Community

Salford has always been a festival with a strong community focus. We pride ourselve on being a people's festival. This section of the website will be dedicated to the work of Community organisations and filmmakers, and above all to the communities themselves.

 

As the site develops, we will be populating this page with information about training possibilities, projects and events and the ways in which people can get involved. This will be a year-round resource, presented in association with our festival partners at CRIS. Those of you already involved in creative work within the community might like to sign up to CRIS's CREATIVE DIRECTORY.

 

CRIS also oversee and run Salford Film Festival's Youth and Community Strand. This year's festival sees the return of our PATHWAYS Programme, celebrating the work produced by community filmmakers, and an expansion of the SALFORD YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL, featuring screenings, workshops and the world premiere of the specially-commissioned multimedia piece DIRTY OLD TOWN, in which the young musicians of tomorrow stake their claim to pride of place in our SALFORD IS SOUND strand!

STARRING…THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD

Born in 2003 the Salford Film Festival paid special attention to the huge variety that Salford communities are famous for, and in encouraging their involvement in film-making both on screen and behind the camera, paved the way for five more seriously succ

STEVE BALSHAW INTERVIEW

My primary role is to select, source and secure the films, and to build these into a programme of screenings and related events that will hopefully attract an audience - so I deal with filmmakers and producers, and often with the various screening venues,

INNOVATE, DON’T IMITATE!

Manchester prides itself on being “The City of Innovation”. Benjamin Disraeli famously stated that “What Manchester does today, the rest of the world will do tomorrow

THE ORSON WELLES OF SALFORD

He was Salford's Welles and King of Manchester Exploitation movies. He was a pioneer of independent filmmaking in the region. And now there's a book. You should own it.

UNDERSTANDING THE PAST

In our past is our future. Understand one, and you can better visualise the other. This selection of films from the North West Film Archive offers a glimpse of the world that was, here in Salford - some of it now lost forever, some of it simply altered be