06 Sep, 2018

The penultimate night at this month's festival sees us returning to Eastleigh Baptist Church for one of our most exciting screenings to date. If you need any convincing as to why you should join us for our screening of Romeo + Juliet, here's why we love it. In 1996 Australian director Baz Luhrmann – a relative unknown amongst Hollywood heavyweights – grabbed Shakespeare and made it into an MTV spectacle. Luhrmann decided that the Bard could – and would – talk to a contemporary audience of moody

29 Jun, 2018

Eastleigh Film Festival, curated by The Point, returns for a fifth year, Monday 25th to Saturday 29th September. The popular event has garnered a reputation for putting the fun back into going to the movies by screening cult, classic and iconic movies in unique locations to match. Featuring indoor and outdoor cinema with a twist, the festival is now in its fifth year following a successful week in 2016 which saw hundreds of people flock to Eastleigh for film fun. Curators at The Point will

19 Apr, 2018

We are delighted to announce that Eastleigh Film Festival will return for its fifth year this 24th to 29th September. 2017 was the final year for our seasoned Festival Director Dan, so this year's festival has been programmed using a different approach. Our curators at The Point have collaboratively searched high and low, far and wide across the Borough of Eastleigh, for locations that perfectly match a whole bunch of handpicked films.  We aren't quite ready to announce our line-up for this

12 Dec, 2017

We're excited to announce a new-for-2018 Pop-up Film Fest series, launching in February. Focusing in on cult and classic cinema, the new series will screen different films in Secret Locations throughout the year. Launching on Monday 12th February with Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi Blade Runner, all tickets are priced at just £10. In September we welcomed over 500 people to sold-out film screenings in unique venues around the borough, and now we focus on expanding to bring film fun to our loyal

13 Nov, 2017

On Thursday 23rd November Southampton General Hospital (SGH) Charity will host a Meet the Director Film Night to raise funds for healthcare professionals supporting patients in mental health crisis. They were born against a backdrop of economic turmoil and global conflict. Some came from a rural lifestyle unchanged since the 19th century, while others grew up in a gritty, blue-collar America of mines and smoke stacks. They ranged from students straight out of college, to soldiers toughened by

16 Aug, 2017

In 2016 Eastleigh Film Festival welcomed British director Neil Mcenery-West to The Point to screen his celebrated independent survival thriller Containment. We've invited him back to the festival to share his industry expertise in a Directing workshop as part of our Film Careers event. We caught up with him to find out what he's been up to and what participants can expect at this year's EFF Careers Morning. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I'm a writer and director working in film. I have

31 Jul, 2017

Beware, spoilers ahead... If you asked a horror fan for ten movies they would recommend to a non-horror fan, then I would expect Carrie to be on every list. Considered as a classic by genre lovers and general movie fans alike, Carrie is one of those movies with so many points of interest, that you will instantly want to talk to someone about it as soon as it's finished. It's easy to forget that Carrie was released two years before the original Halloween film and it has had a massive influence

25 Jul, 2017

We here at Eastleigh Film Festival have carefully selected hand-picked movies and unique locations in which to screen some of cinema’s best-loved gems. This year we (kinda’) have a sport-themed Friday as British classic Bend it Like Beckham and the genre-defining Rocky take to two sporty venues, but did you know…. Bend it Like Beckham’s director Gurinder Chadha was the first British Asian woman to direct a feature length film with Bhaji on the Beach, released in 1995 Rocky was the highest

27 Jun, 2017

The wait is over and tickets for Eastleigh Film Festival 2017 are now on sale! Curated by The Point, this year's week of movie-going magic takes you on a journey across the decades, to a whole bunch of brilliant venues in and around the Borough as we expand and visit new locations for screenings of hand-picked films. Our Festival Director Dan Hill has carefully selected an array of memorable movies to screen as part of Eastleigh Film Festival 2017 to make the annual event larger in scale and

12 Jun, 2017

Summer has arrived (well, kind of) and we're busy in the Eastleigh Film Festival office confirming details for more unmissable cinematic experiences, coming this September 25th – 30th. We've selected a whole bunch of brilliant films from not-to-be-missed cult cinema to contemporary classics and modern day masterpieces. These great movies, as usual, will be screened in locations to match in and around Eastleigh as this year we expand our territory and explore the Borough. It's our fourth year