Sir John Hurt Film Trust

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Named in memory of Sir John Hurt, the distinguished film actor who lived in Norfolk up until his death in January 2017, the charity’s aim is to promote great cinema in Norfolk.

Passionate about film? Aged 16-19? Interested in a career in the film industry?Yes? The BFI Film Academy is for you!We a...
21/08/2026

Passionate about film? Aged 16-19? Interested in a career in the film industry?

Yes? The BFI Film Academy is for you!

We are delighted to be partnering with
Eye Film and Cinema City, Norwich to deliver a BFI Film Academy short course this Autumn.

The course will take place over the October half term holiday (26 Oct – 30 Oct).

We welcome applications from all over Norfolk, but you will need to be able to travel to Norwich (bursaries are available).

For more information head to our website

Film Hub South East

28/05/2026

Stephen Hawking watched Eddie Redmayne's performance and said at times he thought he was watching himself 🎬

The Theory of Everything won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film and the Golden Globe for Best Actor.

Eddie Redmayne became the first man born in the 1980s to win an acting Oscar for a performance of such physical and emotional precision that it remains one of the great British screen performances of its era.

But this is not simply a film about genius. It is a film about love and about the person who stood beside that genius through everything.

Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking carries the film's quiet emotional weight with an intelligence and restraint that deserves every bit as much recognition as her co-star.

27/05/2026

The craft of screenwriting is something you spend your entire career learning and still feel like a beginner 🎬

From the shape of a scene to the power of a silence the best British screenwriters have left behind enough wisdom to fill a library. Swipe through for five tips that are worth keeping close 📝

Which one resonates with you most? Tell us below 👇

25/05/2026

Josh O'Connor delivered over 150 lambs during filming.

He stayed in character throughout the entire shoot. By the end - director Francis Lee said he was gaunt, isolated and completely transformed 🎬

God's Own Country is the most successful British debut film, both critically and at the box office of 2017.

It won Best British Independent Film, Best Actor for O'Connor and Best Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It received a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film🏆

It is about learning to think critically. To tell stories. To see the world from perspectives different from your own. T...
21/05/2026

It is about learning to think critically. To tell stories. To see the world from perspectives different from your own. To understand how images, sound and narrative shape the way we all interpret the world around us.

The Sir John Hurt Film Trust exists to make great cinema and great film education accessible to young people across Norfolk - regardless of their background, their postcode or what they have been told they are capable of.

Every young person who walks through the doors of Cinema City Norwich with an idea and leaves with the skills to bring that idea to life is exactly why this work matters 💙

20/05/2026

You Were Never Really Here is one of the most visually striking and formally uncompromising British films of the last decade. A film about violence that refuses to aestheticise violence.

A film about trauma that communicates entirely through implication what is shown in the frame and what is deliberately, devastatingly withheld.
Joaquin Phoenix barely speaks.

He does not need to. Every scene carries the accumulated weight of everything his character has lived through and cannot escape.

Lynne Ramsay is one of the most singular filmmaking voices British cinema has ever produced. This film is the proof 🏆

Have you seen it? Tell us what you thought below 👇

Hollywood makes the biggest films in the world. But does bigger always mean better? 🎬This May at Cinema City Norwich we ...
18/05/2026

Hollywood makes the biggest films in the world. But does bigger always mean better? 🎬

This May at Cinema City Norwich we are opening up one of the most fascinating debates in film culture - Hollywood vs The World. American cinema versus world cinema. Big budget versus independent vision. The global blockbuster versus the quietly devastating film made on a fraction of the budget that stays with you forever.

Come with your opinions. Leave with new recommendations. And expect the kind of conversation that only happens when film lovers get together in the same room 🌍

📍 Cinema City Norwich
🗓️ Saturday, 30th May 2026
⏰ 2pm - 5pm

All are welcome - book here now https://bit.ly/3ONMKBe

14/05/2026

Charlotte Wells made this film on a budget of just over a million pounds. It holds a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Sight and Sound ranked it the best film of 2022. Paul Mescal received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Wells won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Debut 🎬

And it is a film about a holiday.

That is the extraordinary thing about Aftersun. On the surface, a father and daughter on a summer break in Turkey in the late 1990s. Underneath - one of the most devastating explorations of memory, love and the things we cannot know about the people closest to us that British cinema has ever produced.

Have you watched Aftersun? Tell us what it meant to you below 👇

You've seen the wand shop scene a hundred times but do you really know the man behind it?Sir John Hurt brought Mr. Olliv...
13/05/2026

You've seen the wand shop scene a hundred times but do you really know the man behind it?

Sir John Hurt brought Mr. Ollivander to life with just a few minutes of screen time, yet left a lasting impression that no one has forgotten. That's the power of a truly great actor 🎬

11/05/2026

Emerald Fennell wrote this film while seven months pregnant during a 23-day shoot. It went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film and change the conversation about what British cinema could say and how it could say it 🎬

Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a performance of absolute precision and controlled fury that earned her an Academy Award nomination and confirmed her as one of the finest screen actors of her generation.

Promising Young Woman arrived like a thunderbolt. Bold, formally daring and completely uncompromising. A film that made audiences laugh and then made them think and then made them furious sometimes all in the same scene 🏆

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