An independent feature film created by a Wolverhampton-based company, exploring queer love and South Asian culture, has been picked up by a major distributor. A Teacher’s Gift, co-produced by New Lion Films, based in Wolverhampton city, will be given a limited cinema release later this year by Peccadillo Pictures; a UK-based distributor of art house, gay and lesbian, independent and world cinema.

latpack Film Festival – a mobile arts organisation – are hosting a line-up of events this summer in Birmingham, including an outdoor cinema screening of the much-loved classic, The Wizard of Oz (1939).