Vagabond Film Festival makes its inaugural run from Thursday (July 26) at the IF: Milton Keynes International Festival’s hub in Campbell Park.
The four day festival showcases short and feature film screenings, local filmmakers, free events, Q&A’s and workshops.
Through the distinct festival strands: Animation; Activists Arrivals & Acrobats organisers promise to deliver a festival that does what cinema was intended to do, create buzz and excitement around film and film culture.
The venues are pretty special too: A floating cinema, cinema dome in Campbell Park, MK Gallery Events Space and 12th Street that will create a unique cinematic experience.
Community, diversity, and inclusivity are at the heart of the Vagabond Film Festival, and organisers are working with the team behind F Rated, which champions female filmmakers. The programme will highlight all films by women with an ‘F Rating’.
The festival launches at Dome Cinema in Campbell Park on 26 July at 5pm and later that evening it will screen Redoubtable from 7.45pm.
On Friday (27 July) at 3.15pm Naoko Yamada’s A Silent Voice will air, followed by the Premiere of The Democratic Set from Back to Back Theatre, at 7pm.
On Saturday (28 July) the Dome Cinema will host a special sing-along screening of the classic British animated film Yellow Submarine at 7pm.
On Sunday (29 July) Neil Brand’s Silent Film for Kids with live piano accompaniment starts at 2pm, and later in the evening we will be a screening Journeyman with Q&A from award-winning producer Diarmid Scrimshaw.
Vagabond Film Festival opens on 26 July at 11:30am on the Floating Cinema with the World Premiere of Enter the Portal - A View From the Lakes Estate, commissioned exclusively for Vagabond Film Festival Directed by animator Rachel Wright this film was made with the assistance of children from the Lakes Estate.
The London International Animation Festival Shorts Programme aimed at 8-14 year olds will screen four short films on 26 July at 2pm, and on the same day at 5pm the classic Disney animated film The Jungle Book will hit the screen.
The brilliant Fantastic Mr Fox will be all bushy-tailed at at 5pm on the 27 July and Peter Rabbit at 5pm on 28 July.
Milton Keynes-based filmmaker Samuel Bore curated selection of 12 short films from deaf filmmakers called Deaf Culture into Light.
Get set for screenings of How To Mug a Deaf Person by Ben Rufus Green, Coming Out by Louis Neethling and Caterpillar by John Maidens from midday on Friday.
Other highlights include 30 Short Films In Competition screened in Four Sessions at MK Gallery Events Space.
These incredible short films come from all over the world and were selected from over 130 submissions.
Staying at MK Gallery on 27 July we will be screening the 48 Hour film Challenge films.
All tickets are £6.00 plus online booking fee of £1.80 for each transaction.
Concessionary price £5.50
Family ticket £22.00 (2x adults, 2x kids)
'Live with Neil Brand' – family £25.00, ticket £11.00
Festival Pass
A limited number of Festival Passes are available for £10 which offer a discount on all films* and FREE entry to the short film program.
*Excludes ‘Live with Neil Brand’.
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