filmmaking

With less than a week to go until the first Winter Gardens Film Festival, altblackpool takes a look at the hot tickets at this new weekend event. The Winter Gardens Film Festival is a new event that brings the best of modern and classic black and white film to the spectacular historical setting of the Blackpool Winter Gardens. The main screenings will take place in the magnificent Opera House, which was opened by Jessie Matthews and Sonny Hale in 1939 as one of the most luxurious and sophisticated combination theatres and super cinemas of the pre-war period. There will also be screenings…