A series of gothic tales will be shot in Bolton it has been announced following the huge success of a film released earlier this month. And now avid fans of film, literature and culture are being given a second chance to watch a free screening of classic tale. Brett Gregory’s short film adaptation of Franz Kafka’s ‘Before the Law’ held its first free screening on, Wednesday, October 16.
The film, shot in the prison cells of the Old Magistrates Court on Le Mans Crescent, and at Pigeon Tower in Rivington, was officially recognised by Bolton Council as a part of its Bolton Town of Culture 2024 celebrations. Brett said: "The atmosphere was electric, and the responses were extremely passionate. It’s like everybody knew that the film was actually about something, about something that matters, about being human.
"In the main the film asks who we are as people and why, tragically, do most of us wait for permission to live our lives? Permission we often will never receive. "For example, during the post-screening Q&A, a Bolton-based educationalist told me I was ‘sitting on a goldmine’, and that teachers and lecturers would ‘bite my hand my hand off’ to have the opportunity to use the film as a learning resource. "It covers everything,’ she said, performing arts, English literature, English language, history, media studies, media production, and even religious studies.
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