Flatpack Film Festival
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Flatpack Festival is a film festival
that takes place annually in Birmingham, England. During the festival a variety of different films and media forms are shown, including animation, documentaries, short films, music videos and experimental cinema, amongst others. The Fifth Flatpack Festival will run from 23–27 March 2011.
The festival takes place across numerous venues in Digbeth
, a former industrial area of the city that is now attempting to become Birmingham's art district. Major venues to screen films include the Electric Cinema
and the Ikon Gallery
.
Flatpack Festival is produced by 7 Inch Cinema, and supported by Arts Council England
, UK Film Council
, Birmingham City Council
, ScreenWM, Businesslink WM, and the French Cultural Institute. The festival's current directors are Ian Francis and Pip McKnight.
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
that takes place annually in Birmingham, England. During the festival a variety of different films and media forms are shown, including animation, documentaries, short films, music videos and experimental cinema, amongst others. The Fifth Flatpack Festival will run from 23–27 March 2011.
The festival takes place across numerous venues in Digbeth
Digbeth
Digbeth is an area of Birmingham, England. Following the destruction of the Inner Ring Road, Digbeth is now considered a district within Birmingham City Centre. As part of the Big City Plan, Digbeth is undergoing a large redevelopment scheme that will regenerate the old industrial buildings into...
, a former industrial area of the city that is now attempting to become Birmingham's art district. Major venues to screen films include the Electric Cinema
Electric Cinema
The Electric Cinema is a cinema and sound recording facility in Birmingham, England. It opened in Station Street in 1909, showing its first silent film on 27 December of that year, and is now the oldest working cinema in the country. It predates its namesake, the Electric Cinema in Notting Hill,...
and the Ikon Gallery
Ikon Gallery
The Ikon Gallery is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877. The gallery's current director is Jonathan Watkins.Ikon was set up to...
.
Flatpack Festival is produced by 7 Inch Cinema, and supported by Arts Council England
Arts Council England
Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...
, UK Film Council
UK Film Council
The UK Film Council was set up in 2000 by the Labour Government as a non-departmental public body to develop and promote the film industry in the UK. It was constituted as a private company limited by guarantee governed by a board of 15 directors and was funded through sources including the...
, Birmingham City Council
Birmingham City Council
The Birmingham City Council is the body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974. It is the most populated local authority in the United Kingdom with, following a reorganisation of boundaries in June 2004, 120 Birmingham...
, ScreenWM, Businesslink WM, and the French Cultural Institute. The festival's current directors are Ian Francis and Pip McKnight.