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 The 5th Hull International Short Film Festival will take place at venues around the city from 27 September – 1 October 2006. During my time at Shooters
I was lucky enough to spend a few days in the city at then-director
Catherine Litchfield's invitation. There was fantastic veggie food at a
place called Hitchcocks, some great shorts, experimental open mic style screenings and the chance to hang with the Austrian Virgil Widrich, who made masterpiece shorts Fast Film and Copyshop. Coupled with the bachinale of the legendary TAZ-like
Hut Street parties and being on the festival's expense account I could
only conclude that this was the best small film festival I'd been to,
and have been raving about the city ever since. Anyway, the programme
includes...
The Open Road: The Films of Friese-Greene
with live piano accompaniment;
a 50th anniversary programme of films
from the great British Free Cinema movement;
Locality programme Made in
Yorkshire; treats from the Yorkshire Film Archive showing Hull from the
fishing industry to Hull Fair;
Special Atlas programmes focusing on
films from Hull's twin city Freetown in Sierra Leone and a programme of
German film;
Channel 4 Four Docs presentation of methods of alternative
short film distribution and a screening of a selection of 4 minute
documentaries;
Artists' film and video programmes Crossing Boundaries
including a retrospective of celebrated Edinburgh based short-filmmaker
Matt Hulse;
Sign Language Cinema
programme focusing on issues of deafness with BSL interpreted
introduction;
outdoor Big Shot screenings on the BBC Big Screen
including children's short film and animation; filmmaking workshops and
discussions, festival films award ceremony;
TRAILERS, which sees five
shipping containers situated around the City of Hull containing
specially commissioned films for the festival and finally the Hull Film
party and a special surprise closing event!
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