The event takes place from 5th – 8th August at Eastnor Castle in the Malvern countryside and plays host to a diverse mix of music, comedy and film. Book your tickets here.

Rip! A Remix Manifesto is an open source documentary that explores copyright in remix culture. With a theatrical screening at London’s hmvcurzon earlier this year, the title has also played to sold-out theatres at  SXSW, Whistler Film Festival and Sheffield Doc/ Fest

Rip! A Remix Manifesto will be playing at The Big Chill 2010

Founded by Academy-Award winning film-maker Michael Moore, the festival has grown to be one of the largest in Midwest America.

American Radical will screen on Friday July 30th, 12pm at the State Theatre and again on Sunday August 1st, 9pm at the Milliken Auditorium.

Book tickets for these screenings here.

The title has been a great success on the festival circuit, winning the Audience Choice Award at Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2009. The doc has also screened at many festivals throughout 2010, these include Hot Docs film Festival, Henley International Film Festival, and the Chicago Palestine Film Festival.

The personal portrait follows the trials and tribulations of Jewish American professor Norman Finkelstein, son of concentration camp survivors and a fierce, outspoken critic of Israeli and American policy regarding Palestine

American Radical will play at this year's festival

Houston We Have A Problem has already featured in official selection categories at IDFA, AFI and
Cambridge International Film Festival.

An oil doc with a difference, Houston We Have a Problem offers a unique insight into the world of US ‘Big Oil’, unveiling an energy crisis  seen from the perspective of those who actually produce and sell oil.

Ernest Hardy @ LA Weekly

There’s a tendency among well-meaning liberals to romanticize the people most of us look past as we race through our day — the homeless, the working poor — as founts of uncommon common sense and great spiritual insight. Director Patrick Shen comes close to doing just that in his documentary The Philosopher Kings but mercifully falls short of such a noble misfire. Instead he’s crafted a hypnotic, moving paean to the complex lives of his subjects, a half-dozen custodians at institutions of higher learning all across the country. Shen treks coast to coast — and even to Haiti — to get the backstories on the folks (Vietnam vets, survivors of domestic abuse, immigrants) who clean toilets and offices and perform sundry other duties at some of our most prestigious colleges and universities. One man works days as a custodian and nights as a cabdriver to support both his massive extended family and his village in Haiti; another is a fledgling political artist, who studies the work created by students at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts so he can better create his own agitprop. The visuals are crisp, and Shen’s seamless editing creates conversation between his various subjects, as the spoken musing of one plays over the images of another. Kings arcs hard toward its uplifting ending, but it also completely completely earns it.

Soka Afrika follows the lives of two young African footballers, Kermit from South Africa and Ndomo from Cameroon. Both are talented and both find themselves alone in Europe taking different paths in pursuit of the same dream: success in professional football on the world stage. These young men’s stories reveal the struggle at the heart of much of African life: football has become a vital lifeline to which many will desperately cling.

MercuryMedia International has announced that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought interest to its Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster. The Smoking Dogs Films production, which was made for BBC2 last year, looks at the fight between Alaskans and Exxon. Deals have been struck with , SVT Sweden, Planet Zifra Poland, History Channels UK and Asia, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and VTM Belgium.