To parrot the official blurb:

Screen WM’s Festival of Film gives you the chance to enjoy free screenings of sensational films that have been inspired by, produced or filmed in the West Midlands

It runs from 16-29 November at venues around the region. Here’s the main list of films, and here’s what’s playing when and where in Birmingham:

• Tormented – 16 Nov, AMC Broadway Plaza
• Almost Adult – 20 Nov, The Drum
• Faintheart – 21 Nov, AMC Broadway Plaza
• The Children – 23 Nov, Electric Cinema
• Road to Guantanemo – 25 Nov, Electric Cinema
• Confetti – 28 Nov, AMC Broadway Plaza
• Nativity – 29 Nov, AMC Broadway Plaza

The other films showing around the region are Special People, Clubbed, The Mandrake Root, 1 Day and Straightheads.

Snap up tickets here.

Faintheart, the user-generated film that Screen WM had a hand in bringing through, will be shown free of charge in 150 cinemas and on MySpace on 27 Jan 09 with a DVD release a week later.

The locations for the screenings will be decided by visitors going to the Faintheat MySpace page and putting their postcode into the map widget (you may have seen bands using something similar to gauge support before going on tour).

As I write this, Birmingham and Wolverhampton are tied in third behind Bournemouth and London as the most popular locations. Have a look at this trailer and decide if you want to see the film for free round these parts.

FAINTHEART official trailer from superhero on Vimeo.