Film Hub NI has partnered with Element Pictures to tour Shelly Long’s A Bump Along The Way across various community cinemas and art centres throughout Northern Ireland as part of their Collective scheme.
Kicking off in Newcastle (Saturday 11 January) and concluding in Rostrevor ( Tuesday 28 February) the tour will include screenings in Ballyclare, Dungannon, Omagh, Ballymena, Limavady and Enniskillen.
The film which opened the Belfast Film Festival last year and screened at both the Galway Film Fleadh and Toronto International Film Festival in 2019 tells the story of Pamela. a fun-loving, 44-year-old single mum Pamela (Bronagh Gallagher) who becomes pregnant following a boozy one-night-stand with a man half her age, much to the shame of her buttoned-up teenage daughter Allegra (Lola Petticrew).
As Pamela deals with her unexpected pregnancy and the growing pains of the disgruntled Allegra, the challenges they both face ultimately bring mother and daughter to a better understanding of themselves and each other.
The Tour in full
- Saturday 11 January (7 PM) – Newcastle Community Cinema
- Wednesday 15 January (7 pm) – Ballyclare Community Cinema
- Friday 17 January (8:30 pm) – Subterrerain Film Club (Omagh)
- Wednesday 22 January (8 pm) – Fermanagh Film Club
- Wednesday 23 January (7:30 pm) – Seamus Heaney Homeplace ( Bellaghy )
- Thursday 24 January (7:30 pm) – Dungannon Film Club
- Tuesday 28 January (8 pm) Ormeau Community Cinema (Belfast)
- Thursday 30 January (8 pm) Flowerfield Arts Centres (Portstewart)
- Saturday 1 February (7 pm) Braid Film Theatre (Ballymena)
- Thursday 6 February (7 pm) Roe Valley Arts Centre (Limavady)
- Tuesday 28 February (7 pm) Aurora Community Cinema (Rostrevor )
For more information on the film’s tour check out Film Hub NI’s website.
About Film Hub’s Collective Scheme
Working on at least three titles per year, Film Hub NI will work with distributors and filmmakers to support non-theatrical screenings across the country with marketing, assets, and events, such as Q & As, around the tours. Collective will also assist in amplifying theatrical releases through marketing, in advance of the smaller venue tours.
Key benefits of the touring scheme:
- Getting local independent film in front of audiences through the thriving community cinema network that has a proven record of attracting good audiences for local content.
- Bridging the gap between audiences, exhibitors and the production sector, and highlighting the opportunity for distributors to work with a collective of willing venues.
- An opportunity for Film Hub NI to develop strong relationships with distributors and the production sector.
Info for filmmakers and distributors
- If you have a film that has secured an upcoming theatrical release and would benefit from reaching a wider audience across Northern Ireland, please contact us.
- Priority will be given to films made primarily in the UK and Ireland, but we will consider films from further afield if we feel there may be an audience for it.
- We are open to every genre, including documentary and animation. Film selection is at the discretion of Film Hub NI, and will be matched against criteria based on subject, audience appeal and marketing potential.
- While we will support the theatrical release of chosen titles, the main focus of our promotion will be on the non-theatrical release. These venues will use DVD/Blu-ray to show the films.
- Most community venues programme their seasons and events well in advance so the more notice we have, the more chance there is of securing more venues.
- We will require aggregated audience figures across all theatrical sites, which we will add to our venue figures in order to satisfy BFI funding requirements.
Info for interested cinemas
- Potential titles will be sent to selected members of the Film Hub NI membership for consideration. If three or more venues can take the film in a reasonable period of time then we will proceed.
- Film Hub NI will create assets for each title, and support the tours with social media, marketing and PR. We will also liaise with distributors directly to secure (and pay for) licenses, and ensure DVDs reach venues well in advance of the screening date.
- All venues need to comply with BFI reporting requirements.
For more information on Collective please contact Sara Gunn-Smith at Film Hub NI.