Filmonik Kabaret

To energise the local filmmaking community and to kick off this year’s festival in grand style, we’re teaming with Filmonik to present a 4-day pre-festival filmmaking extravaganza out and about on the streets of Salford. Running from November 12th - November 15th at a Top Secret location, with a final public screening at Islington Mill on November 15th from 7pm.  

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. If you’ve always dreamed of making “that little movie”, if only you had the time / talent / equipment, now is your chance to watch that dream crash and burn, and see something else come stumbling from the ashes. 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…

 

Please note, there will be a £10 charge for filmmakers and creatives participating in the Kabaret, to cover food, access to equipment, and other expenses. For more details check out the Filmonik Website or email info@filmonik.com. Facebook users should join the Filmonik Mini Kabaret Facebook Group.

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