WE'VE RECEIVED A GRANT FROM AWARDS FOR ALL!
We're extremely pleased to announce that we've got the grant! Awards for All have given us £6,265 which will most of which will help us purchase high definition digital projection equipment and help us to continue to provide opportunties for volunteers and students to get involved with the project.Torbay Film Club. Thanks to Awards for All, and to our treasurer Christine Pattison for all her hard work in getting the grant application together.
With part of the award we have purchased the very latest high definition Projector from Panasonic and Blue Ray DVD technology. Early tests demonstrate we can now enhance our screenings with really stunning picture quality. We will shortly add the very best in sound equipment as well !!!
TUESDAY 2 DECEMBER
Torquay Museum 7.30pm
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (12A) 
2007 France 112 mins Subtitled
An extraordinary and mesmerising account of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who can only communicate by blinking his left eyelid after a kind of stroke left him paralysed with ‘Locked-in’ syndrome. With breathtaking visuals and dynamic performances, this French film won two Golden Globes and the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Director. Our ‘members’ choice film for the season.
“An incredible true story gets the exquisite film it deserves” Total Film
“An astonishing, deeply moving film, Schnabel's third film is also his masterpiece, thanks to extraordinary direction, stunning camerawork, a terrific script and an Oscar-worthy central performance from Amalric” View London
www.thedivingbellmovie.co.uk
STUCK FOR IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS?
Why not buy the loved ones in your life a short membership to the film club?
Membership from January to May next year will cost only £15 for 5 screenings and is the ideal Christmas gift. As you know, we're keen to get as many new members as possible, and this is one way you can help us. We may not be able to offer a short membership in future years, so snap it up while you can!
Take a membership form with you tonight, or download one from our website, and get it to us by 24 November and we'll be able to give you the membership card at our December screening. Alternatively, the lucky recipient can collect it in person at the January screening.
Films to be shown from January – May 2009 include:
- La Vie En Rose
- Cinema Paradiso
- BomBon El Perro
- Persepolis
Click on the Programme link for full details.