News from FACT and Metal
Metal have announced the launch of Shift, a sustainability network for cultural organisations, and the Picturehouse Cinema at FACT reopened on 19th May.
Film
Dead Pigeon Gallery Presents – David Sinclair – Dockers Exhibition
Dead Pigeon Gallery presents Dockers – The ‘95 to ‘98 Liverpool Lockout, a documentary photography exhibition by Dave Sinclair of the Liverpool dockers strike.
Film showing: Guerrero
There is a showing of the documentary film directed by Ludovic Bonleux, Guerrero, which follows three activists and organizers in the federal state of Guerrero in Mexico, on Thursday 12th March at the Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street.
Making quality films with your smartphone
A new course on how to make quality films with your smartphone starts on Wednesday 3rd July at 10am.
Big Adventure Cinema at the Fabric District Arts Festival
Big Adventure Cinema have a selection of films, an exhibition and a cinema history walking tour at the Fabric District Arts Festival which takes place from Friday 7th – Sun 9th June.
Film Futures – First Take’s FREE filmmaking course for unemployed people
If you have you ever thought of a career in film or television there is FREE filmmaking training for Liverpool based unemployed people starting in September 2018.
Doc’n Roll Film Festival 2018
The UK’s Music Documentary Festival returns in 2018 for its third Liverpool edition with an extended programme of eight premiere films running from 28th March to 1st April.
Big Adventure Cinema’s Launch at 81 Renshaw Street!
Natalie Romero went to the launch of Big Adventure Cinema who describe themselves as “a group of film fans on a journey to build a new community cinema for all Liverpudlians”.
Interview With Merseyside Filmmaker Harry Sherriff
Richard Lewis chats with Merseyside born filmmaker Harry Sherriff about his upcoming webseries Early Days, breaking into the film industry and the influences on his work.
David Jacques: Oil is the Devil’s Excrement
The Liverpool premiere of a new animated short film by David Jacques, Oil is the Devil’s Excrement, takes place on 21st June at the Bluecoat.
Free showings of I Daniel Blake
Liverpool Against the Cuts have organised two free showings of I Daniel Blake at The Valley Theatre in Netherley on Saturday 13th May.
The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion presents “13th”
Ava DuVernay’s thought-provoking documentary which analyses the criminalisation of African Americans and the U.S prison boom, showing on Wednesday 22nd March at the John Foster Building.
Liverpool Radical Film Festival 2016
The Liverpool Radical Film Festival 2016 takes place from Friday 25th – Sunday 27th November with some explosive and never before seen films from the UK and across the world.
Indigenous Film & Activism: Double-Bill Screening Event
Join the Liverpool Radical Film Festival and AKI for an evening of film that explores indigenous issues at Liverpool Small Cinema on Friday 14th October.
‘Cuba es mi marca’ – Cuban Mini-Film Festival
Film critic and poet Fernando Leon Jacomino and photographer Sonia Amalguer are visiting Britain from Cuba and will be at the Casa on Hope Street where they will show three exceptional films from Cuba as well as a photographic exhibition of images of the land and its people.
Celebrating Women’s Resistance Film Festival
The Celebrating Women’s Resistance Film Festival takes place all day on 25th June at The Caledonia Pub showing films of resistance from four continents.
90th Anniversary of the General Strike Event at the Plaza Cinema
In partnership with NW UNISON the Plaza are to host a special FREE screening of ‘The Happy Lands’ (12) on Tues. 17th May at 7.30pm to mark the 90th anniversary of the General Strike.
Small but perfectly formed
Steve Moss celebrates the arrival of Liverpool’s Small Cinema.
Premiere of horror-comedy short Nightmare In Beige
Frightwig Productions presents the first screening of Liverpool shot horror-comedy short Nightmare In Beige at The Casa on Tuesday May 10th 2016.
First ever Liverpool Kurdish Film Festival
First ever Liverpool Kurdish Film Festival takes place on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd November at the Pagoda Arts Centre.
Liverpool Radical Film Festival 2015
The Liverpool Radical Film Festival is on from Oct 22nd to 25th and they will be screening a range of powerful films covering such issues as the deaths of black people in police custody, abuses against the Kurdish population in Turkey and the most relevant British band of today Sleaford Mods.