Then…dive in the deep end and donate! Plunge into your pockets and fish out £3 – the price of a swim! Bargain!

Jane Barr, Marcus English, Al Rogers and Nicola Houghton are making a film celebrating lido life in an original, new comedy ‘The Swimmer’ – a British short film packed with all the fun and eccentricities of Brits on a summer’s day.

The film follows their poor swimmer as he tries to swim a few lengths on the busiest day in summer. Swimmers out there will understand!

Clip via youtube from The Guardian (2006 film)

Celebrated director Philippe Lioret’s award-winning new drama WELCOME is a compassionate and inspiring story about the hope of new beginnings and the power of love, centring on two couples contending with issues of separation and dislocation.

17-year-old Bilal has spent three months travelling across Europe, in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend Mina, who has moved with her family to London. The long journey is almost over when he finally reaches the coast of France; the English channel is his last obstacle.

Big River Man is a character study filled with humour, an edge-of-your-seat thrilling adventure and an awareness raising environmental documentary that screens in UK cinemas from 4 September 2009.

The Sundance Award winning film BIG RIVER MAN is being released in cinemas on Friday 4 September 2009, but you can see the film before everyone else at one of the three special preview screenings.

Overweight and over 50 years old, Martin Strel breaks the Guinness Book of Records with what can only be described as the longest, most dangerous swim in history. Strel battles through gangs, unexposed tribes, crocodiles, toxic waste, lethal whirlpools and deadly piranhas during his historic 3,375 mile swim through the Amazon - drinking no less than two bottles of wine whilst still swimming.

The Institute of Sport and Recreation Management have been contacted by a film production company who are working on a film in production in the UK.

The company are looking for two female cold water swimmers aged between 18-30, Caucasian and with roughly the following measurements (5′7 height / 34″ chest and 26″ waist) to body double one of the actors for a scene they are shooting in a waterfall in Wales in July. Are you or anyone you know interested?