THE cream of the county's film-making community will have their work screened as the curtain comes up on the Worcestershire Film Festival 2014.

Over three days, more than 40 films will be screened at Worcester Arts Workshop, Sansome Street, from some of Worcestershire's most talented filmmakers as well as films from further afield.

Worcestershire Film Festival aims to put the county on the filmmaking map and celebrate the art of film and film making as well as igniting people's interests in local film-making and inspiring them to create their own productions

The organisers also hope to encourage people to take interest in independent film and cinema as well as bring together stakeholders of film, investors and creators to network and collaborate.

Launching on Friday, November 14, the opening gala will include short films from local filmmakers.

Joining in the film festival will be Shrops48 – eight films made in 48 hours during a filmmakers' challenge.

On Saturday, the festival will be screening some of the competition entry films and shorts that will be competing for a much-coveted award at the end of the three days.

Included are love stories in the shape of Titanic Love, thrillers including Echo and social commentary from Silent War.

At 6pm, the After Dark showing starts which includes a collection of short horror based films including the psychedelic, the psychotic and also the occasional zombie.

The following day there will be more from the competition entries followed by the award for the best films.

Possible winners are the aforementioned films as well as the likes of controversial cultural drama No Love Lost, thriller Charlie Says and hard-hitting One in Five as well as a host of others.

Programmer Alan Preece said it gave film lovers a chance to see films not shown at the local cinemas and was also completely free.

Simon Munn, festival organiser, added: “There are so many talented film makers in this county of ours and we can’t wait to show people all of the brilliant films they have made.”

The festival takes place from 7.30pm on Friday evening, 10 am to 5pm then 6pm to 9pm on Saturday and 10am to 5pm and 6pm to 9pm on Sunday.

For more information, log on to worcestershirefilmfestival.co.uk or follow @worcesterfilm on Twitter.