Baltic Cinema: Baltic x BFI NETWORK present Uncommon Voices
A special programme of short films exploring class — with a filmmaker discussion and networking event with BFI NETWORK.
Baltic Cinema: Baltic x BFI NETWORK present Uncommon Voices
Thu 4 December | 18:30 | 18+
£6 Full price / £4 Students, unwaged and 65+
We’ve all got an image that pops into our head when we think about what a ‘working class film’ might look like, and for most of us, it’s a vision firmly drawn from the past. This selection of recent short films starts a conversation about how working-class filmmakers are capturing class experience in the Britain of today, spanning documentaries, flights of fancy and realism.
What these films uncover are working-class experiences that are rich in creativity, complications, uncertainties and contradictions: the very things that make a film worth watching. This programme of shorts, selected by filmmaker and curator Nia Childs, is for anyone who wants to explore working class Britain as it is and imagines itself to be, in the hope of discovering something new.
BFI NETWORK Mixers bring together local creatives and provide opportunities for growing your network, finding collaborators, and connecting with the filmmaking community.
This event features a filmmaker discussion and networking event for all interested in, or currently making films in the North East.
Baltic Cinema
Baltic Cinema is a new year-round cinema programme at Baltic, lighting up our Level 1 Cinema with the best new and archive films. Bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East, Baltic Cinema also expands our exhibitions, offering a chance to explore further some of the themes they raise.
Baltic Cinema has five strands:
Currents presents new work from across the world
Sources expands on our exhibitions
Selected shows films selected by our artists and partners
Quayside Kino is a monthly screening for families and children
News From Home offers films on and from the North East, for the people who live here
All regular screenings take place in our Level 1 Cinema. In addition, you can catch free drop-in films in Front Room every week from September.
Baltic Cinema is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
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