A DOCUMENTARY about David Hockney and two films partly shot in the Bradford district will be screened as part of the BFI London Film Festival.

Regarded as the UK’s most important film festival, the London Film Festival features in its programme five feature films backed by Screen Yorkshire’s £15 million Yorkshire Content Fund.

The screenings mark Screen Yorkshire’s biggest presence at a film festival in its ten-year history and a testament to the impact its Yorkshire Content Fund is having on the film industry in the UK.

Screen Yorkshire chief executive Sally Joynson said: “This is fabulous news for Yorkshire and Screen Yorkshire. It reinforces the reputation of this region for producing some of the very best films to come out of the UK.”

Testament of Youth, based on Vera Brittan's powerful First World War memoir, is the Centrepiece Gala screening. It stars Dominic West, Alicia Vikander, Emily Watson and Hayley Atwell and was filmed extensively in Yorkshire, with locations including Bradford's Little Germany area.

Hockney will have its World Premiere at the festival. In the documentary, described as "the definitive exploration of one of the most important artists of his generation", the Bradford-born artist gives, for the first time, unprecedented access to his personal archive of photographs and films, resulting in a frank and unparalleled visual diary of his long life.

Catch Me Daddy, selected in the First Feature Competition for the prestigious Sutherland Award, is about a young Asian girl fleeing her traditional family and was filmed at locations including Baildon, Halifax and Holmfirth.

The Yorkshire Content Fund, the biggest regional investment fund for production in the UK, is backed by the European Regional Development Fund and is open to producers working in film, TV, games and digital based in Yorkshire or from outside but looking to establish a base in the region.

Other productions which have benefited from the investment fund include TV dramas Peaky Blinders, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, The Great Train Robbery and the film Get Santa, a family movie starring Jim Broadbent and Rafe Spall about a father and son who discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage after crashing his sleigh and finding himself on the run from the police.