AN ACCLAIMED actress will head up the list of speakers at a Bridport film festival. Gemma Jones will appear at the virtual From Page to Screen festival next week, where she will be in conversation on Saturday, April 24 with co-founder Nic Jeune after a screening of the Lyme Regis-based Ammonite, in which she plays Mary Anning s mother. She has been on stage and screen for nearly sixty years and counting, and sticking with the book-to-screen theme of the festival has appeared in numerous adaptations including Sense And Sensibility as Mrs Dashwood, starred as Bridget Jones s mother throughout the trilogy and appeared as Madam Poppy Pomfrey in the Harry Potter series.
AN ACCLAIMED actress will head up the list of speakers at a Bridport film festival. Gemma Jones will appear at the virtual From Page to Screen festival next week, where she will be in conversation on Saturday, April 24 with co-founder Nic Jeune after a screening of the Lyme Regis-based Ammonite, in which she plays Mary Anning s mother. She has been on stage and screen for nearly sixty years and counting, and sticking with the book-to-screen theme of the festival has appeared in numerous adaptations including Sense And Sensibility as Mrs Dashwood, starred as Bridget Jones s mother throughout the trilogy and appeared as Madam Poppy Pomfrey in the Harry Potter series.
Sue Pritchard Loving tributes have been paid to a woman who worked tirelessly to bring the arts to Dorchester. Sue Pritchard, the first paid director of Dorchester Arts Centre, has died at home in Oxford aged 71. Until the mid 1980s, professional arts activity in Dorchester consisted of a programme of classical chamber concerts in Dorset County Museum and little else. Unlike most towns and cities across the UK, Dorchester had no arts centre building or coordinated programme of events and exhibitions. Sue was determined to make sure Dorchester had a substantial arts offering. Her husband Alan said: Sue s generous vision, tenacity and entrepreneurial vigour served the citizens of Dorchester and Dorset very well and she has earned their long-standing gratitude.
BRIDPORT Folk Festival has been rescheduled once more and will now take this place this summer. The event was originally set to go ahead in July, before being postponed until September as many summer events looked as if they would be cancelled again due to the Covid pandemic. But the September dates clashed with other events taking place in the town - namely the Bridport Hat Festival, which will be taking place on September 4, if it does go ahead. As a result of this, organisers of the folk festival have announced a new date - the weekend of August 13 to August 15.
The Bridport Page to Screen Festival will be going ahead virtually next month. The event will take place from Thursday, April 22 to Saturday, April 24 and will see two film screenings a day along with a number of talks from industry professionals. Page to Screen was founded in 2009 by the Bridport Arts Centre, and was routinely hosted there before the pandemic. Inspired by the Bridport Prize, the festival celebrates the relationship between books and films and aims to inspire and encourage the film adaptation of literature. This will be the 11th instalment of the festival, with 2020s event having to be cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.