Branchage Jersey Film Festival
BRANCHAGE JERSEY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (1 – 4 October 2009)
Website now live at www.branchagefestival.com
Programme announced!!
• British Sea Power perform MAN OF ARAN live soundtrack at Jersey Opera House
• Amiina (the Sigur Ros string section) premiere a live soundtrack to fairy-tale animation by Lotte Reiniger (support from Paper Cinema)
• Andrew Kotting: A Town Hall Meeting to announce his Jersey Jape 2010 filmmaking project
• 100% Dynamite reggae party with The Top Cats live
• The Bordee de Branchage party: Kitty Daisy & Lewis + The Correspondents + Jersey Premiere Brass presents Acid Brass (Jeremy Dellar)
• See classic IF… in a public boys school chapel
• See sleep furiously in a rural barn, with locally produced breakfast
• Music docs: ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES / THE POSTERS CAME FROM THE WALLS / LEGACY IN THE DUST: THE FOUR ACES STORY / SOUNDS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
• Jersey Classic Cars Drive-In Cinema: SOME LIKE IT HOT / THE WIZARD OF OZ
• Activist docs + Q&As: BURMA VJ / THE END OF THE LINE / THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD / CARMEN MEETS BORAT / ROUGH AUNTIES / WILD ART: OLLY & SUZI
• See GRIZZLY MAN in the Jersey Conservation Trust (previously Jersey Zoo)
• The best in new cinema
• Industry events incl: BAFTA & Shooting People present Short Sighted / Matter Productions presents Fundraising Through Film & Media
• Visiting filmmakers for Q&As incl: Max Hattler / Gideon Koppel / Andrew Kotting / Rupert Murray / David Wood / Jamie Jay Johnson / Nicholas Abrahams / Winstan Whitter – more tbc
• Screenings and events in conjunction with True/False Film Festival (Columbia, Missouri), WFMU Radio (New Jersey meets old Jersey), the European Surf Championships.
• OPENING NIGHT FILM: ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD - Werner Herzog in Antarctica
• CLOSING NIGHT FILM: MOON - Duncan Jones and Sam Rockwell in space
+ to be announced: A MULTI-MEDIA EXTRVAGANZA AT GOREY CASTLE + LIVE MUSIC TO FILM EVENT AT THE WAR TUNNELS – FULL DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Full ticket, booking and Festival pass information at http://www.branchagefestival.com/tickets
TRAVEL PACKAGES:
Take the hassle out of arranging your trip to Branchage by choosing one of the great value packages on offer for travel and accommodation from Jersey Travel: www.jerseytravel.com/branchage-film-festival.html
Jersey Travel can also give you amazing rates and ‘3-nights-for-the-price-of-2’ offers at range of Jersey Hotels.
ACCOMMODATION ONLY:
Alternatively, call the following guest houses for special Branchage rates:
Stafford Hotel
http://www.jerseyrooms.co.uk/stafford/
Call reservations on 01534 611111
Say you’re coming for Branchage Film Festival for our special rate:
Double Room: £60 per night
Single Room: £30 per night
Bay View / La Reine
http://www.bayviewjersey.com/Bay_View_Guest_House/Home.html
Call 01534 720950 to reserve a room at either the Bay View (or La Reine hotel, their sister place)
Say you’re coming for Branchage for 10% off their published rates, working out at:
Bay View single room: £36 per night
La Reine single room: £28.80 per night
De L’Etang
http://www.jersey.co.uk/hotels/deletang/
Call 01534 721996 and say you’ll be going to Branchage Film Festival for these rates:
Single room: £30 per night
Double room: £25 per person per night
Cheaper still…. CAMPING!
Our friends at Bleu Soleil camping are open all year round with great facilities and great rates for pitching your own tent, or for staying in one of their tents (complete with electricity and heaters!). Please contact them directly (mentioning Branchage Film Festival) through:
www.bleusoleilcamping.com/site.htm
