THE hot-off-the-press Borderlines film festival programme reveals no less than six recent BAFTA award winners.

The festival opens on March 18 for two weeks, with over 100 screenings of 60 films from 15 different countries.

You'll have the chance to see Mike Leigh's Vera Drake; Jamie Fox's fine performance as Ray Charles in Ray; the unorthodox love affair featured in the Best British film, My Summer of Love; Clive Owen's Best Supporting Actor performance in Closer; the Best Screenplay for Sideways, a rich comedy celebrating the joys of wine and friendship; and A Way of Life from debut Welsh director Amman Asante.

"We're delighted with the BAFTA winners," said festival director David Gillam, "and we're also pleased to be screening so many films by new women directors, such as A Way of Life, Dear Frankie and Afterlife."

Award-winning director Deborah Koons Garcia will fly in from America for the UK premiere of her timely warning on the impact of modern farming on food, The Future of Food.

Garcia (wife of the Grateful Dead's late Jerry Garcia) will talk about her film with Abergavenny Food Festival director Martin Orbach and Hereford's chaplain for agriculture and rural life the Rev Nick Read.

New at this year's festival will be music films.

Aside from a regional premiere for Ray there's The Sound of Brazil, director Mika Kaurismaki's answer to the Buena Vista Social Club; The White Stripes, Jack and Meg White showing just why they are the best live band on the planet right now; and Metallica, a rivetting insight into heavy metal and the billion-dollar music industry.

Abergavenny pianist Paul Shallcross, will play a live accompaniment to classic silents by such stars as Buster Keaton and the 1922 Nosferatu.

While main events centre on Hereford's Courtyard, cinema audiences in Ross, Clifford, Presteigne, Michaelchurch Escley, Ballingham, Garway, Ledbury, Leominster, Bosbury, Yarpole, Ludlow, and Leintwardine will enjoy their own screenings.