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The North Wests regional moving image arts funding body.
National body aimed at the development of a sustainable British film industry. Provides funding, via the regional bodies such as North West Vision, for medium budget shorts through the Digital Shorts scheme. Public funded body, with a cultural remit for the promotion of film as an art form. Publishers of "Sight and Sound" magazine. Government funded body responsible for the global promotion of British culture.
Website, e-mailing list, meetings, screenings and events organsied by Northern film-makers for Northern film-makers. Website and e-mailing lists categorised for film-makers, scriptwriters, musicians, actors and animators.
Greater Manchester based University with an Internationla Media Centre. Respected centre of excellence for screenwriting training, film-making and performance art. Provides a Part-time MA in Screenwriting. London based organisation for script reporting and training of writers. London based organisation meeting regularly for script readings with actors playing parts in scripts for both of shorts and features. Currently in production on the short film "No Deposit, No Return" written by Manchester-based writer John Edwards
Great resource for produced and unproduced scripts to read and study.
Online version of the trade magazine for British film industry. Europe focused.
Need Brads or Acco fastners, Final Draft 6, Chris Volgler's book "The Writers Journey"? This is a UK based online and shop store for all your script needs. Carries many items that are rarely available in the UK if you want to send scripts to the States.
The BBC's online resource for writers. Provides information on how to approach the BBC with scripts and templates for the various writing formats for use with MS Word. Good resource for information and news about screenwriting. An organisation with a monthly e-mail, listing all script writing courses and competitions. Writers Guild of Great Britain The professional union body for writers in the UK. Monthly magazine for professional and aspiring scriptwriters. UK based, but with an international market perspective.
Manchester Art house cinema on Oxford Road, catering to eclectic and European tastes. Nice bar, good food and atmosphere. An ideal hangout for film-makers. Picturehouse at FACT is a central component of the new FACT Centre, a £10 million landmark building which comprises three cinemas, a ‘micro-cinema’, two galleries, café and bar. Picturehouse at FACT’s state-of-the-art cinemas give audiences the chance to enjoy an unprecedented variety of films and film-related events in the city's most impressive and technically well-equipped venue, boasting stadium seating, THX standard sound and 70mm and digital projection. Salford Univesity based local TV station broadcasting programmes to the Central Manchester area. Website of the "Reel North" strand on Channel M, showcasing regional talent, information and masterclass items on film-making in and around Manchester.
Commonwealth International Film Festival The Commonwealth Film Festival exists to celebrate Commonwealth cinema in all its diversity and to showcase the excellence and breadth of vision of its filmmakers. Its aims are to develop an audience for innovative works which enrich the language of world cinema and to bring the best contemporary Commonwealth films to the UK. The 2nd Commonwealth Film Festival will take place in Manchester June 6th - 15th 2003. The 10-day showcase will feature around 200 new features, shorts and documentaries from many of the 72 nations of the Commonwealth. Kino evolved from the Kino cult film club set up in 1993 as a touring cult film festival taking place over 6 months of the year. Over the first three years Kino showed cult and classic films at over 30 non-traditional cinematic venues such as: galleriaes, clubs, bars, function rooms, community centres, church halls, out door screenings and even in the rusting hold of an ex-Norwegian fishing trawler - to become known as the world famous touring theatre ship from Salford, "Walk the Plank".
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