LIGHTS, camera, action - the town's Page to Screen festival is rolling.

Beginning yesterday and continuing until Sunday, this year sees Page to Screen mark its 10th anniversary.

The festival, which celebrates the adaptation of books into film, features screenings and talks at Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport Electric Palace, the Unitarian Chapel in the Garden, Washingpool Farm and Bridport Youth Centre. This year’s curator is author, actor and director Garth Jennings. Garth directed The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

After last night's sold-out gala screening of On Chesil Beach, featuring a talk from author Ian McEwan, there is still plenty to look forward to.

Today's highlight is a screening of the 1963 Oscar Winner Whatever Happened to Baby Jane at 1.30pm. It is the story of two sisters, both ageing retired movie stars, living together in a decaying Hollywood mansion. The speaker Helen Jacey is the author of The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters. She is a script consultant and screenwriter for the international film industry. She will be discussing the hot topic for 2018 – women in film.

Daily at 11am there will be a must-see movie from the 1970s as chosen by the Bridport Film Society.

Guest curator Garth Jennings and the festival's first curator Jonathan Coe have also chosen 70s films for screenings, both directed by Billy Wilder, The Front Page, will be shown at 5pm on Sunday and Fedora will be shown at 2pm tomorrow.

Later tomorrow at 10pm there's a special screening of Young Frankenstein with a live score at the Chapel in the Garden to tie in with the 200th anniversary of the original novel's publication. Festival curator Garth Jennings will speak of his love for this irreverent adaptation and with The Front Page, to be shown on Sunday at 5pm, he reflects on the influence of Billy Wilder’s work on his own development as a filmmaker.

On Saturday, Garth Jennings will present the screening of his adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, hitting the big 40 since its original broadcast as a comedy serial on Radio 4 in 1978. But the most impressive cinematic birthday must go to James Ivory who is 90 this year and the oldest ever winner of an Oscar - this year's Best Screenplay for Call Me By Your Name, which is being shown at 8pm on Saturday (15).

This morning will see a screening of the 1963 Oscar Winner Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. It is the story of two sisters, both ageing retired movie stars, living together in a decaying Hollywood mansion. The speaker Helen Jacey is the author of The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters. She is a script consultant and screenwriter for the international film industry. She will be discussing one of this years most fiercely debated topics - women in film.

Tomorrow (13) will see a screening of new release The Shape of Water. The American fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro has been Oscar nominated and has won multiple Golden Globes and BAFTAs. The modern-day fairy tale that chronicles the unlikely romance between a mute cleaner and the mysterious creature imprisoned at the laboratory where she works.

The last film of the festival will be Journey’s End starring Sam Caflin and Paul Bettany with the film's producer and screenwriter as guest speakers. Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.

FUN FOR YOUNG FILM FANS

There will be a number of events for children. First up today is Mary and the Witch’s Flower, a 2017 Japanese anime fantasy film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and animated by Studio Ponoc. This will be followed by Babe, the 1995 tale of a pig raised by sheepdogs that learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett. The final children’s screening will be by A Wrinkle in Time, an American science fantasy adventure starring Reese Witherspoon and Opera Winfrey.

A FEAST OF FILMS

There will be complementary canapés and nibbles at all From Page to Screen's evening films.

Tonight's Filmstars Don't Die in Liverpool is partnered by Leakers who first provided food for the festival when it started ten years ago. Tomorrow Soulshine will bring their special fare to The Shape of Water while Bearkat provides stylish sustenance to the late-night audience for Young Frankenstein at the Chapel in The Garden.

Also look out for mixologist and film fan Lloyd Brown's special Friday night offer at his pop up cocktail bar The Dark Bear at Aroma. He'll give a £1 discount for anyone with film festival tickets - a Blood Infusion, Bridport Dagger or Dark Zombie might hit the spot between the pair of monster movies. The Olive Tree will cook up suitably Italian antitpasti for Lombardy love story Call Me By Your Name on Saturday night, while New House Farm plans a final repas for the closing film, Journey's End on Sunday.

For more information or to book films visit bridport-arts.com, or call or visit the Bridport Arts Centre box office between 10am and 3pm Tuesday to Saturday.