Films A-Z
Until the line-up for 2010 is announced, we are keeping 2009's A to Z in place, so that visitors to the site can find out more about the films screened in our previous festival.
Overwhelmed by relationship troubles, career decisions, and the general obligation to “grow up”, Mancunian filmmakers Col and Phil set off to New York to avoid their problems at home and fulfil their dream of making a documentary about their Manhattan-based hero Woody Allen. Lost in the Big Apple, a long way from home, and unable to get a decent cup of tea anywhere, will they finally come to realise where their priorities truly lie? Shot entirely in their own time, and on their own terms with no money to speak of, Mancattan is a sterling example of the North West’s New Underground of uncompromising micro-budget filmmaking.
Screening as part of our NORTH WEST UNDERGROUND strand.
MARK MACREADY AND THE ARCHANGEL MURDERS
Manchester: the supernatural crime hub of the 21st Century. Here butt-kicking super-cop Mark “Mac” Macready must do battle with the misogynous mass-murdering monster known as the Archangel, with his beloved wife’s immortal soul hanging in the balance… Showing as part of CAUGHT SHORT TWO: SHOTS FROM THE NORTH WEST UNDERGROUND
Post-punk, electronic music was very much a dominant force in both the mainstream and non-mainstream charts - and for five years the best electronic music came from Sheffield. This film charts the evolution of the Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Heaven 17 & ABC, who emerged from Sheffield's music scene in the late 70's. Their dream was to destroy rock music. The result was the creation of some of the most influential sounds in pop music. Rare archive footage, soundtrack & exclusive interviews with the famous, almost famous & not famous at all pull you directly into the Sheffield music scene complete with fanzines, nightclubs, weird bands, DIY record labels & all the ambition & creativity that made that time so special.
Eve Wood's most recent film, THE BEAT IS THE LAW, PART ONE is screening on Saturday November 21st, at 3.30pm, as part of the SALFORD IS SOUND strand.
As a child, David’s father, Jiri, left him. Twenty years later, David unwittingly copies his father’s mistakes. Three generations of men confront the lies they live by on a fraught family holiday.
Showing as part of GO EAST!
Scenes of the Blitz damage to Manchester and the clearing up operations, which serve as a painful reminder of just how badly the city was hit during the war. We Would like to thank the Co-operative for letting us screen this film. Showing as part of UNDERSTANDING THE PAST
MEMORY AND DESIRE: 30 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS WITH STEPHEN DUFFY AND THE LILAC TIME
Stephen Duffy was the original singer with Duran Duran, and went on to have a hit single, as Stephen ‘Tin Tin’ Duffy, with the quirkily catchy. ‘Kiss Me’. But that was then. Duffy has since distanced himself from his popstar past, and instead focuses his energies on an altogether more serious, folk-based sound. As he prepares to perform at the Green Man Festival, he looks back ruefully over his wayward, unconventional and often uncommercial career.
MANCHESTER: LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT THROUGH THE POURING RAIN: FILM WORK BY KEVIN CUMMINS
Kevin Cummins is a true iconographer of the Manchester (and Salford) Music scene. From the Buzzcocks to Joy Division, from the Smiths to Oasis, he has captured the look, the feel, the attitude of the two cities and their maverick musicians. During a 25-year association with the NME, including 10 years as Chief Photographer, Cummins has photographed several generations of the musical great and the good. As a new monograph of his photography, Manchester: Looking For the Light Through the Pouring Rain, is published, Salford Film Festival is thrilled to be presenting a selection of Cummins’ film and moving image work.
On his first day as a courier for Morgan’s Organs, purveyors of body parts, young Billy finds himself playing Cupid in a morbid love triangle…
18 year old Rene returns to West London in search of an old flame. But why is there a price on his head?
