The Bigger Picture

Our Bigger Picture Season launched with a screening of the British comedy Grow Your Own as part of the Oswestry Food Festival Fringe, followed by the simultaneous nationwide premiere of award winning director Lucy Walker's latest documentary Countdown to Zero which took place on 21st June which included a live link up to the BAFTA theatre in London for the after screening Q&A discussion (One of the questions picked for the panel to discuss coming from one of our audience via twitter !).

On July the 30th at the Attfield we screened Ridley Scott's beautifull and life afirming "Life In A Day" to a very apreciative audience, it's always pleasing to hear a round of aplause at the end of a film.

The season continues with a variety of exciting film screening events and workshops throughout August and September so please take a look at the Whats on  and courses pages of the website for more details.

We would like to acknowledge support from screen WM with funds from The National Lottery through the British Film Institute and also our partnership organisations in this project: Bridges – Making Global Connections, Oswestry Youth Cafe, Oswestry Festival Of Food & Drink, The Attfield Theatre and Oswestry Heritage Open Day Committee for enabling this season of events to go ahead.

We are pleased to announce that we are working in association with Shropshire Wildlife Trust to present the wonderfully quirky and stunningly beautiful Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo at the Darwin Festival 2012 next February. The event will include a pre screening Cafe Sci introduction to the film and a post screening Q&A via skype with the director, Jessica Oreck, who works at the American Museum of Natural History.

"My main goal with anything I work on is to create a sense of wonder," says Oreck, and she succeeds.