Mancattan

 

Overwhelmed by relationship troubles, career decisions, and the general obligation to “grow up”, Mancunian filmmakers Col and Phil set off to New York to avoid their problems at home and fulfil their dream of making a documentary about their Manhattan-based hero Woody Allen. Lost in the Big Apple, a long way from home, and unable to get a decent cup of tea anywhere, will they finally come to realise where their priorities truly lie? Shot entirely in their own time, and on their own terms with no money to speak of, Mancattan is a sterling example of the North West’s New Underground of uncompromising micro-budget filmmaking.

 

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