As well as the continuation of Cinecity, this week sees two more major film events focusing on the world around us.

Tomorrow, Glyndebourne Opera House is hosting the world premiere of Auditorium, a film by Sophy Rickett, with music by Ed Hughes, which dramatises the opera house's striking architecture.

The film has been a collaboration between Glyndebourne Education, Photoworks and the South Downs Youth Orchestra.

As well as a live soundtrack by the Youth Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Warnes, the performance on the main stage at Glyndebourne features a behind-the-scenes slideshow by students from Brighton and Hove Sixth Form College and the East Sussex Academy Of Music following Sophy and Ed's working processes.

The film has also been screened as part of the Triple Echo exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-On-Sea.

This weekend also sees the launch of SEE, the annual Brighton Documentary Film Festival.

The festival was founded two years ago by Brighton filmmaker David Notman-Watt, who is also director of the production company Back2Back Productions.

"Brighton is a creative hub," says David. "SEE Festival showcases the fantastic documentary talent that can be found here."

The programme features screenings and seminars with directors talking about their creations.

Among the films being screened over the weekend are Daisy Asquith's My New Home Part Two about immigrant children living in Britain; the UK premiere of David Notman-Watt's The Model Prisoners documenting the search for Brazil's most beautiful female convict; Marc Isaacs's All White In Barking investigating modern attitudes to multi-ethnic Britain; and a documentary about what happens during the Glastonbury Festival's year off.

Meanwhile, the seminar subjects will include how to pitch and make documentaries for the internet and television and an editing masterclass.

The film festival will also see the launch of a new documentary production scheme called Real World, with the aim of finding a South East documentary filmmaker to make a short film about a research project by the Institute of Development Studies.

  • Auditorium: Starts 7.30pm, tickets £12/£6. Call 01273 815025.
  • SEE Festival: Starts 10am, tickets from £9/£5 for individual events, day tickets £35/£15 Saturday, £44/£15 Sunday. Call 01273 709709.