As part of this year’s Forest Row Festival, Forest Row Film Society will include an online film festival with its regular screenings.

Combining some short films of previous Forest Row Festivals with award-winning international short films, the online film festival is an exciting new initiative for the film society.

“The main objective of the Forest Row Festival is to get the whole community out into the village, but we also wanted to use the films made of previous festivals to encourage people to come. It was an easy step to add other films and make it even more of an event,” commented Brad Scott, who is involved with both the film society and the festival.

Brad also laid down a challenge: “if people make short films of the festival this year, we will have a ready-made forum for showing them next year, so get your camcorders out and let us see your take on the festival.”

During the festival, a great Russian version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya will also be screened in the village hall on 3rd October.

The online film festival will run from Saturday 27th September at http://forestrowfilmsociety.org/festival08.