A short film scripted by and starring marginalised young people from Salford has won the Salford Film Festival Award, beating off competition from professional film makers from all over the North West.Cloud 8.5, a bizarre but brilliant drama featuring God, the Devil and inmates in a holy jail, was the first film ever made by the group of socially excluded 16-18 year olds who had never been near a movie camera before. The film was co-produced by RipRoar Productions and Creative Industries In Salf...

3rd Salford Film Festival 11th-13th November 2005The 3rd Salford Film Festival returns this November, guest curated by the Commonwealth Film Association. The festival is a three-day celebration of Salford’s movie heritage and the flourishing new wave of filmmakers in the city. The programme will include homegrown classics, contemporary favourites, premieres and the ever popular Filmonik Kabaret. The festival is very much a people’s event and attracted over 4,600 visitors last year.The Salfor...

This year’s Salford Film Festival – 11th, 12th and 13th November – is getting more salacious than ever before with its first ever star studded world premiere feature film…plus an epic revolutionary movie that’s been banned from Salford for 75 years…plus a Mike Leigh retrospective…plus the very best of Salford’s community-driven cinematic surge…and events ranging from speed dating with a cinematic difference to the chance to make a mini movie masterpiece…Almost 40 films packed...

Salford’s legendary sons are supporting the second Salford Film Festival which runs 10th,11th and 12th November 2004. The Salford Arts and Sports Trust - of which Albert Finney is President and Harold Riley Chairman - has this year donated a grant towards the `people’s’ event which gives free admission for the community to all films and workshops. Letters of support have also been received from Sir Ben Kingsley, Robert Powell and Christopher Eccleston.Last year the Salford Film Festival dr...

The first ever Salford Film Festival drew to a close with crowds flocking to see the premiere of Oscar-tipped Salford short, Talking With Angels. Two screenings had to be hastily arranged at the 500 seat theatre at Red Cinema, in Salford Quays, as the 15 minute feature, starring 12 year old Stephen Buckley and a host of residents from the city's Langworthy Estate, proved incredibly popular. At the premiere - a highlight of the Salford Film Festival - messages of support were read out from an ar...