Borderlines is an annual film festival held in multiple locations around the

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borders. The first festival took place in 2003.

History

Borderlines Film Festival started in 2002 with the ambition to deliver a rural film festival covering Herefordshire and Shropshire, with the inaugural festival launched in 2003. The founding director was David Gillam, who remained director until 2013, and was also inaugural director of the

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. Borderlines was reportedly the country's first rural film festival. By 2015 it was reported as being "the UK's largest rural film festival". In 2019 the event attracted 21,678 in attendance. The festival has shown films in a range of unusual circumstances, including a cycle ride to a moviebus and showing ''Casablanca'' in an

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Description

The festival is held in multiple locations around the

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, Borderlines had two patrons:

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Chris Menges Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is a British cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers. Life and career Menges was born in Kington, Herefordshire, the son of ...

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* Film festivals established in 2003 Film festivals in England {{UK-festival-stub