17-07-2025
Pictureville to host 'Epic Yorkshire' month to mark Yorkshire Day
Pictureville cinema is celebrating Yorkshire Day with a month-long 'Epic Yorkshire' film season.
The cinema, at the National Science and Media Museum, will launch the season on Yorkshire Day (Friday, August 1).
Epic Yorkshire is presented in partnership with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and also sees the launch of a new, illustrated 'City of Film' map.
The free A2 foldout map, documenting Bradford's cinematic past, present, and future, is designed to facilitate self-led tours of the district's cinemas, community screening venues, and big screen experience locations.
The map will be available from Pictureville and other participating venues from Friday, August 1.
The opening weekend celebrations include free screenings of Yorkshire Film Archive: Social Cinema, a series of short films about social and political issues in the region.
Epic Yorkshire (2025), a new narrated exploration of Yorkshire's landscape, will be presented on the curved Cinerama screen at Pictureville - which is billed as the only public venue globally to use the technology.
Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread (2017), on 70mm film, and Sky Peals (2023) will be shown on the evening of Saturday, August 2.
Audiences attending screenings on that Saturday will also receive special Yorkshire-themed "scran bags."
The season continues throughout August with a programme of films including The Selfish Giant (2013), set in Bradford and inspired by an Oscar Wilde story; Emily (2022), about Emily Bronte; Wild Water (2023); and God's Own Country (2017).
Pictureville's film education strand, CineSpotlights, will also adapt to the Epic Yorkshire theme.
August's edition of CineSpotlights features an illustrated talk with writer, academic, and filmmaker Mark Goodall, exploring the lost history of Bradford's Cinecenta cinema.
There will also be a screening of Charlie Bubbles (1967), the only film directed by Albert Finney and the first film to be screened at Bradford Cinecenta.
Epic Yorkshire also sees the return of The Ceremony (2024), the debut feature by Bradford-born writer-director Jack King, following its world premiere at the 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
After a sellout gala screening hosted by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, Pictureville will continue to screen The Ceremony from Friday, August 22.
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