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Tickets - £10 Available here
Tickets will also be available from the Customer First Center, Whitley Bay from 30 July
Whitley Bay Film Festival
2026
We're back!
Over the years our patron Ian La Frenais, has invited some amazing guests to our humble film festival and this year is no exception.
We're excited to announce that
Ian will be here on the 5th September, for the launch of this year's festival to introduce a very special guest, highly acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield.
See HERE for more details.
and that's not all...
September Programme
Sat 5th Sep -
*Special Festival Launch Event*
Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love CERT 15
with special guest Nick Broomfield.
The Crescent Club
Thur 10th Sep -
The Illusionist 2010 CERT PG
Rendezvous Cafe
Sun 13th Sep -
45th Anniversary - Raiders of the Lost Ark CERT PG
Jam Jar Cinema
Thur 17th Sep -
Centenary anniversary The General 1926 CERT U
with a live soundtrack performed by The Mediators
Stephenson Steam Railway Museum
Fri 18th Sep
My Father and Me 2019 CERT U Nick Broomfield
The Fishermens's mission, Cullercoats
Sat 19th Sep
Behind the Rent Strike 1974 CERT U Nick Broomfield
The Fishermens's mission, Cullercoats
Sat 19th Sep
The Filleting Machine 1981 CERT 15 Amber Films
The Fishermens's mission, Cullercoats
Sat 19th Sep
In Fading Light 1989 CERT 15 Amber Films
The Fishermens's mission, Cullercoats
Sun 20th Sep
TBC - Dr Strangelove 1964 CERT PG
Jam Jar Cinema, Whitley Bay
Mon 21st Sep
Play Misty For Me 1971 CERT 15
St Mary's Lighthouse
Tues 22nd Sep
Arthouse Lighthouse
St Mary's Lighthouse
Tues 22nd Sep
20th Anniversary - Flushed Away CERT U
St Mary's Lighthouse
Tues 22nd Sep
Enys Men 2022 CERT 15
St Mary's Lighthouse
Wed 23rd Sep
When Worlds Collide 1951 CERT PG
St Mary's Lighthouse
Wed 23rd Sep
The Truman Show 1998 CERT PG
St Mary's Lighthouse
Thur 24th Sep
20th Anniversary - It's Nice Up North with special guest Graham Fellows
CERT U
The Crescent Club
Sat 26th Sep
40th Anniversary - Labyrinth
CERT PG
Seaton Delaval Hall
Please note/ we often film our events. If you are attending our events and don't wish to be filmed please let us know. Any filming we do is to document our events and we might eventually make the film we've planning for years...
*Special Guest* Graham Fellows (AKA John Shuttleworth) will be here to celebrate the 20th anniversary of It's Nice Up North.
*We'll be celebrating the Centenary anniversary of Buster Keaton's The General with an original live, electronic soundtrack performed by The Mediators in the fantastic setting of The Stephenson Steam Railway Museum*
*Seaton Delaval Hall will be the setting for the 40th anniversary screening of Jim Henson's Labyrinth*
Across September the festival will tour some favourite (and some new) venues for classic film events. There'll be screenings at The Crescent Club, St Mary's Lighthouse, the Rendezvous Cafe, Jam Jar Cinema, showcasing a range of films from classic favourites, 50s Sci Fi, 80s Horror, Animations, Documentaries and a wonderful chance to see a double bill of local writer, Tom Hadaway's works with Amber Films at the Fishermen's Mission in Cullercoats.
Bill Nighy & Ian La Frenais - 'Still Crazy'.
2022
Roger Daltrey - 40th Anniversary 'Tommy' 2015
Tony Iommi & Dick Carruthers - 'The End of The End'.
Moderator Chris Phipps 2018
Special Thanks to venues:
Rendezvous Cafe
St Mary's Lighthouse
Seaton Delaval Hall
Stephenson Steam Railway Museum
Cullercoats Methodist Fishermen's Mission
Cullercoats Crescent Club
Jam Jar Cinema
and also...
This festival is produced and delivered by volunteers. We do it because we love it.
Tickets sales support us massively by covering our costs. Thank you.
We'd like to do more but funding nowadays is even more difficult than it was when we first launched in 2010 and costs are higher. We are actively looking for funding/sponsorship support to enable us to plan our 2027 festival.
Please get in touch if you would like to get involved.
(or come and say hello if you are at any of our events)
Email us: info@whitleybayfilmfestival.org
Dexter Fletcher - 'Rocketman' .
Moderator Chris Jackson 2024
Festival Team:
Director - Ema Lea Daggett, Primate Productions Ltd. Technical manager – James Manningham
Team – Steve Daggett, Mal Sinyard, John Oswell, Iain Heslop, Joyce Jobe, Chris Maynard, Tracey Tofield, Pansy Morton, Russell Pilling, Paul Harvey, Stephanie Saunders, Peter Brady, Cloudy Manningham, Dave Turnbull, Dave Shaw.
more to be
announced...