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Director Richard Hawkins and actress Jan Graveson will take part in a Question and Answer session after the screening of Everthing.

When middle-aged police detective Richard (Ray Winstone) visits Naomi (North Easterner Jan Graveson), a Soho prostitute nine times over nine days without once soliciting sex, she teases him at his reluctance to bite the bullet and get on with it. But as his questions about her lifestyle grow more insistent, Naomi grows suspicious, but ultimately intrigued by his persistence and mysterious motives. However, the true reason for Richard’s visits and his questions is one she could never have guessed.

See the New Features section for details about the film.

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Salla Tykkä is a young female artist who has been creating film since the late 1990s. Her latest work is intriguing and beautiful, concerned with family and rites of passage, and with nature and the glorious and particular landscape of Finland. Her images are accompanied with powerful soundtracks from major feature films, taken out of their original context and used to stunning effect to generate entirely new ideas and stories.

Salla Tykkä will be present to talk about her work with curator Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt. Food and drink is provided for the event courtesy of The Finnish Institute.
Tickets: £3.00 / £2.00 including screening, talk, wine & buffet.

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Tutor: Rachel Mathews. Join the creator of Danny and His Amazing Teeth and Mrs Buchanan when she delivers a masterclass on the tools and tricks of the screenwriting trade. Writers will be set a challenge prior to the workshop which will be reviewed by a team of experienced screen actors during the session. This event is aimed at people with previous experience. Places are limited so please book early.

All these screenings are FREE – dip in and out to your heart’s content
 

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99 Years Of My Life (15)
99 Vuotta Elämästäni
Monday 22 November, 2.45pm – 4.00pm, 6.15pm – 7.30pm, Tyneside Cinema

Award winner of Cannes Cinéfoundation Short Film Competition 2004, 99 Years Of My Life is a subtle tale documenting a woman’s life over 99 years. From her birth to death, it’s an incredibly beautiful, fascinating and moving tale.
Dir: Marja Mikkonnen, Finland 2004, 33 mins, short film, subtitled.

Northern Lights throws down the creative gauntlet to six teams of directors, actors, cinematographers, and editors from across Northern Europe to make six sketch films in six hours set in suites in the gorgeous Hilton NewcastleGateshead. Each film takes as its departure point the same script by Kerri Hayden in which two people go to bed together for the first time, the rest is then open to interpretation by each production team. See the finished products here.

Visit the photography gallery from the Time for Bed film shoot

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The Tyne V Tallinn Digital Challenge Films of 2003 have reached a global audience and won many festival awards and prizes since their gala screening at Northern Lights back in 2003. Dan Elliott's Fender Bender has become a festival favourite and is in competition at the European Film Awards. Andri Luup's Namemakers won a Royal Television Society Award earlier this year and Suite For Two by Marko Raat scooped Best Short of Estonia 2003. Here’s your chance to see all six films again, including the Digital Challenge winner The Shoe Tree by Ian Cottage. Ian is now developing an education project in Estonia through Creative Partnerships.

The North East is a hotbed of talent for emerging filmmakers, producing amazing pieces of work, much of which the public rarely get to see. So for one whole day the Digital Lounge will screen short films made by the students of the region. www.unn.ac.uk

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