The programme for this year’s Bristol Radical Film Festival, which takes place at the Arnolfini gallery from 9-11 October has just been announced. Full programme and tickets available now from the Arnolfini website here:

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/the-bristol-radical-film-festival.

This year the festival is dedicated to commemorating the 40th anniversary of the First Festival of British Independent Cinema, which took place at the Arnolfini in 1975. Organised by the filmmaker, writer and curator, David Hopkins (1940-2004), the 1975 festival was a landmark event in the history of alternative film in Britain, screening overtly political film alongside aesthetically radical work in celebration of a vibrant independent film culture comprised of different forms, approaches and traditions.

Highlights include Laura Mulvey in conversation with Patti Gaal-Holmes, Reel News’ Shaun Dey alongside Cinema Action’s Steve Sprung, Liberation Film’s Starting to Happen with community filmmaker Ed Webb-Ingall, and a special screening of the recently re-released Blacks Brittanica with producer Margaret Henry.

Festival Pass : Bristol Radical Film Festival 2015