TWO BRADFORD films will be shown at an international short film festival in Italy next month, celebrating ‘language of the short film’.
Films ‘Girl Power’ and Lights of Bradford’ will be showcased at the 10th annual Fabriano film fest, organised by the Opificio delle arti association in collaboration with Fabriano UNESCO City of Media Art.
Girl Power, a film made by New Focus, shares the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of three teenage girls from Bradford.
The film, commissioned by Bradford UNESCO City of Film and Bradford Council, sees Kanwal take the viewer on a journey around Bradford to meet Alice, Amaira and Kiara as they stand proud in front of the camera.
The film fills the viewer with hope, as each girl shows strength, kindness and compassion as they share their determination to fight for equality, stop racism, support disabled people, and save the planet.
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Girl Power was inspired by Impressions Gallery’s exhibition Being Inbetween by Carolyn Mendelsohn, a series of powerful photographic portraits of girls aged between ten and twelve.
Shot in winter 2020 under strict UK Covid restrictions, New Focus overcame adversity to produce this impassioned film that gives Alice, Amaira and Kiara a voice. New Focus members had never made a film before, presenting for the first time Kanwal worked with Daniella, and Sarah Aherne to direct and edit this inspirational film that encourages other young people to stand up with power and have a voice.
The film will be screened between December 1 to December 4 at the film festival.
The five-minute film ‘Lights of Bradford’ covers a day in the life of Bradford, taking in the many cultures, faiths, landscapes and culinary delights of the city from sunrise to sunset.
It was made by MA Filmmaking student at the University of Bradford Donnie Horvath, who graduated in 2020. He worked in the locations team at Sister Pictures on BBC One’s Better, a five-part thriller filmed in Leeds and Bradford in spring 2022 and has also recently worked on the new Netflix drama Bodies.
The film will be screened on Friday, December 2 at 5:30pm.
Valentina Tomada, actress and writer born in Rome, said: “The main purpose of our festival is to make the language of short cinema known to the general public and to use its potential at an educational level: in fact, in its brevity, the short film manages to be more direct in conveying important messages, which leave their mark on the soul of the spectator, and which usually arrive unexpectedly.”
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