Borderlines Film Festival
LocationHerefordshire, Shropshire, Powys and Worcestershire, UK
Founded2002
Festival dateFebruary 28, 2020 (2020-02-28) March 15, 2020 (2020-03-15)
Websiteborderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk

Borderlines is an annual film festival held in multiple locations around the Herefordshire, Shropshire and Powys borders. The first festival took place in 2003.

History

Borderlines Film Festival started in 2002 with the ambition to deliver a rural film festival covering Herefordshire and Shropshire,[1] with the inaugural festival launched in 2003. The founding director was David Gillam, who remained director until 2013, and was also inaugural director of the Wales One World Film Festival.[2] Borderlines was reportedly the country's first rural film festival.[3]

By 2015 it was reported as being "the UK's largest rural film festival".[4] In 2019 the event attracted 21,678 in attendance.[5]

The festival has shown films in a range of unusual circumstances, including a cycle ride to a moviebus[6] and showing Casablanca in an aircraft hangar in Shobdon.[7]

Description

The festival is held in multiple locations around the Herefordshire, Shropshire and Powys[8]

As of 2013, Borderlines had two patrons: Francine Stock and Chris Menges.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Borderlines Film Festival Programme 2003. Rural Media Company. 2003.
  2. ↑ "Who we are". WOW Film Festival. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "UK's first rural film festival". Hereford Times. 30 January 2003. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  4. ↑ Crump, Eryl (16 July 2015). "Artist converts trailer into exhibition at this year's National Eisteddfod". North Wales Live. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  5. ↑ Jones, Barry (30 December 2019). "Borderlines Film Festival 2020: Event to mark its 18th year". Powys County Times. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "Round-up of local events in Hereford". Hereford Times. 24 March 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Borderlines Film Festival returns with a 10th birthday May festival". Hereford Times. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  8. ↑ "Archived Festivals". Borderlines. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  9. ↑ "Borderlines patron Francine Stock reflects on the festival's appeal and this year's highlights". Hereford Times. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2020.


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