North West filmmakers were screened at the film and digital media festival of Chester ,England. Ten short films ranged from a documentary about prisoners attending a patchwork and quilt making course, to a four minute clay animation which were followed by a panel discussion at the Screen Deva event. Screen Deva is Chester’s very own film and digital media festival. All around Chester there will be digital media projects by local artists and outdoor movies being shown in Chester’s local parks.
Last year’s success, helped this years bigger and better program. It included 18 feature length outdoor films, which were screened in the park and at many other unusual venues. Even the Chester Hotel participated in allowing screening in the lobby of the hotel. There was a 48 hour mass participation film challenge, there were wonderful opportunities for budding filmmakers where they got to create and showcase their work. Screen Deva has created a fantastic opportunity to embrace an emerging artists of media and bring forth and enjoy indie and arthouse films in an outdoor cinema setting.
Panelist were shown films upstairs at the Screen Deva Studio. They watched Kate Jessop’s ‘When the Telescope Came’, an animated tale based on a poem where a woman tries to stop the stars from coming into her house. Martin Talbot’s ‘Northern Cowboys’, where singers battled it out at a talent show in Blackpool to win a trip to Nashville and a documentary from Fiona Collins about prisoners and quilting. The panel answered questions form an audience of over 40 festival goers and they discussed their own journey’s from being a first time filmmaker to their now global fame and also offering valuable tips. I’m heading off to the interactive exhibition with is staged downstairs at the Scree Deva Studio. I keep thinking that maybe I should fill the screenplay that floats around in my head all the time. What, now that we have a legitimate Film Festival.
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