Swansea Film Festival

‘Simpsons’ writer among entries for Swansea film festival
May 26 2007
by Claire Hill, Western Mail

A FILM from one of the writers of The Simpsons is one of the highlights of this year’s Swansea Film Festival.
The four-times Emmy winner Mike Reiss, who also wrote the Ice Age films, will present his film Queer Duck screened at this year’s event.
The writer will join 378 film makers, directors, actors and producers who will all arrive in Swansea for the 13-day festival which starts on Tuesday.
The festival has attracted more than 1,100 entries from around the world and during the movie bash, 307 of the best films will be screened at various venues across the city.
The film festival venues will include the Ibis Hotel, Swansea Bay, Aberavon Beach Hotel, Dylan Thomas Centre and Vue Cinema, Swansea.

The festival’s annual Tinny awards will be held at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Friday June 8.
With 36 awards to be presented in categories like Best Avant Garde Film and Best UK Documentary the evening will be presented by Spencer Feeney, Lembit Opik and The Cheeky Girls.
While the Swansea festival will focus on a mix of films, next month will see the launch of a film festival in celebration of cycling.
The Cardiff festival will mark Bike Week 2007 with a series of bicycle film classics. Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff are taking a leading role by hosting Wheel to Reel, the city’s inaugural Bicycle Film Week.
The festival, which will run from June 15-24 will include classics from world cinema such as Beijing Bicycle and Jacques Tati’s silent comedy Jour de Fête.
Alongside these will be more modern films like Belleville Rendezvous.
Other films like Hell on Wheels and Overcoming will explore the exploits of cycling’s sporting heroes.
The event is being organised in collaboration with Cycle Cardiff, a new community cycling group, which will also run rides and information stalls throughout the week to encourage people to take to the saddle.


Full information on all the films in the Wheel to Reel season can be found at www.chapter.org.