ALCINA - Opening Night Preview!

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We are pleased to be part of the first ever Hastings Film Makers Festival and bring you this opening night preview of a new opera film adapted from Handel’s haunting “ALCINA”. We're also hoping to hold a short post-film Q&A with the film-makers.

ALCINA + Q & A
70 mins / UK / 2013

This is the story of an enchantress on a magical island who loses her powers of seduction. The fruits of an extraordinary collaboration with Barefoot Opera; an ensemble of Jazz singers, opera singers and musicians, directed by Sam Sharples and Nichola Bruce (based on the stage production by Polly Graham and Jenny Miller). Blending fantasy visuals with real performances filmed in Hastings and St Leonards.

HASTINGS MAKERS FESTIVAL
Curator Mark French has drawn together some exceptional talents, who have made new works including several full-length feature films and an eclectic selection of shorts. It is extraordinary to have so much talent concentrated in the locality, and although the genres are diverse the program aims to show how closely linked the films are in style and substance. They range from black comedy to social satire, off beat drama to mystical experimentation, music documentary to opera re-worked as film fantasy. All the work has been created in the past year or so and many of the films will be premieres and previews.

With the start of summer just around the corner, it’s never been a better time to celebrate emerging Hastings culture. Early booking is highly recommended.

Other venues include The Electric Palce Cinema (main festival site) and a special showing of cutting edge short films at The Jerwood Gallery. See program for details.