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Forthcoming PoetryFilm Events

I am delighted to announce a series of forthcoming PoetryFilm projects – both in the UK and overseas. 

 

April 2015

Transmutations poetry film event at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland (UK), 15-18 April 2015 [co-curated by PoetryFilm and Alchemy]

PoetryFilm at Wenlock Poetry Festival, Wenlock (UK), 23-26 April 2015

PoetryFilm at sound acts festival, Athens (Greece), 23-26 April 2015

 

May 2015

PoetryFilm at The Groucho Club, London (UK)

PoetryFilm at Cannes Film Festival

 

June 2015

PoetryFilm in Denmark

 

July 2015

PoetryFilm at Penzance Literature Festival, Cornwall (UK), 9 July 2015

PoetryFilm in Reykjavik (Iceland), 16 July 2015

 

August 2015

PoetryFilm returns to The ICA Cinema, London (UK), 16 August 2015

PoetryFilm in Denmark

PoetryFilm News: October 2014

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A Month of Film Festivals

It has been a busy month of film festivals and I enjoyed both the BFI Film Festival (in London) and the Zebra Poetry Film (in Berlin).

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Menu Screen for PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation

The event took place on 26 September 2014.

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Programme: PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation, September 2014

Below are full programme details for PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation which took place in September 2014.

There was a live BSL interpreter at this event.

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Watch “London” (one of the shortlisted poetry films in the Shot Through the Heart competition)

Watch “London” below, one of the shortlisted poetry films in the Southbank Centre’s “Shot Through The Heart” poetry film competition.

The poem was written by Sophie Herxheimer and the film was made by Joseph Gifford Tutt.

Southbank Centre’s “Shot Through the Heart” Poetry Film Competition: Shortlist

(The below press release is taken from the Southbank Centre’s blog and was published on 15 July 2014.)

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Southbank Centre is very proud to announce the shortlisted poetry films for its inaugural poetry film competition. Shot Through the Heart Poetry Film competition received entries from all over the world and judges selected 10 films to showcase at the prize giving evening in the Purcell Room at Southbank Centre as part of Poetry International Festival on Friday 19 July. 

There were two prizes – one for films made for adults and one for films made for children – all inspired by the themes of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love.

The shortlisted films for adults were:

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