Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival Volunteers Week
This an update to our last blog post. We hope you are all keeping safe and well.
Your Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival is organised completely by volunteers. As it is National Volunteer week (1 – 7 June) of which you can find out more here, each day we will introduce you to someone from the festival. They have answered some questions to tell you a little bit about themselves, scroll down to see for yourself.
Should you like what you hear contact us on our email [email protected] or through our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram (details below).
There’s still plenty of time to get involved this year. You don’t have to be a film buff but you do need to have a passion for community events – we’re looking for people of all ages, you just need to be 18+. As a volunteer we can do with help in all sorts of areas but if you have a particular skill you want to offer please do let us know!
Volunteer #7
Name
Celia Hammond
Which years have you attended or participated in the Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival?
Every year since 2010.
What do you enjoy about being part of the festival?
Being creative on venues and matching films and creating a shared experience
In which way have you participated in a Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival event?
Venue, programmer, festival funding
If you got to choose our next venue to screen a movie at, where would you pick in Peckham/Nunhead?
Peckham Springs
What’s your first memory of Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival?
Met Neil Johns (*one of free film festivals co-founders) at Southwark Arts Forum Young Filmmakers event – I had a wildlife garden venue! 11 years later I’m programming events across Peckham and Nunhead instead!
Which three films would you have as your desert island film choices?
Sweet Summer Sun – for a Rolling Stones sing-a-long and time spent searching for myself in the crowd!
Cool Runnings – Giving me hope
Landfill Harmonic – I screened this a few years ago I’d use it to inspire me to make musical instruments out of the rubbish inevitably washed up on my island!
Favourite location/venue in Peckham/Nunhead
If you could make a book into a film, which book would you choose?
The Book of Harlan – Bernice L Mc Fadden – the way this author weaves scenes and characters would make a beautiful film
Are you old enough to remember Blockbuster video? 😉
Yes
Volunteer #6
Name
Zoe Tallon
Which years have you attended or participated in the Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival?
2019
What do you enjoy about being part of the festival?
It’s fun!
In which way have you participated in a Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival event?
Event Organiser
If you got to choose our next venue to screen a movie at, where would you pick in Peckham/Nunhead?
Gasholder No.13, Old Kent Road former gasworks
What’s your first memory of Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival?
Howard (*volunteer #2 this week scroll down) asking me what event I was planning to organise before I had attended the first meeting or even knew what was going on! (a good insight into the welcoming volunteer lead approach to the festival)
Which three films would you have as your desert island film choices?
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Blade Runner & Clueless
Favourite location/venue in Peckham/Nunhead
I loved the Young Animators screenings at PEM People. The quality of films screened and Q&A afterwards was impressive.
If you could make a book into a film, which book would you choose?
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Are you old enough to remember Blockbuster video? 😉
Yes!
Volunteer #5
Name
Simon Thomas
Which years have you attended or participated in the Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival?
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
What do you enjoy about being part of the festival?
Being able to realise ideas into events
In which way have you participated in a Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival event?
Volunteer Event Organiser, Programmer, Projectionist, Filmmaker.
If you got to choose our next venue to screen a movie at, where would you pick in Peckham/Nunhead?
Peckham Car Park (now Peckham Levels)
What’s your first memory of Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival?
Watching a film in Glengall Wharf Garden.
Which three films would you have as your desert island film choices?
Catch 22 (original), Moonlight, Stalker.
Favourite location/venue in Peckham/Nunhead
Peckham Car Park
If you could make a book into a film, which book would you choose?
I don’t read novels 🙁
Are you old enough to remember Blockbuster video? 😉
Yes
Volunteer #4
Name
Tracey Francis
Which years have you attended or participated in the Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival?
Every year since 2010.
What do you enjoy about being part of the festival?
Being part of a great community
In which way have you participated in a Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival event?
Programmer and designer
If you got to choose our next venue to screen a movie at, where would you pick in Peckham/Nunhead?
What’s your first memory of Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival?
I created the logo that is still in use and co-founded Women in Film SE15 with Else Thomson
Which three films would you have as your desert island film choices?
Queen & Slim, Imitation of Life and Aya of Yop City – brilliant films with great black female leads.
Favourite location/venue in Peckham/Nunhead
Nunhead Library
If you could make a book into a film, which book would you choose?
Queenie – A great contemporary South East London story about a young black woman
Are you old enough to remember Blockbuster video? 😉
Yes
Volunteer #3
Name
Sally Cozens
Which years have you attended or participated in the Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival?
2011, 2018, 2019
What do you enjoy about being part of the festival?
Meeting new people, getting involved in my local community, helping with fun events that are FREE to all. And getting to enjoy films I might not have come across before, the Film Festival volunteers have a diverse range of film tastes so I’m always learning something new.
In which way have you participated in a Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival event?
Volunteer event organiser
If you got to choose our next venue to screen a movie at, where would you pick in Peckham/Nunhead?
Asylum Chapel/Caroline Gardens
What’s your first memory of Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival?
First event was in 2011 when I took my then 13-year-old daughter to a really good filmmaking workshop in a community centre (think it was by Peckham Park Road). Their group came up with idea and storyboard for a short film and she directed it (you can see the film here)
Which three films would you have as your desert island film choices?
Struggling to come up with just three, could come up with at least 30 in blink of an eye!
Casablanca – always been a favourite, the mood. the music and of course the brilliant actors at its core. I’m spoilt for choice with old movies, a lot of them (partic MGM musicals), remind me of lovely childhood Sunday afternoons spent watching with grandparents as they reminisced about seeing them in the cinema.
Get Out – amazing film, seeing it in a packed and very vocal Peckham Plex screening was best way to experience it. Am really missing Peckham Plex during lockdown!!
Third choice would combine music and memories so could dance around the island cheering myself up if feeling lonely. Let’s go with Dirty Dancing, that would remind me of fun times with my sister and our pals.
Favourite location/venue in Peckham/Nunhead
Got to be Nunhead Cemetery. I’ve lived in Nunhead for 22 years, the cemetery’s practically on my doorstep and I’m in there for a walk most weekends (practically every day now I’m working from home!). It’s beautiful, relaxing, and an oasis of nature and calm in Zone 2, makes me feel good whatever’s going on in life. I’ve volunteered to help run the PNFFF screenings there for the last two years – it’s a real privilege to be there after dark, and can honestly say I’ve never felt scared! Also shout out to the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery volunteers, and the cemetery/park staff, they do a great job.
If you could make a book into a film, which book would you choose?
Tricky one – if I’ve loved a particular fiction book I don’t like to see film versions as got such strong images in my head. So I’d go for non-fiction, I couldn’t put this one down and it really captures a life and era. And think of that soundtrack. So Viv Albertine’s memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Are you old enough to remember Blockbuster video? 😉
Haha, yep! When I first moved to London I’d go to the one in East Dulwich. There’s a charity shop there now.
Volunteer #2
Name
Howard Francis
Which years have you attended or participated in the Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival?
Every year since 2010.
What do you enjoy about being part of the festival?
Everyone working together to organise the programme and screenings and to then see people in the community come together and enjoy the films that we have chosen to screen.
In which way have you participated in a Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival event?
Event Organiser
If you got to choose our next venue to screen a movie at, where would you pick in Peckham/Nunhead?
Above Peckham Plex’s entrance on the massive canvas
What’s your first memory of Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival?
2010 – Enjoying a drink (sneaked in our own) at Frank’s Bar after the Live music score screening of Nosferatu. (*Howard is on the left in this picture trust us!)
Which three films would you have as your desert island film choices?
Palookaville – the desperation of the three leads is so real. The Third Man – Cinematography was amazing, music and story superb. Moon – Duncan Jones’s debut sci-fi with Sam Rockwell in an isolated existence.
Favourite location/venue in Peckham/Nunhead
My favourite venue was when we set up in a shop on Nunhead lane which is now Bambuni. We showed Anvil! The Story of Anvil about a Canadian Heavy Metal Band and Sound It Out Jeannie Finlay’s film about a record shop in Stockton-On-Tees. We teamed up with a local record shop who set up in the shop and had djs and live music as well as a photographic exhibition all happening in the space during one week in the festival.
If you could make a book into a film, which book would you choose?
Danny Champion of the World – Roald Dahl. Great story about the bond between a Dad and son.
Are you old enough to remember Blockbuster video? 😉
Yes
Volunteer #1
Name
Ann Lazim
Which years have you attended or participated in the Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival?
Every year since 2010.
What do you enjoy about being part of the festival?
Meeting a diverse range of people of all ages that I may not have met in any other situation, all getting together to do something that brings our community together.
In which way have you participated in a Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival event?
Festival co-ordinator (includes being a voluntary Event Organiser and Progammer)
What’s your first memory of Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival?
Meeting up with a small group of people who had just started to plan the first free film festival in 2010.
Which three films would you have as your desert island film choices?
Mark Cousins’ new epic documentary ‘Women Make Film’ – the clips would give me lots of ideas for films to watch when I get off the island! I guess the other two would be my favourite fairy tale films for grown-ups ‘Company of Wolves’ and ‘La Belle et la Bête’.
Favourite location/venue in Peckham/Nunhead
Outdoors: Peckham Rye because it’s a great green space for all the community and a focal point linking Peckham and Nunhead.
Indoors: The Ivy House – our amazing welcoming local community owned pub.
If you could make a book into a film, which book would you choose?
‘The Dispossessed’ by Ursula Le Guin
Are you old enough to remember Blockbuster video? 😉
Yes!!
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