Film festival coming to Ludlow.

A film festival that is a combined effort with a number of Shropshire venues will be taking in Ludlow Assembley Rooms as one of those places.

Transcript

00:00We're here at Ludlow Assembly Rooms and we're with Jess Laurie. Hello, Jess.

00:03Hello.

00:03So what's your role here, Jess?

00:05I'm the Programming and Marketing Manager.

00:08And you're holding a little flyer there for an event that's coming up.

00:12Just fill us in on what it is and what it's all about.

00:16So from the 11th to the 13th of July, we've got an event called the Rural Remix,

00:21which we're participating in with three other independent cinemas around Shropshire.

00:24So it's us, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, the Wemtown Hall, the Wellington Orbit and the Old Market Hall in Shrewsbury.

00:31And we've all come together, shared resources, to put on an event that really celebrates rural cinema.

00:38We're redefining rural cinema.

00:40Cool. So what sort of films are going to be shown then?

00:43So we've all been looking at films that reflect that kind of brief.

00:46So how we view a rural location or rural landscapes or life in rural areas.

00:52So we're showing this, a new kind of wilderness, the, I think, 1969 Ken Loach film, Kess.

01:00Oh, yeah.

01:01We've got six inches of soil, which is being shown in collaboration with the Green Festival.

01:07And the Shropshire Young Curators have chosen Withnail and I.

01:11Cool, great stuff. Good dialogue. Known for its dialogue, isn't it, that film?

01:14Yeah.

01:15You know, can you believe it? I'm 14, 6, 7. I've never seen Kess. I've never seen it.

01:21Actually, nor have I. I'll tell you, I've never seen Withnail and I either.

01:24Withnail and I is great. I can vouch for that.

01:26But Kess is an absolute classic, isn't it?

01:28And I can't believe I've got to this age and not seen it.

01:30So to see it on the big screen would be pretty awesome.

01:34You have some amazing stuff going on here, don't you, at the assembly rooms.

01:37It's just a bit of everything, isn't it? Theatre, spoken word.

01:40Yeah, we really do try to make sure that we have something that will appeal to everybody.

01:46We've really tried to broaden our programme to include everyone.

01:51Yeah, like you say, live music, we've got a lot of folk music.

01:54Yeah.

01:54Trying to sort of widen our family programming.

01:57Interesting film.

01:59And yeah, live theatre too.

02:01Great stuff. So just chuck out those dates again. When's it happening?

02:04So the Rural Remix is from the 11th to the 13th of July this year and we'll be showing four films as a part of it.