Welcome to the Whitley Bay Film Festival!
The Whitley Bay Film Festival celebrates great films in great locations. No matter what your age or interest, there’s something for everyone…
This year the action took place in Whitley Bay’s most iconic venues; St Mary’s Lighthouse, the Spanish City Dome, The Trojan Rooms and a number of other locations across the town.
Our screenings are themed events creating a unique experience for visitors. This years events included; the Lighthouse screening of John Carpenter’s 1980’s classic horror ‘The Fog’ also the original King Kong, a celebration of Sci Fi films, a Classic Horror night and Dirty Dancing in the iconic Spanish City Dome.
The festival features screenings of classic features, independent short films, local audiovisual archive footage of our area, children’s screenings, artist’s films.
Whitley Bay Film Festival is a community, ‘not for profit’ annual event organised by Primate Productions Ltd and made possible by the support of local business’s and volunteers. We all provide our time in kind. We do this because we love film and we love our town! We welcome any support to help us make this an annual event.
Enjoy…
Ian La Frenais, is Patron of the Whitley Bay Film Festival.
A statement from our Patron:
“I am honoured and delighted to be a patron of the first Whitley Bay Film Festival which I’m sure will become a consistent event in the cultural landscape of the area. My only consolation at not being there personally is that work prevented it. As much as Dick and I are grateful for and proud of our legacy it is the next thing which is always the most important and, happily, there are several next things in the pipeline including a B.B.C. drama and features. Hopefully one of the latter could be shown at next year’s Festival.” Ian La Frenais 2010
Whitley Bay Film Festival – 2011 programme
Friday 19th August 2011
6.00 pm to 8pm Meeting @ The Trojan Rooms Arthouses 2011
6.30 pm Scooter Rally, starting and finishing @ The Trojan Rooms
Doors Open 7.30pm Quadrophenia @ The Trojan Rooms
Saturday 20th August 2011
2.30 pm Door Open Community Shorts @ The Trojan Rooms
6.00 pm to 8pm Meeting @ The Trojan Rooms Arthouses 2011
7.00 pm Door Open: Independent Shorts @ The Trojan Rooms
8.30 pm Doors Open: Secret Cinema
Sunday 21st August 2011
2.30 pm Archive Footage @ The Trojan Rooms
6.00 pm to 8pm Meeting @ The Trojan Rooms Arthouses 2011
8.00 pm Doors Open: Soup @ 8 with Super 8 films and a live soundtrack
Monday 22nd August 2011
11.00 am Doors Open Pirate Party @ The Lighthouse
2.30pm Doors Open: The Goonies @ The Lighthouse
8.00pm Doors Open The Fog (1980) @ The Lighthouse
Tuesday 23rd August 2011
2.30 pm Doors Open: Kids films
7.30 pm Door Open Film Themed Buskers Night @ The Trojan Rooms
Wednesday 24th August 2011
2.30 pm Doors Open Ian La Frenais Day @ The Trojan Rooms: Flushed Away
7.30 pm Doors Open: Ian La Frenais Day @ The Trojan Rooms: Still Crazy, introduced by Chris Phipps
Thursday 25th August 2011
6.00 pm Doors Open: Classic British – Ladykillers (1955) @ The Dome
8.30 pm Doors Open: An American Werewolf in London @ The Dome
11.30 pm Doors Open: Classic British – Hammer Horror @ The Dome: Dracula
Friday 26th August 2011
6.30 pm Doors Open:Sci-Fi night Forbidden Planet, introduced by Chris Phipps @ The Dome
8.00 pm Doors Open: Sci-Fi night Lunar Space Lounge featuring Coastadelic @ The Dome
Saturday 27th August 2011
7.30 pm Doors Open: Dirty Dancing @ The Dome
11.30 pm Doors Open: The Rocky Horror Picture Show @ The Dome
Sunday 28th August 2011
6.00 pm Doors Open: King Kong @ The Dome
9.00 pm Doors Open: King Kong @ The Dome Smart Dress or Gorilla Suit.
Delaval Ices, Decorated Shed, Pantrini’s and Escape
The Movie Prop Warehouse, Black Dog Design, Aeroplanes and Harland Architecture
Age UK North Tyneside, Playhouse Whitley Bay, Emma Norris, Matt Norris, Northumbria School of English
East Coast Taxi’s and Tyne Idols
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