Signs and banners promoting Bradford’s City of Film accolade will be put up across the city centre later this month.

They are being installed to coincide with launch celebrations for City of Film, awarded to Bradford last June by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organis-ation.

The signs, made by Bradford Council, feature the City of Film logo, the slogan ‘Think Bradford, Think Film’ and a film strip image.

Along with 40 lamppost banners, they will be put up in Thornton Road, Hamm Strasse, Westgate, Manningham Lane, Leeds Road, Wakefield Road and Manchester Road on Monday, March 15.

Councillor Anne Hawkesworth, Bradford Council’s executive member for environment and culture and a City Of Film board member, said: “These signs will promote Bradford as a City of Film to visitors to the city and also our own residents.”

City of Film will be launched at a civic reception on Thursday, March 18, to coincide with the opening of Bradford International Film Festival.

Other events will be held throughout the first weekend of the festival, including a ‘People’s Cinema’ at Bradford Playhouse where amateur film-makers will have the chance to show their work on a big screen.

Bradford arts development organisation Fabric is running the screening sessions at the theatre’s Black Box Studio on March 20 and 21.

Gideon Seymour, Fabric’s director, said: “The idea came about because we wanted to give people who make their own films the chance to see them in a cinema setting.”

The event will run from noon to 6pm on both days. Send a DVD of the film to Fabric, The Design Exchange, 34 Peckover Street, Little Germany, Bradford BD1 5BD. Call (01274) 370291.