The Fifth Salford Film Festival
November 15th – 23rd 2008
Yes, we’ve been doing this for five years now: celebrating the city's cinematic history and thriving contemporary talent in a festival for the people of Salford, by the people of Salford, starring the people of Salford. But don’t ever call us parochial. The focus may be local, but the view is widescreen. There’s something for everyone to enjoy, from local community films and cutting-edge new shorts, to international premieres and difficult to see cult classics.
Oh, and it’s virtually all FREE!
TICKETS
Tickets for ALL events may be booked through Quay Tickets: 0870 428 0785
Looking for somewhere to go after the screenings? Why not take advantage of this EXCLUSIVE OFFER from Grosvenor Casinos.
Festival Programme Manager Steve Balshaw was recently interviewed by Littlestar as part of a series of podcasts for the Northern Film Network on filmmkers and filmmaking in the North West. You can download the interview HERE.
FESTIVAL NEWS UPDATES!
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL, WE HAVE HAD TO ABANDON OUR PLANS TO SCREEN CHARLIE BUBBLES AT THE FESTIVAL. MORE INFORMATION HERE.
THE BLANK MEDIA EVENT "LOCATION", ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR ISLINGTON MILL ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21ST FROM 7PM WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT SALFORD ARTS THEATRE ON THE SAME DATE, BUT STARTING FROM 8PM.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
SPECIAL CALL FOR SUPER 8
Salford Film Festival’s Call for Submissions is over for this year. Mostly.
HOWEVER, if you are working on Super 8, we’d be interested to hear from you. Here at SFF, we’re really excited by the revival of interest in this classic medium – so much so that we’ve teamed up with the good folks at onsuper8.org to bring a special day of Super 8 related activities to this year's festival.
Saturday 22nd November will be a chance to explore "Super 8 in a Digital World". An afternoon Super 8 workshop will be followed by an evening screening of some of the best Super 8 films around. We'll be firming up on details on the workshop and screening over the coming weeks, but if you’d like to be a part of the screening, we'd love to hear from you. We're making a very special call for submissions for the evening screening - inviting filmmakers the world over working on Super 8mm film to send us their work, to be considered for a showcase of the very best of what's currently being created on the format.
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
Email 1 Email 2
Submission forms may be downloaded HERE. There is no submission fee.
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.