QUAD’s Summer Nights Outdoor Film Festival returns in 2018
Summer Nights Outdoor Film Festival is back for an eighth year at thirteen fabulous locations across the UK. Presented by QUAD on an inflatable twelve metre screen, Summer Nights Festival screenings offer the chance to enjoy the great outdoors for a unique cinematic experience.
This year the festival will be back at Hardwick Hall for screenings of The Greatest Showman (PG) and Dirty Dancing (12A).
Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron star in The Greatest Showman, the musical re-telling of P.T. Barnum’s creation of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. After Barnum (Hugh Jackman) loses his job as a clerk, he takes out a bank loan to enter the amusement industry, eventually opening Barnum’s Circus. After being berated for simply running a ‘freak show’, Barnum hires a young playwright (Zac Efron) in order to appeal to a more highbrow audience. Featuring all the dazzling spectacle of the circus itself, the film proved to be an unexpected box office sensation with the song ‘This is Me’ going on to become a Golden Globe winner.
In Dirty Dancing drama, music and romance are the order of the day for Frances “Baby” Houseman as she spends summer in a holiday camp and falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze).
Hardwick Hall will be screening The Greatest Showman on Friday 17th August, Dirty Dancing on Saturday 18th August.
QUAD is Derby’s centre for art and film, a mixed arts venue based on the Market Place. The centre has been at the heart of Derby’s cultural scene since it opened in September in 2008, and is internationally recognised for providing quality and excellence in the Arts.
QUAD delivers an exciting, innovative and diverse programme which is popular with visitors of all ages, with a reputation in Photography, digital innovation & family friendly events. The venue organises Derby Film Festival, FORMAT International Photography Festival and Summer Nights Outdoor Film Festival.
