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- The programme for the 55th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express launched today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron, celebrates the imagination and excellence of international filmmaking from both established and emerging talent. Over 16 days the Festival will screen a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres . There will also be screenings of 110 live action and animated shorts. Many of the films will be presented by their directors, cast members and crew, some of whom will also take part in career interviews, masterclasses, and other special events. The 55th BFI London Film Festival will run from 12-27 October. Special Screenings Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles' 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies' closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
- The climax of the 2010 BFI London Film Festival, as the best of more than 300 films from around the world shown during the festival is honored with the Star of London award. Danny Boyle - the BAFTA and Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave - receives the ultimate accolade of the BFI Fellowship, and other awards recognize newcomer talent, first-time filmmakers and documentaries. Martin Scorsese also pays tribute to the BFI Archive, celebrating 75 years of film restoration including an incredible film of Scott's expedition to the Antarctic, screened as part of the festival.
- Amazing live performances recorded at Brighton Centre (2003) and St. Luke's LSO (2004). Features live performances from Press Play on Tape, Stuck in D'80s, Visa Röster, The C64 Mafia and Larsec. An additional performance from the legendary Rob Hubbard is also included.
- Gareth arrives at Northolt High School to begin the choir development process. Despite the school having no choral music tradition, he receives 161 applicants - 117 girls and 44 boys - from the approximately 1,300 member student body. He needs not only to find the 30 best singers, but sufficient numbers for each of the four parts, which becomes an issue especially for the bass clef voices as few of those boys applying have had their voice change. During the audition process, he discovers that many have beautiful voices, but at this stage of their vocal history are purely trying to mimic popular music singers and their songs, especially in the R&B genre. Before he announces the 30, he must check the status of a few which may dismiss them from the choir. After announcing the 30 members, who collectively are now called the Phoenix Choir, Gareth has a deadline in four week's time (seven rehearsals): record a submission CD to the World Choir Games selection committee. He has to get the choir to a point where the submission will impress him and the selection committee enough to be chosen to attend the competition in China seven months later. Beyond issues with learning the music, Gareth has problems with one perpetually absent choir member, and a brother and sister dealing with a family issue. To get the choir inspired and as a bonding exercise, Gareth takes them on a field trip to the Barbican Theatre in London to experience what it's like to stand on an auditorium stage to perform, and so that they can all spend some quality time getting to know each other.
- Gareth has sent in the submission CD to the World Choir Games selection committee, and the choristers, after the Christmas break, have returned to school for the start of the spring term. After viewing the World Choir Games website and seeing the choirs that have sent in applications, Gareth notices both that the Phoenix Choir, in his words, seem "out of their league", and that there is no mention whatsoever when notification will be sent if they have been accepted. He also runs into a number of known and unexpected problems: some students, for religious reasons, cannot sing Christian or mythologically related songs (on which most classical music is based), there is some attrition especially among the crucial bass clef voices, and the bass clef sections are neither vocally strong or confident. With the latter, Gareth realizes he has to go on a direct recruitment process in the hope of finding the bass clef "diamonds in the rough" at the school. After that process, he also comes to the realization that he will have to go through another full audition process of existing choristers to whittle the thirty-eight down to the maximum twenty-five, plus four alternates, and do it sooner than later. Even with the new deeper voices added, the first classical piece they are learning is just not coming together as Gareth would like, and as such he decides to take a slightly different approach by bringing in opera singing friends for support to show how classically trained voices can sing both classical and popular music. Two envelopes finally arrive through the post: the Chege family learn if their husband/father has received his visa to enter the UK, and the choir learn if they have made it to the World Choir Games. But even more scary than these two envelopes is news from Gareth: the choir is scheduled to give their first public performance to the less than friendly fifth formers, who are known to mock and ridicule for its own sake.
- Fiona Bruce chairs the topical debate for the first time. The audience in London ask the panel - Has the Government lost control of the Brexit process? How can we make London's streets safe again?