Beeswax:

Separado!:

Double Take:

And a clip from The Living Room of the Nation:

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Look out for the nice Flatpack writeup in t’Guardian Guide today. One small error we should point out: Moon Unit and Jackdaw with Crowbar are actually playing on Saturday night at the Plasticine Party, not as part of the opening.

Although, people in glass houses… There are are a couple of minor changes to our published brochure. The main ones to mention are:

- The Matt Stokes screening on Saturday 27th March at VIVID is taking place at 3pm, not 1pm.
– Tickets for Until The Light Takes Us are £6, not £4/£3 as advertised in some places.
– David Hurley’s installation won’t be open until Monday Tuesday.
– Sacred Places is now showing with Ben Rivers’ wonderful I Know Where I’m Going as well as Facts About Projection, so the screening will end at around 8:20.

That’s pretty much it. Any other last-minute updates or additions will be posted here.

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For the second year running, students studying BA (Hons) Theatre, Performance and Event Design at Birmingham City University have been helping us decorate and transform our festival hub. This year’s hub, housed in the art space Vivid in Digbeth will be an information point during the festival. The space will have a bar, lots of cake, screenings, performances as well as parties during the festival.

The students have also been decorating the windows of our festival shops, Urban Outfitters, COW Vintage, Puma, Nostalgia and Comics and the Created in Birmingham Shop. Look out for the stripes and pick up a brochure!

This weekend there will also be volunteers in the Created in Birmingham Shop in the Bullring to answer any of your questions. A great opportunity to have a look at the pop-up shop, which is supporting creative talent in the city.

Nationally, brochures can also be found at Light House and the Art Gallery in Wolverhampton, Arnolfini, Bristol, Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds, Showroom and Workstation, Sheffield, Bluecoat, Liverpool, Broadway, Nottingham, Cinephilia West, London, Cornerhouse, Manchester and Side Cinema and the Star and Shadow, Newcastle.

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Thanks to the very helpful people at The Ticketsellers, booking for Flatpack is a breeze. As you probably know many of our venues are pretty intimate, so if you want to be sure of seeing something – or take advantage of the 4 screenings for £20 deal – then sort your tickets in advance. Things which are selling particularly well include…

SUNRISE
ODEON BUS TOUR
SEPARADO!
THE SECRET OF KELLS
BELBURY YOUTH CLUB
BURNING
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US

– If you’re planning to see the latter, you might like to know that there will be a pre-screening black metal warm-up session at Scruffy Murphy’s in Dale End beforehand. (Details for facebookites here.)
– The Odeon bus tour got a mention on radio 4 this afternoon when the Film Programme took a tour of the Electric; should be on iPlayer soon.
– As noted by Created in Birmingham, colourful stripes are appearing all over various festival shops and venues. David Hurley is also in the CiB shop over the weekend installing his strange family of mannequins.
– Finally, we end this disjointed and maybe slightly frazzled blog post with a doffed cap to our hero of the week – Adam at Aquila TV, who has been holed up in their edit suite all week compiling the shorts programmes.

Have a lovely weekend, and we’ll see you next week….

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An exciting late addition to the Unpacked lineup which we wanted to share — filmmaker Alex Smith will be taking part in the Puppetology session. He has made some great videos for the likes of Peaches, Coldplay and the Darkness as well as one of our favourite promos of recent times, the underwater mayhem of In the Blood by Pivot. Next Friday he’ll be in Birmingham with sculptor/filmmaker Astrid Goldsmith to talk about how they created a shark-movie in their back-yard using puppets, props and a stills camera. This is the video itself – apparently banned by myspace for its bloodthirstyness!

Unpacked runs from 10:30am to 4:30pm at The Bond in Digbeth on Friday 26 March, and during the day Businesslink are also doing free one-to-ones offering advice to freelancers and small businesses. You don’t have to be signed up for Unpacked to do one of these, just drop us a line if you’d like some more info.

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