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6th Salford Film Festival November 2009

 

6th Salford Film Festival

Friday 20th – Tuesday 24th November

Salford Film Festival will be celebrating its sixth year this November in grand style, with a typically heady mix of Northern film classics, eye-opening international cinema and premieres of new work filmed in and around the region. There’ll be workshops, forums, unexpected guest stars, special performances and multi-media events, retrospectives of the work of local heroes and cult figures showing alongside award-winning new shorts and features; a chance to explore the city’s creative past, and to catch a first glimpse of its cinematic future. The focus may be local, but the view is widescreen, the perspective is international, and we extend an open invitation and a warm welcome to all.

Not content to live in the past and dwell on former glories, this year we’ll be focusing on what is happening NOW.  We’ve SEVEN feature film previews and premieres this year, and a strand dedicated to the exciting new wave of micro budget feature filmmaking in the region - the North West Underground. We’ve gritty and outspoken new work from the local community, hot from the editing suite. And to kick off the festival and encourage local filmmaking, we are running a four-day filmmaking “Kabaret” in association with Filmonik.

But we’ll still retain our sense of history. We’ve a tribute to the great Robert Donat, the local boy who took Hollywood by storm, the return of cult legend Cliff Twemlow, and a special programme of films selected by DJ and author Stuart Maconie, exploring Northern Identity.

Whether you’re in search of the latest cinematic trends, a clearer understanding of the culture and history that produced them, or you just want to be entertained, we’ve got it covered.

More information: www.salfordfilmfestival.org.uk

Filmonik Kabaret at Salford Film Festival!

Thursday 12th – Sunday 15th November

The Sixth Salford Film Festival will be running from November 20th - 24th at various venues across Salford. before then, to energise the local filmmaking community and to kick off the Festival in grand style, Filmonik will be presenting a 4-day pre-festival filmmaking extravaganza out and about on the streets of Salford.

Not so much an “Open Mic”, as an “Open Screen”, Filmonik offers a censure-free public platform to all filmmakers, be they Industry Professionals, self-styled Media Guerrillas, or relative novices still finding their creative voice.

The Kabaret is Filmonik’s boot camp. Filmmakers and creatives from around the world will be descending on Salford with cameras, equipment and bright ideas to create new work that must be completed and screened during the Kabaret week. We’ll provide the workspace and screening venue. All you need to do is write, shoot, edit, and screen your film. In only FOUR DAYS! You’ll never have another opportunity like it. Flat out, peddle-to-the-metal 24/7 filmmaking, where fortune favours the brave, the quick-witted and the fast-working, where only the strong survive and the crazy obsessives flourish. This is the chance to get really involved, to eat, drink, and breathe cinema. The only thing you won’t get to do is sleep. There’ll be access to equipment and talent, a little basic training for novices, opportunities galore for creative collaboration. We’ll even have a few spare script ideas available for people who don’t like to set off without a road map. All we require is your commitment…

More information: www.filmonik.com