Fly-Tower Films
Enjoy free films as part of the Watch This Space festival from the National Theatre
As part of the Watch This Space Festival at the National Theatre, Kirin Ichiban Beer presents BAFTA short films on the fly tower.
Kirin Ichiban, official beer of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, supports a series of BAFTA-nominated and awardwinning short films and animations projected onto the National Theatre fly-tower.
Screening highlights include:
The Pearce Sisters - humorous adult animation nominated for an award at this year's Orange British Academy Film Awards (dir. Luis Cook); J'taime John Wayne - a stylish and funny take on the French New Wave (dir. Toby MacDonald, 2001); Rabbit - 50s educational stickers are ingeniously and meticulously animated in this after-dark fairy tale (dir. Run Wrake, 2005); Heavy Metal Drummer - a charming comedy set in Morocco about a teenage metal fan (dirs. Luke Morris & Toby MacDonald, 2006).
Films are being screened Fridays and Saturdays on the following dates: July 25th and 26th and August 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th, 15th and 16th. All screenings kick off at 9.30pm.
Find out more about Watch This Space.
How to get there
Rail - Waterloo, Waterloo East or walk over the Hungerford Bridge from Charing Cross.
Underground - The closest tube stations are Waterloo (on the Northern, Bakerloo & Jubilee lines), Southwark (on the Jubilee line) or walk over the Hungerford Bridge from Embankment (on the Northern, Bakerloo, District and Circle lines).
Buses - All the following buses stop on Waterloo Bridge and you can take the steps down to Southbank on either side of the bridge or use the pavements that slope down away from the river and then double back to take you to Upper Ground, which runs behind the Southbank Centre: 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243, 341, 521, X68, Riverside Bus (RV1 - which also stops on Upper Ground which runs by the back of the Southbank Centre). 77 (Upper Ground near the Festival Hall), 211 & 507 (Waterloo Road near the main station), 381 (Stamford Street). 45, 63 & 100 all stop at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, and there is a 10 minute walk along the riverside to the Southbank Centre.
