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UCL Festival of the Moving Image

28 October 2008

Oscar-winning actor Vanessa Redgrave, British filmmaker Ken Loach and Serbian film director Želimir Žilnik will be at the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre for the UCL Festival of the Moving Image, to be held 4-7 November 2008.

Festival of the Moving Image logo Admission is free and there is no need to book.

Redgrave and Žilnik will take part in a question-and-answer session on 5 November, while Loach and Zilnik will be part of a panel discussion on 7 November. Other highlights include the UK premiere of 'El Viajero Inmóvil' ('The Motionless Traveller') by Tomás Piard, the doyen of independent Cuban film and screenings of recent hits 'Like Water for Chocolate' (directed by Alfonso Arau) and Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'Amores Perros'.

The central theme of the 2008 festival is 'cities in/on film'. The event will honour the filmmaker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, on the 80th anniversary of his birth. It will also pay tribute to to the late actor Paul Newman and late directors Humberto Solás, Sergio Núñez for their exceptional work in cinema.

The UCL Festival of the Moving Image exists to promote the UCL Film Studies programme. It has been created to give film students the opportunity to present their works publicly for the first time. There will be screenings of short films by Professor Stephen Hart (UCL Spanish and Latin American Studies) and by students who attended the UCL Documentary Summer School EICTV-2008. All are welcome.