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Free screenings to steal the limelight at market

Martin Heath
BBC News, Northamptonshire
Kate Bradbrook/BBC The inside of the Creative Place, a small rectangular building with the market square visible through curtains around a window. Several people are sitting inside watching a screen on which is a man in a suit. There are picture frames on the walls.Kate Bradbrook/BBC
The films shown at some of the screenings will be chosen by the audience

A series of films are due to be screened at a town centre's mini arts centre.

The shows at The Creative Place on Northampton's Market Square are being offered as a taster in the run-up to the town's film festival.

Audiences will be able to pick the movies they watch at some of the screenings.

The Northampton Film Festival will take place at various venues across the town.

The Creative Place blends in with the stalls at Northampton market and was installed as part of the square's £12m renovation.

It was designed to give local artists a chance to display their work and host special events.

Northampton Film Festival The exterior of a wooden market stall on which is the legend "The Creative Place" in black capitals. There are three windows below on which are posters about events.Northampton Film Festival
The Creative Place blends in with the town's market units

The free screenings will take place from 12 February to 7 March and will include family-friendly sessions as well as access screenings with flexible lighting, sound and seating arrangements.

There will also be opportunities to see trailers of the films which will be included in the festival.

The festival's youth board have selected local films for the screenings, and the filmmakers themselves will be there to talk about how they got into the industry.

Northampton Film Festival starts on 7 March and will showcase 80 movies.

Becky Carrier with medium-length blonde hair and large glasses wearing an orange top and lanyard and sitting in front of a film festival sign
Becky Carrier from Northampton Film Festival said she and her colleagues considered The Creative Place to be the smallest arts centre in the world

The director of Northampton Film Festival, Becky Carrier, said: "We are really pleased to be bringing these award-winning, local and British short films to local audiences for free this month, in the run up to the festival.

"While the festival in March will take place at a range of venues, this taster event of pre-festival screenings will be held at what we consider to be the world's smallest arts centre."

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