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Sky Arts is to broadcast a major television documentary titled ‘Fairport Convention: Folk Heroes’ to mark the fiftieth anniversary of legendary folk-rock band. The film features rare archive interviews and footage as well as newly-filmed interviews with the current Fairport members and others.

Preview tickets for the first screening of The Ballad of Shirley Collins have gone on sale. Shirley Collins herself will be in attendance for a post-screening talk, to be hosted by the comedian and critic Stewart Lee.

Watch the 1971 cult classic The Moon & The Sledgehammer via Vimeo. A portrait of the outmoded and unusual Page family – Cut off from society and its influences, their bizarre personal fantasies and philosophies reveal a true independence of existence.

The Somerset floods of 2014 provide the backdrop for writer-director Hope Dickson Leach’s highly assured debut The Levelling, which features a superb central performance from Game Of Thrones’ Ellie Kendrick.

Watch the new 25-minute film on the making of Father John Misty’s new album Pure Comedy due 7th April 2017 on Bella Union (Europe) and Sub Pop (rest of world). The film was directed by Josh Tillman and Grant James.

The beginning of 2016 saw the release of the Songs of Separation album, a project featuring Jenny Hill, Eliza Carthy, Hannah James, Hannah Read, Hazel Askew, Jenn Butterworth, Karine Polwart, Kate Young, Mary Macmaster and Rowan Rheingans. To mark its end a final film was commissioned called ‘The Album and Beyond,’ watch it here.

Watch the award-winning short film ‘La Madre Buena’ (The Good Mother) by up and coming female Yorkshire based director Sarah Clift.The tale of a Mexican mother torn between her politics and pleasing her only son’s birthday wish – to have a Donald Trump piñata.

Fegan’s passion and knowledge of Irish traditional music played by members of the Irish Travelling community is remarkable. This is a captivating documentary, through interviews and supported archive footage he has brought to life the stuff of legend.

Thrill Jockey, following the release of her LP, have revealed a documentary on the mysterious songwriter Jackie Lynn who will be making appearances around the world this Summer.

Award winning Film documentary Bayou Maharajah which tells the extraordinary story of New Orleans rhythm and blues musician James Carroll Booker III will be screened across the UK and released on DVD for the first time.

Watch this short film on English psych-folk musician Simon Finn, a revealing and moving insight into his early life leading up to the release ‘Pass the Distance’ and the time he spent in North America before returning to the UK after 35 years.

Lloyd Kahn is well known for inspiring many people the world over to build their own homes. This short film profiles his move from the geodesic homes he became famous for in the ’70s to the less complicated. The one thing they all share is proof that a home is more than just a shelter.

Sigur Rós are celebrating this year’s Summer Solstice a little differently, you are invited to join them on a 24 hour live trip around Iceland’s coastal road via a Slow TV event being streamed live on Youtube now – a a 1332km trip.

The Ministry is a short film by actor and director Khyan Mansley. He plays a failing author who, just when things look like he has no future, finds out that a cult have an interest in his novel and believe him to be a prophet.

Electric Ladyland is a vintage guitar shop in Bristol which has been running since 1976. Watch a short documentary about the shop and a new video from Bear’s Den who recently paid the store a visit. They don’t walk away empty-handed.

Living a life near isolation in a simple but successful self-sustained way has been the focus of both documentaries and films over the years. We recommend a few including ‘Couple in a Hole’ and the brilliant ‘Two Years At Sea’.

Where You’re Meant To Be stars Aidan Moffat and Sheila Stewart, the last in a line of travelling folk royalty, and a balladeer whose life – and unexpected death, in 2014 – upturned Moffat’s folk assumptions, and diverted the course of Paul Fegan’s film.

The Weather Station shares an intimate behind-the-scenes look at her songwriting and creative process, touching on how personal experience, emotional ambiguity, and the influences of other artists inform her work. On tour now and appearing at this year’s Green Man Festival.