The films you the audience voted for turned out to be very different from those that proved popular at the box office.
While over 1,000 people came to see An Education, followed by large audience figures for Up in the Air and Nowhere Boy, when it came to our online poll it was two Japanese films that came out on top.
Departures, with its fresh take on life and death through the eyes of a young ceremonial corpse-washer, won a resounding 18% of the vote with the understated meditation on family life, Still Walking, second with 13%.
All over for another year. Dates for Borderlines 2011: Friday 25 March to Sunday 10 April
Thanks to everyone who came to one of our 200 plus screenings for your support and we hope you enjoyed the film festival as much as we did!
Don't forget you have a week to vote for your favourite film on our online poll.
If you didn't get a chance to fill in one of our questionnaires you can still do this online.
A special thank-you to all projectionists and technicians without whom nothing would have appeared on the big screen, also to our volunteers including all of the dedicated Flicks in the Sticks promoters who bring cinema to all corners of the Marches the year round.
And just to bring everything full circle, here's the moment before the first screening of the Festival, Nowhere Boy in the Studio at The Courtyard in Hereford at 2pm on Friday 26 February.
And a snapshot from the auditorium just before the penultimate film, The Hurt Locker, 6.30pm on Sunday 14 March in the Main House, again at The Courtyard.
N.B. You can only vote once from the same computer!
The poll closes one week after the end of the Festival, at 11pm on Sunday 21 March. The results will be announced here on the Festival blog and will feed through to News Updates on the Welcome page of the Borderline website.
Borderlines is such a difficult event to pin down we thought we'd throw out the challenge - in the form of a photography competition - to our audiences to capture the spirit of the festival, not an easy undertaking as most events take place under low light conditions. You can either submit images via Flickr to the Group Borderlines snapped! or e-mail your entries with Borderlines snapped! in the subject line. But no more that 1 photo per person per day, please!
The competition will be judged by Hereford Photography Festival and the prize (in addition to the kudos) is Riviera Cocktail, a film about the Edward Quinn, photographer of the 1950s glitterati, DVD courtesy of MovieMail. Deadline for entries is Tuesday 16 March, two days after the close of the Festival.
Borderlines is here! And all over the place - 40 venues from Wem in North Shropshire to Ross in South Herefordshire and some far-flung and spectacular spots in between.
I did a radio interview at BBC Hereford anf Worcester yesterday and we were speculating afterwards whether Borderlines would take the prize for the largest surface area for a festival, 2,000 square miles or so (without checking my facts)?
But we have ways of guiding you. Consult the Venues page on our website which has a link to our lovingly compiled Google map. We've attempted to pinpoint our locations with earth-shattering accuracy - postcodes in rural areas can have a notoriously wide spread. Clicking on a venue also now provides details of what's showing there.
You can still get the brochure browsing experience online (thanks to issuu) both here and via the Press page of our website. The brochure can be downloaded as a pdf from issuu if you prefer.
In order to help plan your viewing we've put the whole Borderlines programme into an iCal file that Mac users can download from our website. Scroll down below the sign-up form in the sidebar and you'll find the link.
The download is also available on the Programme page below the Events list.
PC users should also be able to use this facility in Windows Outlook. After download, choose the File>Import command (rather than Open) in Outlook, use the Wizard and when prompted for file type select .ics or .vcs.
Full programme details and online booking (for The Courtyard Hereford tickets only) now operational.
The Courtyard Box Office is now open for bookings. Check out their Festival Ticket offer, a discount of £1 per ticket when you book for 5 or more events in one transaction. Please note that the offer doesn't apply to online ticket purchases; you'll need to call the Box Office on 01432 340555 or go along in person.
Daytime screenings before 3pm are also discounted at £3 and these are excluded from the above offer. Friends of The Courtyard are entitled to a 10% discount.
Our latest venue, Wem Town Hall in North Shropshire, is also offering a special deal, all 4 films in their programme for £12 (£6 saving!) when bought at the same time. They're showing silent Soviet masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera and Buster Keaton's Neighbors with piano accompaniment by Paul Shallcross, the new biopic about John Lennon's formative years, Nowhere Boy, and two fabulous but very different music-themed films The Wind Journeys and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love. Call 01939 237075 to book.
The next festival will take place from Friday 26 February - Sunday 14 March, earlier than ever, brrrr!
Without the luxury of the roof of a central office over their heads, the entire Borderlines team got straight down, today, to the serious business of planning another major rural film festival.
