Car Park

 

Join legendary documentary filmmaker Randy Henry, to discover the secret world of a Salford Car Park. Here, three misfits inhabit their own little worlds: Steve dreams of a distant, unobtainable future, managing a multi-storey carpark in the Arndale; SAS tries to recapture the certainties of a lost past, and Frank simply pretends he isn’t there at all. But why do paying customers keep disappearing? Why do they never have the same manager two weeks running? Will Frank ever get to eat his cheese and pickle sandwich in peace? At the heart of it all is a secret so terrible, so life-threatening that our unlikely heroes may never have to park a car again, as long as they live. Because in Salford, parking your car is murder…

 

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