Overview

According to the official site, the New Forest Festival is a "celebration of Storytelling, Film, Food & Music inspired by the natural beauty and cultural heritage of its setting". Festival launched on 23 September 2010.

Founders

Amongst the founders are the film critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode is an English film critic, musician and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He contributes to Sight and Sound magazine, The Observer newspaper and BBC Radio 5 Live, where he presents Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews with Simon Mayo on Friday afternoons...

, film-maker Simon Miller

Simon Miller

Simon Miller is an award-winning film writer and director from the United Kingdom, who made his feature length directorial debut in 2007 with Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle.-Earlier Life:...

, and academics Linda Ruth Williams

Linda Ruth Williams

Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK. Her special interests include sexuality and censorship in cinema and literature , women in film, psychoanalytic theory and D. H...

and Michael Hammond.

External links

• The official site of the New Forest Festival