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Filmmakers to cross the pond

AN INDEPENDENT film company from the North East has been selected to premiere its riske feature film at one of the film industry’s most prestigious festivals.

BRILLIANTLOVE, a 97 minute drama by Newcastle-based Pinball Films, has been selected to be screened in the Discovery section at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York next week.

Funded by regional screen agency Northern Film & Media, the film will be screened 6 times over the course of the festival with the world premiere coming on the 23rd April. The film festival encompasses feature films from 38 different countries with the Discovery section showcasing 17 films by new talent that range from light fun to provocative and timely.

The seductive drama set and filmed in the North East shows a poetic love story between a shy taxidermist, Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry), and a novice photographer, Manchester (Liam Browne) who documents their love affair with wonderfully personal, yet sexually charged images.

When a connoisseur of erotica stumbles upon the photographs in a pub, he becomes determined to unleash the unsuspecting couple on the art world and in doing so destroys their once idyllic life together.

brilliantlove director and Pinball Films founder Ashley Horner said: “brilliantlove is everything that new, digital cinema should be. It is a dialectic piece of art house erotic cinema that hopes to question notions of sexuality, image and the nature of what art and pornography are.”

Northern Film & Media chief executive Tom Harvey added: “For a North East independent film company to be selected from hundreds of films for the festival is fantastic and we wish them the very best success from this.

Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff following the attacks on the World Trade Centre to spur on the economic and cultural revitalisation of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture.

The festival is renowned for being a diverse international film festival that supports emerging as well as established directors and has screened over 1,100 films from over 80 countries to date.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .