Flatpack Festival 2010

Dates: 23rd – 28th March | Location: Birmingham, UK

Back for six days of cinematic adventures in venues across Birmingham, Flatpack 2010 is shaping up quite nicely. As ever the programme is a lucky dip of the best new features, animation, documentaries, shorts, kids movies and experimental film, along with live scores, bus-tours, workshops, special guests and loads of free screenings. There’s also a bit of a 1930s flavour to our archive strand in honour of ‘patron saint’ Oscar Deutsch, who created the Odeon cinema empire from nothing and brought modernist super-cinemas to Britain’s high streets.

Accompanying the festival is Unpacked, Flatpack Festival’s show and tell day which takes place on Friday 26 March at The Bond in Digbeth, Birmingham. Unpacked is a place where you get to inspect the cogs and gears behind some of the work on show in the Flatpack Festival programme. A range of filmmakers and artists will talk about how they make work, and how they go about getting it out into the world.

For further information and the full festival line-up, visit www.flatpackfestival.org.uk