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28 Mar

Winter Gardens Film Festival Blackpool – Picture Gallery

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsFilm, Visual Arts & ExhibitionsFilm, film festival, filmmaking

Last weekend we "shimmied" along to The beautiful Winter Gardens in Blackpool to experience a whole programme of fantastic films in the unconquerable venue. Check out a small selection of images from an amazing evening.

14 Mar

Fylde Film Festival 2018

Laura Green0 CommentsFilm, Theatre, Dance & PerformanceBlott Studio Gallery, Film, film festival, Fylde Film Festival, Houndshill Shopping Centre, Viva Blackpool, Viva Vegas Diner

Fylde Film Festival (formerly Fylde Film Showcase) is proud to be returning for its second year! It brings with it the opportunity for independent regional, national and international filmmakers to have their work showcased in pop-up events at venues across Blackpool town centre, culminating in an awards ceremony at the prestigious ‘Viva Blackpool’. Independent filmmakers are encouraged to submit their short films for consideration via ‘FilmFreeWay’ before 13th April 2018. The festival aims to showcase as many films as possible via the showcase events, awards evening event and associated online sites. The organisers strongly advocate student films; however, submission is…

11 Mar

Winter Gardens Film Festival 2018

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilm, Theatre, Dance & PerformanceBlackpool, cinema, Film, film festival, Winter Gardens

Whether it’s Daniel Day-Lewis waltzing away in the Ballroom or Samuel L. Jackson playing an evil super villain in the Tower Circus, Blackpool has long been familiar to cinema fans across the globe. Next weekend, this proud legacy is being celebrated with the annual Winter Gardens film festival. The curtain will lift on this three-day event with a showing of Some Like It Hot, the iconic Marilyn Monroe blockbuster. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as jazz musicians who are forced to dress in drag to escape Mafia gangsters – what a great choice for a town famous for its…

09 Dec

Oxide Ghosts: Brass Eye comes to Blackpool

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsFilmBlackpool, Comedy, Film, library, Satire

Community cinema Pop-up Picturehouse is offering a very different kind of Christmas special this year. 2017 is the 20th anniversary of controversial Channel 4 show Brass Eye; a unique style of satire made up of television news parodies. As fans of the show, Pop-up Picturehouse are pleased to host a celebratory screening of Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes including a Q&A with director Michael Cumming, which has been selling out in independent cinemas across the UK. Made from hundreds of hours of unseen material from his personal archive, director Michael Cumming's film shares insights into the process of making the legendary TV series Brass Eye. Michael…

11 Jul

Film the House – MPs promote young British film makers

David Simper0 CommentsFilm, Local NewsFilm, film festival, filmmaking

Sponsored by MPs Nigel Adams and Kevin Barron and Lord Tim Clement-Jones, this is an initiative designed to further promote the UK's deep rooted film culture and is a fine opportunity for young film makers to raise their profile. Perhaps responding to an often expressed opinion that parliamentarians are privileged and out of touch, Film the House is also pitched as a route for them to engage with their local communities, particularly the young and creative. In these days of social media and file sharing, it's become increasingly difficult to keep a hold on your intellectual property. It was hard…

02 Mar

Love/Hate: Brad James Screens His Latest Film

Lisa Bower0 CommentsFilmFilm, film festival, filmmaking

A Fylde coast film producer and director is set to host a screening of his latest film at the wonderful Regent Cinema. LOVE/HATE is a Modern Romance, trading the fairytales of female protagonists falling in love with their Prince Charming, for a true portrayal of a modern day relationship with love, hate, infidelity, physical harm. It will be shown at the cinema on Sunday and will be free of charge to attendees. The film explores a young couple finding them themselves falling madly in love in the romantic seclusion of an empty apartment. However, as the lovers begin to lose their…

24 Feb

Grundy Film Club Returns

Stephen Dunstan0 CommentsFilm, Local News, Visual Arts & ExhibitionsFilm, film festival, filmmaking

There’s been a lot going on at The Grundy recently, including the acclaimed Neon exhibition and now the ever-popular show of local residents’ work. What some altBlackpool readers may have missed is the return of the film club, supported by the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The next instalment is this coming Monday and features the work of Basim Magdy. The series got underway on 13 February with three short films by award winning cinematographer Ben Rivers. Like all Grundy film events this was compered by artist and filmmaker Chris Paul Daniels. Chris always gives enthusiastic and extremely knowledgeable introductions at…

15 Feb

Review: Winter Gardens Film Festival

David Simper0 CommentsFilmFilm, film festival, filmmaking

The Opera House looked magnificent with the big screen set up for this showing. All credit is due to the people who had put all this together. These were films that I’d heard of and wanted to see for a long time, but they were unlikely to pop up on TV or at any multiplex. Nowadays it must be hard to convince people that films once had no sound, or even that they had to be shot in black and white, rather than by choice. Some names from the era live on, in this case Lon Chaney, here as Erik,…

14 Feb

How To Starve an Artist – The Film

Jill Reidy0 CommentsFilm, Literature & Spoken Wordartist, crowdfunding, Film, how to starve an artist, performance, poet, poetry, starve

A few months ago I was asked to shoot a local poetry session, at which, I was told, the renowned Canadian poet, Rose Condo would be performing. I've always loved poetry so, although I wasn't familiar with Rose at that point, I was happy to record the event. When Rose took the floor I was instantly mesmerised. Not only was she charismatic but the performance had a combination of warmth, intimacy and humour, the like of which I hadn't seen before. As Rose started to slice baguettes, spreading them with butter and hummus, and handing them round to the audience she began performing…

02 Feb

Interview: Catherine Mugonyi Director of the Winter Gardens Film Festival

Clancy1 CommentFilm, HeritageAunty Social, Black and White Film, Blackpool, Film, film festival, filmmaking, Winter Gardens Film Festival

altB's Clancy Mason caught up with Winter Gardens Film Festival Director, Catherine Mugonyi to find out more about what is happening this weekend: CMa: Tell us a little bit about your background? How did you get to the point where you are now directing a film festival? CMu: I've run a Blackpool-based neighbourhood cinema group called Pop-up Picturehouse for the last 5 years and it's been a fascinating journey. I found out that there are plenty of people living locally who enjoy independent and classic film yet struggle to find places to see it outside of their homes. The group…