Chichester Cinema at New Park

The 17th Chichester Film Festival Audience Award for Best Film from the preview and premiere films of which there were 42, went to 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'. This was the World Premiere, surprisingly. Number two was 'Trip to Asia' and number three was 'Conversations with my Gardener' with Daniel Auteuil. 'Empties', a delicious Czech film, came fifth, the German film, 'The Wave', coming ninth. 'Hats Off' and 'Jar City' also made an audience impact, both coming high up in the list.

Interestingly, no less than four documentaries made it into the top ten including 'Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic', Mick Csaky’s film 'Amr Khaled: The Anti-Bin Laden' and 'Garbage Warrior'.

The panel discussion featuring GF Newman, Stephen Poliakoff and Kenith Trodd was one remarkable highlight as was Corin Redgrave, who, despite his past illness which has affected his memory, introduced his father’s film, 'The Stars Look Down' (dir. Carol Reed) with charming intensity. He has promised to bring his one man show, Oscar Wilde’s 'De Profondis', currently at the National, to the cinema so we’re on the road to becoming impresarios too!

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOU SUPPORT !!!!!!

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