David Puttnam is supporting Keighley’s RATMA international film festival.
He has filmed a special message to play before the festival’s gala screening of winning entries this month.
Lord Puttnam’s big-screen appearance at Keighley Picture House will launch a major expansion of the already-successful annual RATMA day.
He is allowing organisers to screen his own debut on film, a video for Paul McCartney’s solo single Maybe I’m Amazed which was filmed in the 1970s.
Lord Puttnam, who spearheaded the revival of the British movie industry in the 1980s, is the first of several film-world notables who have pledged support for RATMA.