Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) will hold a red-carpet gala for Swallows and Amazons on December 9 at Madinat Arena. The family film is one of three in the Cinema for Children programme at the 13th edition of Diff, taking place between December 7-14.
To help you get ready for Christmas, we’re giving you the chance to win one pack of each of these three exclusive Nancy Blackett Trust Charity Christmas Cards (pictured below). Nancy Blackett, named after the famous “Swallows and Amazons” character, was author Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht and appeared as the Goblin in “We Didn’t Mean to…
Nancy Blackett’s new mast has come a huge step closer to reality thanks to the support of Trinity House, the 500-year-old Lighthouse Authority (and so much more). The Trinity House Maritime Charity has awarded the Nancy Blackett Trust a grant of £3,000.
The new Harbour Pictures film of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ starring Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott and Kelly Macdonald will be released to the UK public on DVD and Blu-ray on 12th December 2016.
Cumbrian landscape is acknowledged the world over as some of the most dramatic and beautiful on this planet – but less well recognised is its starring role in numerous films over the past 70 years.
So here we sit, on the shores of an adventure…
And that opening image, of Roger tacking diligently up the field towards his mother, resisting the urge to run straight towards her and the message she holds because it would break the reality he has constructed. These children are doing Real Life, in a big way,..
Fans of Arthur Ransome’s classic Lakes’ story Swallows and Amazons will have a chance to live the adventure for themselves next summer. Ambleside-based Swim the Lakes are hosting a weekend activity holiday which includes a sail on “Captain Flint’s houseboat” and a swim to Wild Cat Island.
As one of Scotland’s most acclaimed screenwriters, she helped create one of the biggest family films of 2016 with the Swallows and Amazons remake.
It is autumn 1919. Moscow is surrounded by counter-revolutionaries. Arthur Ransome is known to be a Bolshevik sympathiser. He’s fallen in love with Trotsky’s secretary. They both know they’ll be lynched or shot if Moscow falls. Somehow they must escape. On Ransome’s desk is a stone from Peel Island on Coniston Water. Is it a powerful enough talisman to get him home?