halfway up the building, he must quickly work out if the young man he is trapped with is just an innocent tourist – or the kidnapper.LIAR - Abisola uses her imagination to hide from her home life, until her friends find out.EVERYTHING IS OUT TO GET ME - A 1950's housewife, struggling with her mental health, reflects on her failed marriage and history of domestic abuse. Her depression is fueled by the fact that her ex-husband now appears to be happily re-married with a newborn baby. But there's more [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – SOMEWHERE ELSE

Nine magnificent films in one shorts blockTHE EAGLE'S GIFT - Abandoned at birth by her father, a young girl enduring a toxic relationship with her alcoholic mother, finds the courage to escape this life in search of true happiness and liberation.SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Amy dreams of being a musical star on the West End stage - but when her boss threatens to fire her from her day job, she must push her performance to a whole new level.THE MOON FOLLOWED ME TO FALMOUTH - A seafarer sings the story of how he, as a young man, left Falmouth looking for a new life on the High Seas. During his voyage, he recounts how the moon began to follow him, watching his every move. After months [...]

EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE LOVED

Feature Film ScreeningA blisteringly hot summer day. Psychotherapist Ina notices something is wrong with her. But she doesn't have time to worry about it: Patients are waiting at the practice, her daughter is threatening to move in with her father, her boyfriend wants to emigrate to Finland, and her self-centred mother is celebrating her 70th birthday. Ina wants to please everyone. But then everything changes.

BECOMING, BEING MOM

Short Film ScreeningFour women share the joys and challenges they’ve experienced with pregnancy, birth and raising children, as they contemplate their identities both in and outside of motherhood. Through elevating these perspectives, “Becoming, Being Mom” seeks to initiate and destigmatize conversations surrounding motherhood, while also empowering all generations of women to feel comfortable in sharing their own stories.

SHORTS BLOCK – CHILDSPLAY

Seven magnificent short films in one blockWIDER THAN THE SKY - Jenny's father has been diagnosed with Cancer. To cope, this deeply creative child makes scenes inside shoeboxes into which she escapes. One day a chance encounter with a seemingly ordinary cafe owner provides the catalyst for a truly magical happening.FATHER'S DAY - Father’s Day is a short film about Alakhe a 12-year-old boy who is raised by a single mother. Being the nerd of the class, Alakhe is selected to give a speech for a Father’s Day school event. He decides to go against his mother’s word and sets out to find the father he’s never met which opens a can of worms. Eventually he discovers who his real father is.FORT TOM - Spiteful [...]

HEADSPACE

Feature Animation ScreeningThe film starts with a freak accident, where Gus, Sophie, and Max of the Andromeda Galactic Bureau of Investigation (AGBI) and their microscopically minuscule rust-bucket of a spaceship, The Rusty Nail, take up residence inside 14-year-old Norman’s brain. They can see what he can see and hear what he can hear. The nanosized crime fighting aliens must enlist Norman’s help to save Earth from Zolthard, an evil intergalactic villain who is now stuck in the school principal’s head. Norman, his friends, and the aliens must go to great lengths to conceal the presence of alien life at their high school, while they try to continue the galactic struggle between good and evil. After all, Zolthard still has a school to run, and Norman [...]

REFUGIA

Short Film ScreeningA Refugia is a place of refuge where species survive through crisis. More than ever, now is the time to recognize and support those committed to the protection and preservation of these Refugia. It is in the everyday that we find our true heroes now, those who are focused on the betterment of our place here on earth. Through a positive lens, Liana Cornell, activates her inescapable urge to do more, and gains a deeper understanding of the current crises in nature, and the people devoted to preventing them. From the perspective of the five elements present in every living thing – earth, air, fire, water, spirit – Refugia reveals the good work undertaken by unsung heroes, communities and companies, dedicated to nurturing [...]

THE SANCTUARY SEEKERS OF BRADFORD

Short Film ScreeningAs governments around the world face the impact of the growing number of displaced people, the city of Bradford in the north of England is known as a city of sanctuary for refugees and asylum seekers, and has a rich heritage of welcoming those fleeing their homes. This 30 minute documentary film follows the lives of three Bradford residents from different walks of life; retired train driver Mick, primary school worker Hamida and settled refugee Asumani, as they each show practical care and kindness to refugees and asylum seekers living in the city. Offering friendship and a warm welcome, they help people overcome the many obstacles faced in the long and challenging journey of rebuilding their lives in the UK.

HER INK

Feature Film ScreeningDirector Statement The first time I came across paramedical tattooing I was still living in the United States and I found the concept of treating scars with three-dimensional biological tattoos extremely intriguing. I was already a big fan of tattooing, but I had never heard of paramedical tattooing. However, as I researched the topic, I came across some impressive stats that showcased the social benefits of mastectomy cover up tattoos. Specifically, the 3D nipple tattoos that were designed and tattooed on the breasts of the women who have undergone a full mastectomy. In a large number of cases, these tattoos were saving marriages and saving lives by uplifting the self-esteem of women who have lost intimate parts of their body. However, this was [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – MORE TO LIFE

Nine magnificent short films in one blockALL AT SEA - Stephen remembers adventures at the seaside where anything seemed possible. Unfortunately, adult life didn't pan out as he had dreamed. Or is there time for transformation yet?IRIS - Unable to break up with long-term girlfriend Julia face-to-face, Tom turns to a shadowy organisation to clone himself. When he changes his mind, he’s forced to return home to confront his other half – both of them.IRINA - A wall of trees. Her sudden urges to break out of the cold loneliness lead to nothing. When a sudden impact leads Irina to choose between owning or ending her life.HELEN OF TROY'S - While everyone including her boyfriend has gone off to Uni having all the sex, Helen [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – ALTERNATE REALITY

Eight magnificent short films in one blockDREAM BIG - Miranda is a woman who has dedicated herself to her job but when the interview day for a big promotion comes up, she is overlooked in favour of a man who is everything she's not. Returning home, she takes refuge in her hobby, her model railway. Fuelled by anger she paints a figure to resemble the man who pipped her to the post and maniacally runs over him with a tiny train. At work the next day, she is shocked to find that her revenge fantasy has played out in real life, her competitor is in hospital after an accident on the railway tracks. Miranda is given her dream job in his stead. Miranda can’t quite [...]

FABULOUS FEMININITIES

Feature Film ScreeningFabulous Femininities is a captivating feature-length documentary that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives and journeys of six extraordinary burlesque performers from across the United Kingdom. Through this documentary, the film aims to challenge misconceptions surrounding burlesque and showcase its empowering nature as a celebration of body positivity, creativity, and self-expression.

GOTHAM: THE FALL AND RISE OF NEW YORK

Feature Film ScreeningGotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city with over 2200 murders, 93,000 violent robberies and 147,000 car thefts in 1990 become the capitol of the world a mere handful of years later? This feature documentary explores what happened during these decades, told by the people who did the hard work, some at great personal and professional cost. From Fear City to the City of Dreams. Hear about the greatest American turnaround story from the people who made it happen.

SHORTS BLOCK – ALONE

Six magnificent short films in one blockA WALK HOME - A young woman walks home alone after finishing work, but a city at night lets her imagination run wild and plagues her with fear.THE ISLAND - A man has to learn survival skills to cope on an island, but not everything is as it seems.THE WAKE - A restless 15-year-old has spent his life surrounded by death, raised in his parents' funeral business in a small town USA. Viewing his alcoholic father as profiting from the dead, our hero does him one better: While a wake is held in his parents' funeral home, he breaks into the deceased's house, counting on the place being empty. In his view, the dead no longer need what he [...]

SHORTS BLOCK – FORGIVE ME

Eight magnificent short films in one blockROSE OF ARMAGH - Set in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1983. Rose of Armagh is the story of a Father & Daughter, on their way home in the depths of mid-winter. How a Daughter mistakingly seals her Father’s fate with a rose after a stop & search at a checkpoint on the border of County Armagh leads to a witch hunt within Sinn Féin.TELL ME YOU LOVE ME - Based on a true story - A rooftop party for two, a brother & sister celebrate their love. She has escaped from a violent husband but her scars run deep. She makes the ultimate choice.CAGES - With Maggie's pet shop days away from foreclosure, desperation drives her down a path [...]

NORTH EAST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 – CLOSING AWARDS GALA

The Biscuit Factory 16 Stoddart Street, Shieldfield, NE2 1AN, Shieldfield, England, GB

Join us for an evening of special guests, dinner, drinks, entertainment, awards and glamour at our VIP red carpet NEIFF Closing Awards GalaJoin us in celebration of the UK's fastest growing Film Festival, the youngest ever BIFA qualifying and the only carbon negative festival in the world, for NEIFF 2023. The North East International Film Festival Closing Awards Gala will begin at 7pm in a stroll down our red carpet towards the gallery for welcome drinks, media and networking opportunities and musical entertainment. After welcome drinks, guests will be taken down to the beautiful Biscuit Room where they will be seated for a three course artisan meal (with a choice of 2 dishes per course), locally bottled water provided by our drinks sponsors Northumbria Spring [...]

SEIZE THEM!

Star And Shadow Cinema Warwick Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1BB, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, GB

An Escapes exclusive free screening! Brimming with warmth, humour and swordfights, SEIZE THEM! is a comedy road movie set in the dark ages. The egotistical and clueless Queen Dagan is toppled from her throne. She’ll need help to survive as a fugitive and win back her kingdom. With her new friends, a castle worker and a shit shoveler, she begins her quest for justice.

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