British Film will be the focus for the second week of Ffilm Ffest Mis Mai 07 at Ammanford Miners' Theatre.

To celebrating the work of director Tony Richardson, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and A Taste Of Honey are set to be screened on May 11.

English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer Richardson was born in Shipley, England.

Carving out a niche with his gritty style and challenging subjects, he was a primary figure of the British new wave of filmmakers known as the Free Cinema movement.

His work has included Tom Jones (1963), The Loved One (1965) and the epic, so-called "vivid, glorious mess", Charge Of The Light Brigade (1968).

Richardson died aged 63 in 1991 but his legacy lives on through stark dramas such as The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (1962) (12) and A Taste Of Honey (1961) (12a).

Set in the grim environment of 1960s Britain, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner follows the gritty tale of a rebellious youth (played by Tom Courtney), sentenced to a boy's reformatory for bank robbery.

Rising through the ranks of the institution through his talent at long distance running, it's during these lonely times pounding the ground that he re-evaluates his life and current status.

A Taste Of Honey is a coming of age drama based on the stage play in which shy, 17-year-old Jo (Rita Tushingham) is driven out of home by her promiscuous alcoholic mother's antics. Becoming pregnant with a sailor's baby, she finds a friend and father figure for her child in Geoffrey, a lonely homosexual.

There follows a twisted struggle as Jo's mother, determined to drive Geoffrey off, appears on the scene to take her daughter back'.

The Ffilm Ffest Mis Mai 07 takes place every Friday, 7pm, until May 25 at Ammanford Miners' Theatre.

Tickets are priced £4 for each evening, please call the box office: 0845 226 3508.