Welcome to the Whitley Bay Film Festival!
The Whitley Bay Film Festival celebrates great films in great locations, in a town without a cinema. No matter what your age or interest, there’s something for everyone…
If you would like to get involved in Whitley Bay Film Festival 2012, please complete our Participation Form
We look forward to hearing from you!
In 2011 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. Last 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 featured screenings of classic features, independent short films, local audiovisual archive footage of our area, children’s screenings and artist’s film and video.
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.
Ian La Frenais, is Patron of the Whitley Bay Film Festival.
Ian La Frenais, OBE, born in Whitley Bay worked in partnership with Dick Clement on television series including, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
They also worked together on a number of films, including The Commitments (with Roddy Doyle), Goal, Still Crazy, Flushed Away and many more.
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
We’d like to thank the following for their support;
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
