Film festival is 'bigger than ever' and will help emerging local talent

The English Riviera Film Festival is back after being held online during the pandemic - showcasing the best new talent from across the South West, as well as internationally.

The 2021 event includes students from South Devon College taking part in a 72-hour film making challenge and will see a prize ceremony on Saturday at the college.

Founder John Tomkins said: "A record number of worldwide film entries means that there will be double the amount of films screened as in previous years.

"Some of the previous years English Riviera Film Festival award winners and films have achieved TV, Cinema and film industry success. 

"This Year's Awards Ceremony and Screening takes place at the state of art Cinema at South Devon Colleges High Tech and Digital Centre on  Saturday November 6th.

 "We loved to celebrate Success and have two great events at Torquay Museum.  We have a talk from the film makers who fulfilled their feature film dream of making an Indie feature length documentary about the legendary 80's film "Ghostbusters", they talk about the making of the film, it's London Imax Premiere and the recent Cinema release in the USA.

"The second event we have a film premiere of "The Legend Plays On" exploring the true story of Billy Sutton ( grandson of a Peaky Blinder) who became instrumental in helping the Miami Chief of Police to clean up it's crime ridden streets in the 80's. 

"The film was shot across the South West. Billy and many of the Cast and Crew will be in attendance."  

 The festival takes place from the 1st to 6th November

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