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Amber is a film & photography collective based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England. Amber Films, Side Gallery and Cinema are all part of it. This website brings together a full sense of the activity, history and collections for the first time...
Current Activity and Amber Films are self-explanatory - both come with clips. The Side Photographic Collection is in Photography. Check out what's on at Side Gallery and Side Cinema. Find out about Amber History - we're 40 next May; buy our films, books, prints & posters at the Online Shop; register if you want comment on any of the work. Join the Amber Forum (you need to register separately for this) and keep in contact by signing up for our RSS feeds.
New DVDs from the More4 Amber Season
With a generous description of us as 'the unsung heroes of British cinema' More4's recent season of Amber films has generated a lot of web-interest in the new documentary, The Pursuit of Happiness and the accompanying three feature dramas, Seacoal, Eden Valley and Shooting Magpies. Seacoal and Shooting Magpies were already available, but we've now managed to produce a DVD of The Pursuit of Happiness. Eden Valley will be available in mid January 2009, so if you missed the films... or if you liked them so much you want to see them again... or if you know someone whose DVD library would be enhanced by their inclusion, visit the Online Shop.
Beachlife DVDs from Amber
Hot off the press we have two new DVDs exploring wildly different beach cultures in the North of England. Seacoal was Amber's first feature drama, made with the traveller community gathering coal from the sea at Lynemouth, Northumberland - it won the European Film Award in 1985.
The Writing in the Sand, constructs a working class day out on the beach almost entirely from Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's beautiful black and white photographs. A snip at £15 each, they can be bought via the Amber Online Shop or from Side Gallery.