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The Groovy Movie Solar Cinema is entertaining, educational and environmental. We have provided all night entertainment at Glastonbury Festival and Bestival. We have hosted film festivals from Amsterdam to the English Riviera and inspired young people with visits to schools and youth groups. We have put fun into environmental awareness at Green Fairs and community events across the country.

Solar Cinema Tour 2010

In 2010 the Groovy Movie Picture House will be at the following events:
Rebours Festival, Groningen, NL. May 14-15
Glastonbury Festival, Green Futures Field. June 23-27
Lounge on the Farm Festival, Canterbury - July 9-11
Wickham Festival, Hampshire - Aug 5-8
Folkwoods Festival, Eindhoven, NL. Aug 13-15
Rhythm Festival, Bedford. - Aug 20-22

Special film presentations for 2010 in the Groovy Movie Picture House:

In association with the Tipping Point Film Fund, Good With Film and Dogwoof we present some of the most powerful
and provocative documentaries of 2009-2010. Thes films will be screened in the afternoons at Glastonbury Festival, Lounge on the Farm and Wickham festival, and will be introduced by the people behind the Tipping point Film Fund.

Dirty Oil
Canada's vast and toxic oil sands supply the U.S. with the majority of
its oil. Told through the eyes of scientists, "big oil" officials,
politicians, doctors,
environmentalists, and aboriginal citizens directly effected by "the
largest industrial project on the planet today", the filmmakers journey
to both sides of the border to uncover the emotional and irreversible
toll this "black gold rush" is taking on our planet.

Yes Men Fix the World
A true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top
executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business
conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.
From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than
cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all
the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.
Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun?

Burma VJ
Armed with video cameras a tenatious band of Burmese reporters face down
death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country. The
film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in
a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough
documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007,
when the Buddhist monks started marching.

We will also be teaming up with CND to screen a brand new film about the peace movement:
Beating The Bomb
- A film about the history of the peace movement. Made by two independent film makers over three years, it is a film about the biggest weapons of mass destruction ever created, the people who use them and, more importantly, it is about the people who fight them. Featuring Tony Benn, Mark Thomas and Vivienne Westwood.

Mark Thomas has offered us his recording of his live show, ridiculing the laws governing protests...
Serious Organised Criminal
- This is how Mark fought the law ... with the law's permission! It is a laugh out loud funny world inhabited by anarchists, Goths, artists and the Westminster Constabulary, in which Mark becomes a Guinness World Record holder, organises 2,500 protests in one day and changes the law in the process.

Big thanks to Nina Paley for her feature length animated masterpiece
Sita Sings the Blues
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina
is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email.
Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern
comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic
Ramayana.
Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues
earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."