The Last Picture Show

Name: The Last Picture Show
Start: 2025-11-13T03:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-13T05:30:00+00:00
Location: Amey Theatre

Schedule

Thu Nov 13 2025 at 03:00 am to 05:30 am

UTC+00:00

Location

Amey Theatre | Abingdon, EN

Dear Friends, AFU / ASPS alumni and AFU tutors past and present,
Greetings from Abingdon. I hope you are well and thriving. Please see the attached e-flyer for the AFU's next annual screening, which takes place in the Amey Theatre at 7pm on Wednesday November 12th (three weeks today). As always, tickets and refreshments are free, and should you be able to come, it would be wonderful to see you there.
This will be the last screening over which the London-based film unit tutors and I preside. I retire from Abingdon at the end of December, and from next September, the school moves to a new timetable and the AFU's traditional Wednesday afternoon slot will go, which means it will no longer be practical for the AFU tutors to come to the school. We very much hope Abingdon's tradition of student filmmaking - one that stretches back at least as far as 1953 and the first film made by the young Michael Grigsby - can continue beyond Christmas, and we await further announcements on that.
The AFU in its current form has had a wonderful run. This will be the Unit's 22nd annual screening. The 11 new films on show next month will take to somewhere in the region of 250 the total number of AFU student films that have been produced since 2003. Many of these have won awards and been seen at festivals around the world. AFU students have been able to work with filmmakers of the calibre of Michael Grigsby, Jonas Mortensen, Mikkel Eriksen, Nikolaj Larsen, Arvid Eriksson, Larry Sider, Joanna Harrison, Geoff Dunbar, Rebekah Tolley, Duncan Pickstock, Colin O'Toole, Matt Copson, Mads Junker, Bronwen Parker-Rhodes and Michael Bicarregui. Students have made films in Burma, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Germany, Italy, Kenya and Uganda as well as throughout Oxfordshire and the rest of the UK. Unsurprisingly, many AFU filmmakers are now making their mark in film, television and related disciplines. For me, the AFU has been a wonderful thing to be involved with.
So do join us for our final show, and please bring along anyone you know. You can of course just turn up, though it helps to have a rough idea of numbers for catering purposes. The link to book free tickets is here:
https://www.abingdon.org.uk/sports-and-leisure/performance/the-last-picture-show-afu-annual-screening-of-new-films/
I am sure to have forgotten some names for the circulation list, so if you are still in touch with other AFU filmmakers, or indeed anyone who might like to attend the screening, please forward this invitation to them. And whether you can make it on November 12th or not, thank you so much for being part of the AFU experience.
With all good wishes,
Jeremy