🎥 Take a look at our free and 'pay as you feel' events at Blackpool Film Festival this weekend ✨
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to experience these fantastic new films at our festival.
Friday 1 November
Saturday 2 November
Short Film Competition – Screening & Awards
Join us in celebrating the work of new and established filmmakers from across the globe.
This year’s Blackpool Film Festival Short Film Competition saw over 120 submissions from across the globe, including films from Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia, North Macedonia, Iran and Canada, as well as the UK and many more countries.
Young Filmmakers Competition – Screening & Awards
Join us in celebrating the work of fantastic young filmmakers from across the globe.
Open internationally to filmmakers under the age of 25, this year’s Blackpool Film Festival Young Filmmakers Competition was inundated with an abundance of fantastic entries from all over the world.
Pier to Peer: A Seaside Sisterhood – Documentary Screening and Q&A
Join us for the premiere of this short documentary, followed by a Q&A discussion with the cast and filmmakers.
A group of passionate young women band together to make change in their local community and hometown of Blackpool. With personal archives collected over one summer, to workshops and many conversations, Pier to Peer is a short film about youth, activism and the friendships created along the way – and all rooted in a complicated love letter to the places we call home.
STIM CINEMA: The Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood
Stimming is the practice of physical repetition as a way of taking sensory pleasure in recurrence, or of expressing and alleviating anxiety, and is a common trait of autistic experience.
Art exhibition: Kris Canavan – In The Shadow Of…​
You are cordially invited to In The Shadow Of… an exhibition by performance artist Kris Canavan. Commissioned by Abingdon Studios; supported by Aunty Social and Blackpool Film Festival.
This exhibition explores the body as both site and subject through film archive, photography, and mixed media, drawing on Canavan’s visceral performance work and its self-expressive, experimental and profound social and political implications.
A Hard Night’s Day – Heritage Talk
Want to know what happened behind the big screens?
Join Collections Manager Caroline Hall as she screens footage from her father’s time working in cinema for the very first time.
This beautiful and nostalgic short film will be followed by a Q&A.
FREE ENTRY.
No need to book.
