{"id":18415,"date":"2020-03-13T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=18415"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:24:23","slug":"20th-belfast-film-festival-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2020\/03\/20th-belfast-film-festival-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Belfast Film Festival Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>It is with heavy hearts that we are announcing the rescheduling of the 20th Belfast Film Festival.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> To slow down the spread of COVID-19 and protect our guests, audiences, staff and volunteers, the festival, which was due to start on April 1<sup>st<\/sup>, will now be postponed until the autumn. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We considered the \u2018social distancing\u2019 and digital models but\nyesterday, at an emergency board meeting, we decided unanimously that halfway\nmeasures would not work.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just over a week ago we launched our 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary\nprogramme to a room packed with hundreds of excited film lovers, and we have\nalready sold 2,000 tickets.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to respond imaginatively to this difficult time.&nbsp; In\norder not to disappoint people too much, we will offer a few treats to our audience\nto thank them for their patience. A selection of online events will be\navailable free for our audience, including legendary film producer Jeremy\nThomas in Conversation with Mark Cousins; the Short Film Competition and\nOfficial Selection Shorts; and others to be confirmed. Key special events from\nthe 2020 programme will be rescheduled as soon as it is possible.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also delighted to announce a one-off collaboration with our\ncolleagues at Foyle Film Festival in November. We are all in this together and\nwe think that film culture will be stronger from such co-operations. This\npartnership shows the true spirit of collaboration and will lead to innovative\nfilm events in both Belfast and Derry this autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When people self-isolate at home, what is one of the things\nthey\u2019ll do?&nbsp; They\u2019ll watch films.&nbsp; Classic movies and new work. Film\nisn\u2019t a fair-weather friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the next few days, we will process refunds for all tickets and\npasses purchased. Keep an eye on our website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfastfilmfestival.org\">www.belfastfilmfestival.org<\/a> for\nfurther updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thank our customers, our staff, volunteers, guests, funders,\nsponsors and venues for your support, and look forward to the clear weather\nonce the storm has passed.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with heavy hearts that we are announcing the rescheduling of the 20th Belfast Film Festival.\u00a0 To slow down the spread of COVID-19 and protect our guests, audiences, staff and volunteers, the festival, which was due to start on April 1st, will now be postponed until the autumn. \u00a0 We considered the \u2018social distancing\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2020\/03\/20th-belfast-film-festival-postponed\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18416,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18415\/revisions\/18416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}