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UK | b&w | 90 mins | 2009
Cast: Amber Coombs, Tom Rudd, Thomas J Grube, John Hoye, Steve Lorrigan, Grant Tulley
Written and directed by Ross Shepherd from a story by Shepherd and Tom Rudd
• Low-budget thriller shot in Brighton, Hassocks and Burgess Hill. Locations include Western Road, Grand Parade/Old Steine, Palace Pier, Powis Square, St Bartholemew's Church, Brighton Station, New England Road, Upper North Street, Seven Dials, Sealife Centre.
It has been a year since William's brother David went missing. The worst year of his life, one that has left him a broken man. The day Chloe moves into his bleak apartment block, it seems there is a chance for some happiness in his life, she makes him feel different, alive. When William suddenly starts receiving mysterious messages relating to his missing brother, his fragile world is turned upside down. William must try and follow these strange clues regarding his brother to find out who is responsible for his disappearance. With Chloe at his side he embarks on a dangerous journey to discover the truth.
http://www.heathenfilm.com/
Bomber
UK/US | colour | 85 mins | 2009
Cast: Shane Taylor, Benjamin Whitrow, Eileen Nicholas
Written and directed by Paul Cotter for Boris Films
• Drama about an old man visiting a German village he accidentally bombed during the Second World War. Filmed mainly in Germany with some scenes in Brighton and Crawley.
• Paul Cotter was born in Brighton.
• The film has its own website.
http://www.bomberthemovie.com/
UK | colour | 129 mins | 2009
Cast: Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Rhys Ifans
Written and directed by Richard Curtis for Working Title and Medienproduktion Prometheus Filmgesellschaft in association with Portobello Studios and Tightrope Pictures
• Comedy about the pirate radio broadcasters of the mid 1960s. Includes scenes on Brighton beach and seafront.
Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort,Conroy, since childhood, teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle, William IV's rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives but, following her accession at age eighteen, finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance on trusty premier Melbourne. Victoria is impressed by Albert's philanthropy which is akin to her own desire to help her subjects. However her loyalty to Melbourne, perceived as a self-seeker, almost causes a constitutional crisis and it is Albert who helps restore her self-confidence.She proposes and they marry, Albert proving himself not only a devoted spouse,prepared to take an assassin's bullet for her, but an agent of much-needed reform, finally endorsed by an admiring Melbourne.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0962736/
K | colour | 85 mins | 2008, released 3 October 2008
Cast: Richard Forsyth, Randolph Barrington, Samson Byford-Winter, Laura Byford-Winter, Rue Barratt, Nathan Bellringer, Frederic Croizon, Sonny Hartley
Directed by Jerry Rothwell for APT Films and Metfilm.
• Micro-budget community-based production, filmed over four years on digital video. 'Ninjas are taking over a traditional seaside town. Terrorising locals, killing hippies, blocking supplies of marijuana. Can The Chosen One learn the ancient martial art of Ganja Boxing to save his home town and avenge his past? First he must find The Ganja Master... East meets West in a romantic seaside comedy. With ninjas.' [Film's website]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233253/
UK | colour | 91 mins | 2008, released 3 October 2008
Cast: Heavy Load (Jimmy Nichols, Michael White, Mick Williams, Paul Richards, Simon Barker)
Directed by Jerry Rothwell for APT Films and Metfilm.
• Documentary shot over two years about punk band Heavy Load ('Lewes' answer to the Ramones'), which includes some musicians with learning difficulties.
• Premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas on 10 March 2008. It won the audience prize at the BritDoc 2008 festival. Also shown at film festivals in Brooklyn, USA; Edmonston, Canada; and Monterrey, Mexico.
• The film has its own website.
• Available on DVD
http://www.heavyloadthemovie.com/
UK/US | colour | 100 mins | 2007, released 25 July 2008
Cast: Georgia Groome, Alan Davies
Written by Gurinda Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges from a novel by Louise Rennison
Directed by Gurinda Chadha
Produced by Gurinder Chadha and Michelle Fox for Goldcrest Pictures, Internationale Filmproduktion Stella-del-Süd, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Pictures
• Shot during late September 2007, locations including the beach and The Lanes [right: Camera operator Lucy Bristow tracks backwards along Meeting House Lane, past supporting artiste Celia Twining].
• The film has its own website.
• Available on DVD
http://www.angusthongsmovie.com/intl/uk/
UK | colour | 114 mins | 2008
Cast: Jos Lawton, Brian Capron, Ernest Worthing, Kristina Ann Howell, Samantha Bolter, Andrew Elias, Duncan Armitage, Judith Ellis-Jones, Sofia Sanchez, Shirley Jaffe, John Hayden
Written by Itsuka Yamasaki and Daniel Parkes
Directed by Daniel Parkes for Parkes Productions and Ferguson Pictures
• Drama about village intrigue, shot mainly in Alfriston, Sussex with actors and crew mainly from the region; scenes also shot at in Brighton at the Marina, Marine Square Gardens and Manor Way, Whitehawk
• Premiered at the End of the Pier International Film Festival in Worthing on 25 April 2009
• The film has its own website.
During the apple harvest season, a small Sussex village by the name of Ambleton is rocked by a government proposal for a nearby motorway, a concept rejected by the popular town mayor, but embraced by a talented restaurateur and chef John Miller, who is battling his own past as well as the historical village's concept of change. It ultimately leads to inspiration and devastation, as seen through the eyes of a young, unemployed restaurant pianist.
http://www.ambletondelight.co.uk/main.html
UK | colour | 75 mins | 2008
Cast: Alister O'Loughlin, Claudine Sinnett, Julian Jones, Marisa Abela, Helen Lewis
Written by Steven Rhys Lewis, Helen Reade and Mark Bowen
Directed and produced by Steven Rhys Lewis for MBX Productions
• Low-budget psychological thriller about a kidnapped man confined to an empty concrete room, watched by a security camera and broadcast live on the internet. Filmed in Bexhill-on-Sea, Brighton and Hove.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326948/
UK | colour | 85 mins | 2006, released 1 December 2006
Cast: Lorraine Stanley, Johnny Harris, Georgia Groome, Sam Spruell
Written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams.
London to Brighton• A prostitute and a young runaway girl escape from London to hide in Brighton. 'Innocence has nowhere to hide.' As The Guardian reviewer Peter Bradshaw put it: 'The journey from London to Brighton has become something else: a journey into the final circle of the inferno. ... It's the best British film of the year.'
• The film has its own website.
• Available on DVD
http://www.l2b-themovie.co.uk/
UK/US | colour | 101 mins | 2005, released 3 March 2006
Cast: Stephanie Leonidas, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon, Jason Barry, Dora Bryan, Andy Hamilton, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry
Directed by Dave McKean from a script by Neil Gaiman and McKean from Gaiman's television drama.
Produced by Jim Henson Productions
• Fantasy, mostly CGI. A 15-year-old girl from a circus family living in Brighton travels through a world in her imagination. Locations include the Peace Statue.
• Won the Black Tulip Award for Best Feature debut at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 2006 and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Sarasota Film Festival 2005.
• The film has its own website.
• Available on DVD
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/mirrormask/
UK | colour | 105 mins | 2002-2004, unreleased
Cast: Glenn Salvage, Andy Prior, Gordon Alexander Milne, Adrian Foiadelli, Kevin Akehurst, Adam Pumphrey, Phil Hobden, John Rackham
Directed by Ross Boyask
Written by Adrian Foiadelli
Produced by Phil Hobden for Modern Life in association with Big Cat Productions/Jimbo Entertainment, wholly funded by Boyask and Hobden.
• A feature-length martial arts film shot on digital video entirely on location in Brighton, representing 'a cold and unrelenting city called Hope'. The version shown in Cannes was subsequently re-made with three months of shooting, which replaced 45 per cent of the original footage.
• The film has its own website.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378238/
UK/France | colour | 98 mins | 2004, released 24 September 2004
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill, Bernard Hill, James McAvoy, Eleanor Bron
Written by Adam Brooks and Jennifer Flackett
Directed by Richard Loncraine
Produced by for Inside Track Films, Working Title Films and Studio Canal.
• The main character, an aspiring tennis player (Paul Bettany), hails from Brighton. Scenes shot on Marine Parade and Madeira Drive in the first week of September 2003.
• Available on DVD
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360201/
UK | colour | 91 mins | 2003, unreleased
Cast: Daniel Beales, Jerome Blake, Ray Bullock Jr, Michael Instone, Sarah Louise Young
Directed, written and produced by Tim Kirkby for Avalon Motion Pictures and Cryptic Coloration
• A low budget feature (£15,000, shot on digital video) set on the coast in and near Brighton [right]. As well as on the beach, at the West Pier and the Marina, the film was shot at the Ocean Rooms club in Morley Street, the Candy Bar cafe in St James's Street and several houses in Kemp Town.
• The film won Kirkby the award for best screenplay at the Milan Film Festival.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413854/
UK | colour | 75 mins | 2003, released 2004
Cast: Mark Jackson, Duncan Cowan, Johnny Oddball
Written and directed by Duncan Cowan and Mark Jackson for Digital Guerilla Filmmakers
• Comedy about two student filmmakers (Cowan and Jackson, of course) searching for a black panther in the Englsh countryside; filmed in London and Shoreham
• Released theatrically by Oddball TV and on DVD by Blackhorse Entertainment
http://www.jacksonfilm.co.uk/
UK | colour | 108 mins | 2003
Cast: Nick Moran, Lara Belmont, Victoria Scarborough
Written by Judy Upton
Directed by Bob Blagden for Matador Pictures/Open Road Films
• A gang of teenage girls mug young men on the seafront in order to have enough money to get away from Brighton. The gang leader falls in love with a disturbed young detective transferred to Brighton from London. Seafront locations in Brighton but the pier scenes were shot in Worthing.
• The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival on 14 May 2003 and given its UK premiere at the Odeon Kingswest during the Brighton Film Festival on 25 November 2003.
• The film has its own website
• The film was released on DVD in Italy in 2005.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337574/
UK | colour | 108 mins | 2001 Cast: Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Kyle McLachlan Directed by Sandra Goldbacher • Two London teenage girls grow up together and go to the University of Sussex, which is used as a location. Other Brighton settings include the inevitable seafront and Adelaide Crescent, although for budgetary reasons much of the film was shot in the Isle of Man. The 'pier' looks like a landing stage compared with the Brighton equivalents. • Available on DVD
UK | colour | 108 mins | 2001
Cast: Tony Bluto, Ken Sharrock, Stephen Marcus, with numerous cameos by (among others) Barbara Dickson, Pauline Quirke, Rowland Rivron, John Thomson
Directed by Lloyd Stanton
Produced jointly by Enterprise Films and Spice Factory, the prolific production company based in Peacehaven.
• A comedy road movie with scenes in Brighton, Crawley, Eastbourne and on the South Downs.
• Shown at the End of the Pier International Film Festival in Worthing, May 2009
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277270/
UK | colour | 108 mins | 2001
Cast: Clea Smith, Catherine Sampson, Lara Clancy, Charlie Watts, Paul Vaughan Evans
Written by Jonathan Glendening and Chris Rieley
Directed by Jonathan Glendening
• 'Summer Rain is a colourful, contemporary romantic coming of age drama set against the backdrop of Brighton’s vibrant youth culture. Following three girls in their early 20s sharing a flat, the film observes their interweaving love lives, confused emotions and distant dreams and ambitions, set against a long hot summer, spectacular sunsets and a great soundtrack.' [Website synopsis] Shot on location in Brighton at sites including the Zap Club and the inevitable beach (in Hove as well as Brighton).
• Winner of a number of awards at international film festivals, including the Grand Prize at the Director's View Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Roma Independent Film Festival. Shown as part of the fringe at the Brighton Festival 2004.
• The film has its own website.
• Available on DVD
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193537/
UK | colour | 95 mins | 2000 (released 5 May 2000)
Circus
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Cast: John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Brian Conley, Amanda Donohoe, Eddie Izzard
Written by David Logan
Directed by Rob Walker for Circus Pictures/Columbia Pictures
• Thriller that takes exaggerated liberties with Brighton topography, mixing scenes on the beach west of the Palace Pier, in the Lanes, at the Grand Hotel, Madeira Drive, the marina and elsewhere. The 'nudist beach' is moved to a new location with much greater exposure just below the West Pier and a handy telephone kiosk is found on the beach. The station is not Brighton but West Worthing in disguise.
• Available on DVD
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191037/
UK | colour | 94 mins | 2000
Cast: Gary Moreline, Tom Woodman, Kevin Bishop, Barry McNicholl, Marcel McCalla, Jane Peachey, Simon Desborough, Ceri Loaring
Devised and directed by The Heather Brothers for Slice Films
• Low-budget black comedy in which a series of practical jokes at the end of term, filmed with a hand-held camera, go wrong.
• Available on DVD, released by Singa Home Entertainment in 2001.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297787/
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