On Saturday January, 22nd, 2011 the Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media Centre will host the inaugural Leicester Documentary Film Festival.

The Festival, which has been organised by the Citizens’ Eye Community News Agency, will run from 12pm until 11pm and feature live music from 9pm.

Screen 2 at the Phoenix will be playing documentaries provided by a selection of our news agency partners, including:

• Bike Film Festival
• British Silent Film Festival
• Leicester Comedy Festival
• LLGB Centre
• Family Action’s Break the Cycle
• Action Homeless
• MACE
• Action Deafness
• Leicester Doc Club

The Screen Room will also be available to local documentary film-makers wishing to showcase their work and the Screen Lounge will be hosting a special marketplace.

If you wish to submit a documentary for viewing in the Screen Room please contact John Coster editor@citizenseye.org

Tickets for the first ever Leicester DocFilm Festival are available from the Phoenix Square Box Office on 0116 242 2800

A day ticket for the event costs £10 with individual film prices of £2. Entrance to the Screen Room is free.

We have invited Citizens’ Eye reporters to review some of the films we are showing/have shown at Phoenix Square. Feel free to let us know what you thought of the film by commenting on the post.