Emmerdale stars hold WSPA fundraising film festival this weekend
Apr 23, 2009
© Dominic Brunt
Emmerdale actors Dominic Brunt and Mark Charnock will be hosting the second annual Zombie Film Festival in Leeds, on Sunday 26th April.
The film festival, held at the Cottage Road Cinema – one of the oldest in the country, is in aid of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). Dominic, who plays vet Paddy Kirk and Mark, who plays Chef Marlon Dingle, in the ITV 1 soap Emmerdale hope their obsession with zombies will help raise funds for WSPA.
Booking details and festival information
Date: Sunday 26th April
Time: 12 noon until 12 midnight
Where: Cottage Road Cinema (Click here for Streetmap)
Tickets: £15 on the door or buy in advance, call 0113 275 1606
The film line up includes: Plan 9 from Outer Space, Black Sheep, Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Rec, with more titles to be confirmed.
Dominic and Mark will be giving a short introduction to each film and explain why it was chosen. The movies will be both old and new, giving fans of zombie culture a chance to see classics from the past on the big screen for the first time and some more recent contributions to the genre that may have passed them by.
Dominic adds: “We are doing this for fun and the love of all things zombie. Last year’s festival was a huge success and we would like to encourage zombie fans to come along for the whole event from noon and to midnight – hopefully not to terrified to walk home in the dark!”
Tickets sales profits will go to support WSPA
© WSPA
WSPA Ambassador Dominic Brunt said: “World Society for the Protection of Animals is a charity close to our hearts. I have always loved wildlife, especially bears. A couple of years ago I visited the WSPA-funded Romanian bear sanctuary and witnessed the charity rescuing a bear from an illegal zoo."
He added: "Many of the bears in the sanctuary were originally taken from the wild as cubs; often their mothers will have been shot by hunters. For these animals the best option is a forested sanctuary, where they can behave as naturally as possible.”
Get more information on the second Leeds Zombie Film Festival