A Drop of The Pure

 

Jimmy has had enough of chasing pop success in London, and returns home to Manchester to set up a folk night above a pub. He wants to get his soul back - and his girlfriend Eilish. But his old bandmate Callum is in town - maybe to steal his girl, maybe to steal his songs. The regulars, who usually fill the night have abandoned him, to watch the footie at the pub down the road, and there’s a Man From The Brewery coming to decide the pub’s future. Jimmy may end up as “Anonymous” as the ripped-off and forgotten songwriters whose music he so loves…

 

Screening as part of our NORTH WEST UNDERGROUND strand.

STARRING…THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD

Born in 2003 the Salford Film Festival paid special attention to the huge variety that Salford communities are famous for, and in encouraging their involvement in film-making both on screen and behind the camera, paved the way for five more seriously succ

STEVE BALSHAW INTERVIEW

My primary role is to select, source and secure the films, and to build these into a programme of screenings and related events that will hopefully attract an audience - so I deal with filmmakers and producers, and often with the various screening venues,

INNOVATE, DON’T IMITATE!

Manchester prides itself on being “The City of Innovation”. Benjamin Disraeli famously stated that “What Manchester does today, the rest of the world will do tomorrow

THE ORSON WELLES OF SALFORD

He was Salford's Welles and King of Manchester Exploitation movies. He was a pioneer of independent filmmaking in the region. And now there's a book. You should own it.

UNDERSTANDING THE PAST

In our past is our future. Understand one, and you can better visualise the other. This selection of films from the North West Film Archive offers a glimpse of the world that was, here in Salford - some of it now lost forever, some of it simply altered be