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Holmfirth Film Festival Begins

The Holmfirth Film Festival starts today. There’s a week of events in store including movie screenings and talks, some of which are free.

Much of the festival takes place at the Picturedrome, and this afternoon between 2pm and 5pm is hosts a free festival launch party. Later tonight there’s a red carpet event with a screening [...]

Holmfirth Film Festival Programme Revealed

A day dedicated to the life and career of Huddersfield-born Hollywood star James Mason forms the centrepiece of next month’s Holmfirth Film Festival. The full programme of events has now been revealed by the festival’s organisers.

The festival runs for a week from Saturday 22 May, and begins with a red carpet premiere for a short [...]

Yanks: What The Critics Said

I moved to Dobcross earlier this year, and this week I finally got around to watching the movie Yanks. As just about everyone around here knows, it’s the World War II film starring Richard Gere which was shot partly on location in the village in the late 1970s.

Here on Saddleworth News [...]

Entries Required For Short Film Competition

The first Holmfirth Film Festival takes place in May, and aspiring film-makers have the chance to enter a short film competition. Organisers say they want “quirky and individual” films inspired by the people and places of the Holme Valley.

There are two categories, one for ten-minute films and the other for shorts of just 60 seconds, [...]