ACTRESS Emily Watson will introduce her Oscar-winning film at the From Page to Screen Festival next week.
The Theory of Everything will be introduced at the UK's only film festival dedicated to the adaptation of books into film next Saturday, ahead of a screening of the film at Bridport Arts Centre.
From Page to Screen will take place in Bridport between Wednesday April 8 and Sunday April 12.
The Theory of Everything is based on renowned physicist Stephen Hawking's battle with motor neurone disease and his relationship with his wife Jane Wilde. Watson plays Jane's mother in the film, which starts Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones and is based on Hawkin's bestseller A Brief History of Time.
Director of Bridport Arts Centre Laura Cockett said: "We are looking forward to welcoming Emily to From Page to Screen and talking to her about her incredible career and the extraordinary and uplifting story of one of the world's greatest living minds."
Bridport Film Society has been invited to curate the films for screening at the 11am ‘arts and retro’ slot of this year’s festival - with showings of Bicycle Thieves, The Grapes of Wrath, Persepolis, Night of the Hunter and Jules and Jim.
From Page to Screen will also welcome best-selling author Deborah Moggach, who will be speaking ahead of a screening of British comedy-drama The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - adapted from Deborah's novel These Foolish Things.
Dame Harriet Walter, best known for her work in the theatre, will talk ahead of a screening of Suite Française - an upcoming romantic Second World War drama film directed by Saul Dibb and co-written with Matt Charman. The film is based on Irene Nemirovsky’s 2004 novel of the same name, starring Michelle Williams and Kristen Scott Thomas and centres on a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the early years of the German occupation of France. The speaker has also chosen her favourite adaptation, John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant's Woman, which was filmed in Lyme Regis, to be screened at the festival.
A range of films will be screened over five days at Bridport Arts Centre and the Electric Palace.
For the full programme and more information, visit frompagetoscreen.org.uk
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