Screening top local talent, while attracting exciting international films, the English Riviera Film Festival has been entertaining audiences since 2016
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English Riviera Film Festival show | international film talent
English Riviera Film Festival show is out for a second series of chatting to filmmakers…
Here’s a good omen – the English Riviera Film Festival Show is back!
English Riviera Film Festival Show draws on the wisdom and inspiration of international and local…
Sparkling talent wins at English Riviera Film Festival
English Riviera Film Festival awarded films from around the world and celebrated international and South…
The Man Who Wouldn’t Die | murderous misguided puppets
The Man Who Wouldn’t Die is a short film with the 3 Ps – …
Hidden Nowhere | Grace Fox on sci-fi, ambition and imagination
In Hidden Nowhere writer-director Grace Fox takes what she has and turns it into a…
“Be brave and tell stories” | Pamela Jikiemi talks IRL
IRL is a film about influencers and fakery. Director Pamela Jikiemi talks about pressure of…
Adding truth to a story | Lewis Carter and Kate Beasley
Director Lewis Carter and producer Kate Beasley have put their filmmaking beliefs to the fore…
Remembering Ghostbusters: How to make an indie doc feature
Anthony and Claire Bueno will be at Torquay Museum explaining how they made the insightful…
6 days of film at the English Riviera Film Festival
There will be 6 days of screening films submitted to the English Riviera Film Festival…
CVP supports English Riviera International Film Awards
Media production equipment supplier CVP is sponsoring the English Riviera International Film Awards, the culmination…
English Riviera Film Festival | 7th edition of South Coast fest
The English Riviera Film Festival is open for its 7th edition of promoting and supporting…
Avernus / David Cunningham has a perfect plan
Writer and producer David Cunningham plotted a perfect murder in his short Avernus, and is…
Women in Film / a celebration at English Riviera Film Fest
The Women in Film panel at the English Riviera Film Festival is an exploration and…
A big story to tell / Reclaiming the Negative by Mike Beech
Mike Beech is drawn to personal stories with deeper resonance. Reclaiming the Negative tells of…
English Riviera film fest / screenings and events
The English Riviera film fest is back and online, where it’s sure to generate the…
Loki’s Game | Johan Nayar on the action dance short
Loki’s Game combines action and choreography for a tale about the Norse god of mayhem….
Bulldog / Kieran Stringfellow thriller challenges assumptions
Bulldog is an award-winning experimental thriller which challenges assumptions. We chatted to director Kieran Stringfellow…
English Riviera Film Festival 2020 nominees
English Riviera Film Festival 2020 has announced its nominees for prizes, with a range of…
Morale boosting and bursting with info: ERFF Show interviews
From the English Riviera Film Festival’s John Tomkins, the ERFF Show offers a series of…
John Tomkins: “be prepared for pain barriers”
English Riviera Film Festival director John Tomkins has grown the South Devon film fest, getting…
Jamille van Wijngaarden on her dark comedy School’s Out
In the comedic short School’s Out director Jamille van Wijngaarden takes a parents evening to…
Marek Kawula capturing images our eyes would never see
Marek Kawula is a Devon filmmaker who gazed at the stars for his Time is…
Kayleigh Gibbons talks Featherweight, realism and honesty
Featherweight is an animation that uses engaging characters and dark humour to explore grief and…
Chumbak: hope and aspirations from jungle to city
Shot it India, Chumbak captures hope and adventure. We spoke to filmmakers Tobias Worrall and…
Allowing the story to shine: Vanessa Bailey talks about Bus Stop
Vanessa Bailey went on ‘an unexpected journey’ to create the short film Bus Stop. We…
Friendship and love: Rosie Westhoff on her film Treacle
Treacle, directed by Rosie Westhoff and written by April Kelley, has been winning praise for…
An unknown future: Jamie Hughes on his doc Horarium
Filmmaker Jamie Hughes took to a Benedictine community to explore themes of companionship, religion and…
As authentic as a film could be: Richard Miller on Can’t Hide It
Filmmaker Richard Miller took on a very personal story for Can’t Hide It. We caught…
Classic crime at Torquay Museum for English Riviera Film Fest
Classic crime films exploring the wide darkness and depth of human naughtiness is explored at…
The absurdity and despair of grief played out in Baobab’s award-winning Flies
Baobab are looking decidedly at middle age. It’s a tumultuous time. Their film Flies is…
Adam Spinks unwraps his elegant nightmare horror Like Glass
In Like Glass, a young woman awakes alone and injured in the middle of a…
Propaganda, xenophobia and oppression, Hymn of Hate by Matt Kennard explores the tools of the elite from the perspective of WWI
First time director Matt Kennard takes on WWI with Hymn of Hate, which explores relationships…
Love conquers all in darkly funny animation Catastrophe
Catastrophe is a darkly humorous animation where love conquers all. Director Jamille van Wijngaarden used…
Foxes – Tristan Taylor shines a light on black mental health
The short film Foxes by Tristan Taylor shines the light on issues around black mental…
Eli, powerful short takes on big issues of immigration, identity and morality
Eli challenges perceptions while taking on immigration, identity and morality. Directed by Colin Gerrard, it’s…
‘Torbay was there right at the beginning of film history’
The history of film in Torbay will be explored by Kevin Dixon at Artizan Gallery…
Serious about whimsy, Jamie Harry Scrutton on poetry, animation and doing things his own wittyful way
Jamie Harry Scrutton combines animation and poetry for a live multi-media event about whimsy. We…
