Lucky 13th year for Purbeck Film Festival (From Dorset Echo)

Lucky 13th year for Purbeck Film Festival

6:00pm Wednesday 7th October 2009

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THE biggest and longest running rural film festival in the country starts in Dorset this month.

The Purbeck Film Festival, now in its 13th year, will once again bring a selection of more than 80 films to fans across the area.

And for the first time it has opened its doors to amateur and student film-makers, whose work will feature alongside blockbusters, classics, art house and foreign cinema throughout the three-week event. The festival launches on October 16 at the Rex Cinema in Wareham (now owned by the Purbeck Film Festival Charitable Trust) with The Seven Year Itch, the 1955 classic starring Marilyn Monroe.

The iconic star will pop up a number of times throughout the three weeks.

Before the main event will be a showing of film short The Donor, which tells the story of two people who find love in the unlikely surroundings of a sperm donor clinic.

The festival is also hosting The Purbeck Shorts, a student film competition, on October 28 at the Rex.

The festival runs from October 16 to 31 at venues including the Lighthouse in Poole, the Lookout Café at Durlston Castle, Swanage, and Bournemouth University’s Allsebrook Theatre, as well as a host of village halls.

Full details are available at purbeckfilm.org.uk

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