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If you’ve never appreciated what it is that the BFI does, all you need to do is have a look at their impressive film catalogue. Tasked with the job of preserving Britain’s film heritage, the BFI are never idle, and at Vintage 2011 we had the pleasure of presenting some of the best known films from their collection as well … Read More

There are some things that only get better with age – and we’re not just talking about good wine here. The hard-working folks at the Vintage Festival scoured the country to put together a collection of all things cool from 5 decades of British fashion, music, design, art – and of course film. Curated by one of our all-round film … Read More

A project sprung up in 2009 in the beautiful hills of East Devon to collect and preserve archive film that had lain dormant in people’s cupboards and attics for years, and make the footage available to the public. The result so far is this – a beautifully compiled and narrated short film that documents life in East Devon from another … Read More

We pitched up in summer 2011 in the familiar surroundings of Barnstaple town square to screen some truly relaxing wildlife footage. One of the Devon Wildlife Trust’s attentive wardens captured the magic of a family of otter cubs playing in a stream, oblivious to the cameras trained on them. You can view this beautiful footage online here, although our version … Read More

It’s remarkable how much this line of work brings us together with eccentric geniuses. One of these is Austin Vince of the Adventure Travel Film Festival, who brought together an unlikely collection of films that were simply brilliant. Playing to a full house every time, we treated the audience to ‘Severn Railway Bridge’ (1967),  a melancholic newsreel capturing the dismantling … Read More