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| We have two free film screenings coming up both featuring a wonderful selection of archive film. | |  | Asunder + Director's Q&A
Wednesday 16th August 7:30pm
Book your free tickets online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/382766
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 As part of our 'In Focus' strand of screenings we are very pleased to present this free screening of Asunder with a Q&A session from Director/Co Producer Esther Johnson. Asunder tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men abroad fighting and its women and children left behind. The North East was in the front line, thanks to its shipyards and munitions factories. Using archive and contemporary footage and audio, Asunder collages the stories of people from Tyneside and Wearside to uncover what life was like on the home front, with bombs falling on Britain for the first time, conscientious objectors sentenced to death, and women working as doctors, tram conductors and footballers. The narrative moves from an Edwardian golden era, in which sport grew in popularity and aircraft and cars pointed to a bright new future, to a war that horrifically reversed this progress. In the Battle of the Somme, commencing on 1 July 1916, British, French and German armies fought one of the most traumatic battles in military history. Over the course of just four months, more than one million soldiers were captured, wounded or killed in a confrontation of unimaginable horror. The narration for the film is voiced by journalist Kate Adie, with the actor Alun Armstrong as the voice of the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. A film by Esther Johnson, with a soundtrack composed by Sunderland's Mercury-nominated Field Music and Newcastle's Warm Digits, performed with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and The Cornshed Sisters. 'a fascinating kaleidoscope'
Chronicle ★★★★★
Find out more & view the trailer here: http://blanchepictures.com/asunder/ Asunder is co-commissioned by
Sunderland Cultural Partnership and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Sunderland Business Improvement District, Culture Bridge North East and Sir James Knott Trust. "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | Britain On Film: Railways (U) Saturday 9th September 2:00pm
Book your free tickets online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/387610
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Once again for National Heritage Open Days we are pleased to present a free archive film screening. Your chance to travel back to a time when travelling by rail was comfortable, punctual and maybe even glamorous! One of the programmes from ICO's new archive tour, Britain on Film: Railways is a major new collection of rare archive films charting the history of the UK's railways and bringing home the romance and heady freedoms offered by train travel as it expanded across the country in the early 20th century. Sourced from the national and regional archives and newly digitised, Britain on Film: Railways is an immensely nostalgic and evocative collection of films which document not just the glories of the railway, but also the changing social, political and economic climates of the 20th century. Please note: the programme contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect audience members with photosensitive epilepsy. Before the screening please join us in The Willow Community Garden for our annual Vintage Garden Party 12:15pm - 1:30pm Directors: Various 1898-1970 Supported by: BFI Part of Britain On Film Our Lives Our Stories "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | | |
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