Our new Movies in the Bay page goes live this coming week (w/c 8 August 2016) in the pages on your favourite local online platform.
In tribute to the community profiling work being done at Pevensey Baptist Church, Bay Life is to launch a new feature page this week which will present their “Movies in the Bay”.
Begun over a year ago by the church, the Friday monthly feature sees some classic films projected on their wall to much acclaim, all free of charge.
As well as some well sourced classics, there is evidence of intelligent programming.
Films in the afternoon for kids at 4:00pm once a month on a Friday are matched with something for the Mums and Dads in the evenings are 7:30pm.
There have been some neat Spielberg Movies sequences such as ET followed by Duel as well as back to back programmes, such as the inspired Lion King followed by the equally inspired Cry Freedom on the same day.
Must be fun planning the programming. There are some savvy curation skills at work.
Perhaps the most inspired sequence to date was matching the Wizard of Oz at the recent successful Scarecrow Festival 2016 in the afternoon with little known classic, I’m All Right Jack, with local favourite Peter Sellers in the lead role in the evening.
Extraordinary to think that Peter Sellers took another lead role in the community with a free 2 hour one man show for pensioners from South London in the old Village Hall in Pevensey Bay in 1959, just as he was becoming famous, across the road, and coincidently, in the year this film was made.
One of those legendary ‘so called happened things in Pevensey Bay’. Did the event really happen? Really did happen, as a Peter Sellers researcher discovered when he was working on a new documentary about the man. A local press cutting was found by the researcher two years ago in evidence of the claim.
Even if we do not believe in God, we believe in Edwin Pena, Pevensey Bay Baptist Minister and his chief projectionist, Melita Cullis and husband Dave, who together have transformed the fortunes of families on a Friday once a month here in Pevensey Bay with their community events that have become the Talk of the Town.
Audiences up to fifty, sixty in the afternoons and near full houses emerging in the evening as well.
The feature page about Movies in the Bay will go live here on the online platform this week.
A feature column in Bay Life: The Journal, the new hyperlocal newspaper, the big friendly local read, available in newsagents in Pevensey Bay and Westham every third week in the month, will also see a new column for the Movies in the Bay community events.
With both features, as well as programming, news and times, there will be snippets of information about reviews and feedback from people that have been to the Movies in the Bay.
IMAGE CREDIT: I’m All Right Jack, starring Peter Sellers (1959), directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting
