Wanted: Short films about life “beside the seaside”

As part of this year’s Festival, Portsmouth Film Society are inviting filmmakers to submit short films based on the festival’s theme of “Oh I do like to be beside the seaside”.  

The best selection of short films will be shown at a special screening at The Loft, Albert Road on Sunday 26^th September alongside award winning short films including the Oscar winning “La Maison En Petit Cubes”, local filmmaker Sue Dunderdale’s “Exposed” and Dudley Sutton in “Treasure”, as well as films from the Wessex Film and Sound Archive that depict seaside life in Southsea as far back as the 1950’s.

Budding film makers can submit their short film by email signal@kino-kult.co.uk . Please send with “Seaside Shorts” as the subject line. For more details on film formats and how to submit click here.



Memories of the making of Tommy wanted

The centre piece of this year's festival will be an exclusive showing of music legends The Who’s 1975 musical film, Tommy at Southsea’s Kings Theatre.

To truly bring the story to life, Portsmouth Film Festival is filming a short documentry about the making of Tommy and want to hear from anyone who may have connections with the film or remembers the time during the filming in Portsmouth.

Portsmouth plays a huge part in Tommy with many locations featuring in the film including Fort Nelson, Southsea Pier and the Kings Theatre. 

Filming took place during the time when South Parade Pier caught fire and smoke can actually be seen drifting in front of the camera in several shots.  It is moments like these that we at PFF want to find out more about so if you have a story to tell surrounding the making of Tommy, then get in touch via facebook or email tommy.pff@gmail.com.