5th Salford Film Festival
November 15th – 23rd 2008
Get out your diaries and mark the dates above down in red. You’re going to be very busy. Salford Film Festival will be returning, bigger and better than ever, in November 2008 for nine – yes, NINE – intensive days of screenings, seminars, workshops, and special events.
Since its inception in 2003, Salford has been a festival with a strong regional voice, rooted deep in the local community. Offering a heady mix of British `kitchen sink’ classics, international cinema with a local connection, and premieres of new work filmed in and around the region, the Festival is dedicated to promoting and raising the profile of Salford as an area of creative excellence in filmmaking, and as a breeding-ground for some of the world’s great talent, past, present and to come. Celebrating the city's cinematic history and thriving contemporary talent, it’s a festival for the people of Salford, by the people of Salford, starring the people of Salford.
But we’re a hospitable people. We don’t want to keep things all for ourselves, so we’re inviting the rest of the world to join us. The focus may be regional, but the view is widescreen. There’ll be something for everyone to enjoy, from local community films to cutting-edge new shorts; from timeless classics and rarely-screened cult features to international premieres.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
The festival is seeking new short films and features produced within the region, with a strong Salford connection (and failing that a Greater Manchester focus) to form part of our new talent showcase. We believe filmmaking should be accessible to all, so we are operating an entirely open submission policy, extending our call to professionals and amateurs alike.
Submissions should be sent on DVD to:
Steve Balshaw, Festival Programme Manager,
Salford Film Festival, International Media Centre, Adelphi House, The Crescent, Salford M3 6EN
+44(0)161 834 3537
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Submission forms may be downloaded HERE. There is no submission fee.
Deadline is Friday August 15th, though we will continue to accept short films until September 5th. Any films accepted after this date will be entirely at the Festival Programme Manager's discretion.
No Longer The Site of Salford's New Cinema! Field of Films Postponed!
Plans to transform Salford's historic Peel Park into a temporary cinema have been put on hold due to the effects of the recent bad weather. For more information click HERE.
And now a word from our sponsor...
Tell us what you think!
It is important to us to know who comes to our festival, and what they think about our programmes and events. Tell us your experience of this year's festival and you could win a selection of the films we are screening on DVD. Simply download the questionnaire HERE, complete and send to our freepost address:
Freepost RLUE-CELG-RHST, Salford City Council Tourism Marketing Unity House Salford Civic Centre Chorley Road Swinton Salford M27 5FJ.
A winner will be chosen in early 2008 from all the responses we receive.