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The Groovy Movie
Solar Cinema is entertaining, educational and environmental. We have provided
all night entertainment at Glastonbury Festival and Bestival. We have hosted
film festivals from Amsterdam to the English Riviera and inspired young people
with visits to schools and youth groups. We have put fun into environmental
awareness at Green Fairs and community events across the country.
Solar Cinema Tour 2012
In 2012 the Groovy Movie Picture House will be at the following events:
Sound of Silents Film Festival, Southampton - March 31st
Lounge on the Farm Festival,
Canterbury - July 6-8
Hesfes, Suffolk. July
21-27
Wickham Festival,
Hampshire - Aug 2-5
Folkwoods Festival,
Eindhoven, NL. Aug 10-12
Rewind Festival,
Henly. Aug 17-19
Rhythm
Festivals, Old Warden Park, Bedfordshire. Aug 24-26
Special film presentations for 2012 in the Groovy Movie Picture House:
Last Shop Standing - Based on the successful book by Graham Jones of the same name, "Last Shop Standing" will be a 60-minute documentary to be released in the summer of 2012. It will be a celebration of the unique spirit of comradeship and entrepreneurial ingenuity that has enabled so many Independent record shops to keep operating successfully against the backdrop of massive changes in the music industry, the biggest recession in years, the growth of online file sharing, and the explosion of choice in music consumption. T he film features appearances by musicians and industry insiders including Norman Cook AKA "Fat Boy Slim", Billy Bragg and Richard Hawley with more to be announced, but the real stars are the record shop owners, with hysterical anecdotes about their customers, both the weird and the wonderful. Their stories are the stuff of folklore! Customers with strange requests, global superstars given their first break by a shop and even the bizarre behaviour of sales reps desperate to get their records into the chart.
The film will tell the full story, hold back no punches, but also celebrate and promote our great independent record stores.
JUST DO IT
Just Do It is the feature documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Emily
James offering a behind the scenes portrait of UK climate activists . The
individuals in the film have picked up the mantle of civil disobedience and
direct action – chaining themselves to Parliament, super-gluing themselves
to bank trading floors, and attacking coal power stations en-mass.
Just Do It is crowd funded, freeing the film from the constraints of broadcasters.
Through a totally unique production model that embraces crowd-funding and
the power of working collectively, this film is breaking new ground in independent
production. But they need your support.
Check out www.justdoitfilm.com for more
information
Beating The Bomb
- A film about the history of the peace movement. Made by two independent
film makers over three years, it is a film about the biggest weapons of mass
destruction ever created, the people who use them and, more importantly, it
is about the people who fight them. Featuring Tony Benn, Mark Thomas and Vivienne
Westwood.
Mark Thomas has offered us his recording of his live show, ridiculing the
laws governing protests...
Serious Organised Criminal
- This is how Mark fought the law ... with the law's permission! It is a laugh
out loud funny world inhabited by anarchists, Goths, artists and the Westminster
Constabulary, in which Mark becomes a Guinness World Record holder, organises
2,500 protests in one day and changes the law in the process.
Big thanks to Nina Paley for her feature length animated masterpiece
Sita Sings the Blues
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina
is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email.
Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern
comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic
Ramayana.
Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues
earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."
