Previews & Premieres

Salford Film Festival is not content to simply dwell in the past. We celebrate our city’s cinema history, both as a reminder of what we are able to achieve and as an inspiration to present and future filmmakers. The North West has always been a centre of vibrant creativity, invention, and innovation, as well as of fierce pride and independence - and we wish to promote this fact as loudly as possible. This year, we can boast no fewer than seven feature film premieres, in addition to short films premiering in the various CAUGHT SHORT Programmes.

 

There’s hard-hitting and redemptive social drama in the uplifting A BOY CALLED DAD, subtle semi-romance in the touching DRAWN, and a desperate manhunt across an inhospitable landscape in the epic KANDAHAR BREAK. Our NORTH WEST UNDERGROUND Strand will be hosting a further four premieres. There’s a wry, yet heartfelt plea for the power and social importance of live music in A DROP OF THE PURE, two Manchester filmmakers bite more off more than they can chew of the Big Apple in MANCATTAN, there’s mystery and murder among the Parking Attendants of Salford in the surreal and darkly comic CAR PARK, and there’s a whole array of dubious goings on in the raunchy and rambunctious sex comedy ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES.

 

Something to appeal to all tastes. And this is your first chance to see any of it!
 

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