Birmingham on Film

As part of the BFI's Britain on Film season we mounted an eclectic city-wide season of screenings and events in autumn 2016. Packing a century's-worth of Birmingham-shot film and television into a couple of weeks, highlights included:

legendary actress Corinne Skinner-Carter reflecting on her role in multicultural drama Empire Road;
heartwarming wartime drama Millions Like Us, a stone's throw from the former Spitfire factory where it was filmed;
John Akomfrah's Handsworth Songs, showing on 16mm in Handsworth Library;
an insight into some of the more recent movie shoots which have taken place in the city, including Ready Player One.

Archive

Birmingham's What I Think With

An evening of ambulatory entertainment built around Tom Pickard's 1991 film Birmingham's What I Think With

October 15 at 6pm, 2016

Centrala

Empire Road

A rare chance to see two episodes of Empire Road

October 15 at 2pm, 2016

MAC

Gosta Green Revisited

A rare chance to sample a selection of Gosta Green’s output

October 15 at 11am, 2016

MAC Birmingham - Hexagon Theatre

Millions Like Us

Touching home-front drama following a group of women as they get to grips with working in a munitions factory

October 13 at 6:30pm, 2016

Greenwood Academy

The Blue Lamp

A rare chance to revisit the golden era of cinema with an introduction by Professor Roger Shannon.

October 12 at 6pm, 2016

Handsworth Songs

This collage essay was pieced together by the Black Audio Film Collective from their own footage, news reports and archive material

October 11 at 6:30pm, 2016

Handsworth Library

City of a Thousand Locations

A chance to peek behind the scenes of some Birmingham film productions

October 10 at 5:30pm, 2016

The Mockingbird Cinema - Screen 1

Bhaji on the Beach

A gentle comedy following a multi-generational group of Asian women from their Birmingham community centre to Blackpool

October 10 at 11am, 2016

Ashiana Community Project

A Private Enterprise

October 9 at 12pm, 2016

The Electric Cinema Screen 2

Limelight #5

Project Birmingham’s fifth edition of Limelight

October 8 at 7pm, 2016

The GAP Arts Project

Gangsters

Opening episode of season one of Birmingham-shot TV series Gangsters

October 8 at 2pm, 2016

The Electric Cinema Screen 2

Brum on Film: Family Edition

October 8 at 11am, 2016

Regency Wharf