It’s been really interesting to read everyone’s responses to our audience survey 2013. Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond. Your feedback will help us to improve and help us secure future funding. We thought, in case you’re interested that we’d share some of the results, so here’s a brief summary. Just over […]
It’s here, the Bedford Film Festival programme. Read about our history, what’s in store, who’s doing what and see our entire listings at-a-glance. Use the links on the left of the programme to download your very own PDF. Bedford Film Festival 2013 Programme by Bedford Film Festival on Newspaper Club
Trying out something new, something unknown, is not an easy decision. You might feel like you’re going to waste your time, or even worse waste some cash. But stepping into the unknown can create brand new experiences that open up a much richer, more varied world to you. Bedford Film Festival believes that everyone should […]
In little under two weeks’ time Bedford Film Festival will be screening films that have never before been shown publicly in our town, or anywhere else. The festival has been organised at record speed. Just 12 weeks ago Richard, Stephen and I sat outside The Pantry at The Higgins Bedford and decided to put on a […]
As one of our Saturday night films we asked Jon Sanders to tell us about his film, Back to the Garden. We think you’ll find the tale of how the film came about and the tale it tells quite interesting. It’s showing on 28 September at 19:00, The Higgins Bedford. Tickets are just £5. Back To […]
It’s here, now you can see for yourself what all the hard work, planning, begging, borrowing, sponsorship, early mornings and late nights have created for the first ever Bedford Film Festival. Tickets will be available very soon so for now, please search our pages, learn all about our history, the people behind the project and the films, documentaries and workshops being brought to […]
It’s absolutely incredible to be sitting here writing this blog post knowing that in just four weekends time Bedford Film Festival will be in full swing. It’s been a hectic three months, since first getting together, as we’ve discussed themes, ideas, venues, sponsors, artwork, websites, workshops, guests and oh, yeah, films. When the idea of a film festival […]
It’s only a few days to go until Bedford Film Festival host the Bedford public premier of ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ as part of Bedfringe. To say we are excited is an understatement. This Oscar-winning documentary has a phenomenal 96% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.1/10 rating at IMDB.com. If you’re still not sure if it’s for […]
Bedford Film Festival will be giving film fans a taste of things to come with exclusive screenings of films, never before shown publicly in Bedford, as part of Bedfringe 2013. The films, being shown on 20 July 2013 at Ground Floor Coffee Shop, include the incredible tale of musician Sixto Rodriguez in the Oscar-winning documentary […]
French actress Marion Cotillard may never know how much of a catalyst she was for getting Bedford Film Festival into a working idea. We’d often wondered why the film variety in Bedford was so poor. We’re not all film fanatics or experts and we controversially enjoy Hollywood blockbusters but we’d also like to see a variety of genres. We’d […]