The Farrell Centre will be playing three short films of mine from September 19th within their exhibition “Concrete Dreams”. These films are reworked extracts from my PhD project “Brasília of the North” at Newcastle University, a forthcoming feature length documentary.
Earlier this year, I was asked by the Centre for Researching Cities at Newcastle University to make a short documentary on the theme of the “good city”
The volunteer-run Star and Shadow Cinema has just reopened on Warwick Street, a few streets away from its original home on Stepney Bank.
Everyman Cinemas is set to open a new arthouse cinema on Grey Street to rival Tyneside Cinema. But with declining interest in specialised films is this decision viable?
Ken Loach’s latest film is set in Newcastle and stars Dave Johns as a traditional Geordie facing up to the challenge of living and getting by in 21st century England.
T. Dan Smith remains as one of Tyneside’s most controversial political figures. Hero or villain? Visionary or crook? Smith’s legacy distilled into four narratives.
How three new films – The Act of Killing, Waltz with Bashir and Leviathan – play with documentary history.
