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Connect & Collaborate: Blackpool Filmmaker Social

Connect & Collaborate: Blackpool Filmmaker Social

Following the popularity of their previous networking event, Blackpool Film Festival is hosting another exciting filmmaker mixer, this time at the Rhythm & Brew Room. Networking is a vital element in building a successful career in independent filmmaking. Whether it’s forging new connections, learning from industry professionals or assembling a team of creatives to bring a project to life, attending industry events offers invaluable opportunities to develop a filmmakers career and unlock new career possibilities. However, breaking into these circles can often feel like a challenge. While film festivals and networking events are growing in number across the UK, they…
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Short Film: Queers in Blackpool

Short Film: Queers in Blackpool

Blackpool’s newest multi-artform festival, Queer Amusements, lit up the North-West from April to September in 2024. To mark its culmination, a new short film from James Barnett (best known for his viral videos of parents Michael and Teresa on his channel @makemeaoffer) shines a light on the people who were involved, the town it took place in, and what happens next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsadGEc4HbA&list=TLGGgNrWpRLYaJoxOTAxMjAyNQ&t=30s Drawing on interviews with participating artists and collaborators, performance footage, photography and playfully camp glances at Blackpool’s long histories of entertaining, Queers in Blackpool acts as a snapshot of a festival which looks to bring new art and…
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Preview: Blackpool Film Festival – Scarred for Life

Preview: Blackpool Film Festival – Scarred for Life

An evening that celebrates the terrifying popular culture of the 1970s and 1980s comes to Blackpool Film Festival at The Backlot Cinema on Sunday 3rd November at 7pm. Scarred For Life sees writers Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence taking to the stage to discuss the TV, films, music, comics, books, adverts – and even sweets – that blighted their childhoods. So be prepared for a no-holds-barred examination of Worzel Gummidge, Doctor Who, Noseybonk, the Usborne Book of Ghosts, Horror Top Trumps, and the bovver boy skinheads from the 1980s Weetabix adverts! It's an evening inspired by their three hit books.…
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Preview: Blackpool Film Festival

Preview: Blackpool Film Festival

Capturing young and local talent, premiering leading ladies, and showcasing Blackpool’s heritage, art and queer culture, Blackpool Film Festival announces its full programme for 2024. Leading ladies are called to the front this autumn with a series of femme-focussed films, events and workshops as a major strand of Blackpool Film Festival's 2024 programme. Warming up to the main weekend of events, the festival kicks off quite literally at 2.30pm at Blackpool Sixth Form College on Thursday 24th October. Sugar, Spice and Getting in Fights is a stunt workshop for women and non binary people. Led by an experienced stunt performer,…
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Blackpool Film Festival evolves for 2024

Blackpool Film Festival evolves for 2024

An established film festival in Blackpool has had a name change. Blackpool Film Festival sets out its plans to bring diverse cinema to wider audiences and provide opportunities for locals with ambitions to work in film exhibition. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the former Winter Gardens Film Festival has been renamed Blackpool Film Festival (BFF) to reflect its ambitions to become a town-wide celebration of independent and diverse cinema. It is already offering a rare career opportunity while a preview weekend on 27th-28th April will feature inaugural events championing young and queer filmmakers. Founded in 2014, the Winter Gardens Film…
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Boldly exploring futuristic and heritage film at the Winter Gardens Film Festival this February

Boldly exploring futuristic and heritage film at the Winter Gardens Film Festival this February

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool's very own film festival is back, having announced a programme of screenings, talks and workshops full of futuristic film and vintage delights. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Following last year's comeback event, The Winter Gardens Film Festival returns to the iconic venue from the 11th to 12th February 2023 and will include its usual variety of classic and contemporary film. Main screenings will take place in the wonderful Opera House at the Winter Gardens. Built in 1939 as a cine-variety theatre, combining a super cinema with a world class stage for theatrical performance, the venue's capacity of just under 3000 makes it the…
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Preview: Winter Gardens Film Festival 2022

Preview: Winter Gardens Film Festival 2022

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This week the Winter Gardens and other venues across Blackpool welcome back the annual Winter Gardens Film Festival – after an unexpected two-year hiatus. Running from Wednesday to Sunday (9-13 March) the 2022 programme features screenings, talks, discussions and workshops for movie fans and film-makers and this year it’s bringing silent film back to historic Opera House.  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Following a screening of Mary Poppins Returns for schools on Wednesday morning, the North West Film Archive will show Blackpool on Film in the afternoon – a fascinating dip into the archive’s collection featuring the seaside town. Wednesday night features a…
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Disorder – Blackpool Skate Film release

Disorder – Blackpool Skate Film release

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool Social Club bangs the drum for skateboarding and its close relationship to creativity. With Star Wars being filmed in Cleveleys and the recent Netflix nod on The Comedy Carpet we had a look at Blackpool filmmaker Jake Powell and The ATB collective latest offering: Disorder. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]While skateboarding might often get a bad rep, seen as anti-social and rebellious. Blackpool Social Club has been exploring how Blackpool and alternative creative approaches like skateboarding can benefit a traditional tourist town like Blackpool. With the town often compared to a film set, it is no surprise that Tim Burton has made…
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New Season At Fylde Film Society

New Season At Fylde Film Society

Want to see some arthouse films among like-minded people.  If you do then Fylde Film Society could be for you and their new season starts tonight (Monday) at The Island Cinema, St Annes. Season 71 kicks off at 8.15pm this evening with the Chilean Drama ‘A Fantastic Woman'. Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.  A Fantastic Woman was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It was  the Chilean entry…
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What to do when you are Left Behind

What to do when you are Left Behind

Not long ago Blackpool had a Financial Times article written about it. It caused quite a kerfuffle on social media with many Blackpool residents leaping to Blackpool's defence, with conflicting discussions arising across Facebook and Twitter.  A more realistic depiction of Blackpool was presented through facts and figures and documented opinions - but I question how labels and assumptions effect people and how communities attach themselves to these kind of documents. I always wanted to move away as a teen and jumped at the chance when I hopped off to University. It was only then that I really appreciated Blackpool. It amazes…
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