SEVERAL new venues have joined up with a Bradford film festival as it prepares for its second round.

The Drunken Film Festival started last year, and saw short films that had been submitted by filmmakers from around the world screened in a number of Bradford city centre bars, restaurants and cafes.

New venues signed up for screenings this year range from a city centre museum to one of Bradford’s oldest pubs.

The festival was developed by US-born, Bradford-based filmmaker Jax Griffin after it emerged that the city would no longer host an international film festival.

The first event, last July, saw more than 1,300 films submitted by filmmakers from as far as Uzbekistan and the US.

Eventually these were whittled down to 120 and screened in different city centre venues over the week, each day having a different theme.

Film makers who had their work screened ranged in age from only ten to 84.

Several of the venues have been chosen to host the festival again, including The Record Cafe, Bradford Brewery and Brewhaus.

New venues at this year’s festival, which runs from July 14-23, include The Peace Museum in Piece Hall Yard, Assembly, a creative co-working centre on Rawson Place, the Beehive on Westgate, Kala Sangam arts centre in Little Germany. and Peacock, a bar on North Parade that has opened since last summer’s festival.

As well as the films, plans are under way to introduce a screenplay competition at the 2017 event.

Mrs Griffin said: “We’ve tried to broaden out the venues this year so it is not just bars, we want different spaces to be screening the films.

“We’re excited to do it in these new venues. We wanted to make the festival accessible to more people.

“I was really excited when the Peace Museum applied, we have some good ideas for what we’re going to do there.”

The festival will once again be run in partnership with Bradford City of Film which helped with the inaugural event.

Mrs Griffin said: “We had a really good reception last time. A lot of the venues said they did really good business on the day of the festival. It was really beneficial for them as well as being good for the city.”

Other venues announced are Bradford Student Cinema, Delius Arts Centre, Glyde House and Theatre in the Mill.

As well as the films, the festival includes discussions, panels and debates. Filmmakers can submit their pieces from February 1, and submissions are free for the first two weeks.

For more information visit drunkenfilmfest.com