Fancy being the next Michelle Yeoh?
Limber up for our BFI Art of Action interactive stunt workshops led by an experienced stunt performer, KA-POW!
Ever wondered how filmmakers make their fights just so realistic? Or how stunt people manage to get up time and time again after taking brutal looking falls?
Then this is the workshop for you.
Fancy being the next Michelle Yeoh?
Limber up for our BFI Art of Action interactive stunt workshops led by an experienced stunt performer, KA-POW!
Ever wondered how filmmakers make their fights just so realistic? Or how stunt people manage to get up time and time again after taking brutal looking falls?
Then this is the workshop for you.
Opening the 2024 Blackpool Film Festival in style, join us for this dazzling new 4K restoration of Charles Vidor’s film noir classic, Gilda.
Set amongst a backdrop of smoky casinos in post-war Buenos Aries, follow charming gambler Johnny as he becomes entangled with the mystifying Gilda, a stunning nightclub singer and the estranged wife of his ruthless boss, Ballin Mundson. As tensions rise, Johnny’s obsession with Gilda deepens, revealing her mysterious past.
Starring the radiant Rita Hayworth in her most iconic role, Gilda captures the intense unfolding of this tumultuous love triangle, exploring themes of love, jealousy and betrayal through its classic film noir style.
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.
Join us at our in person Talent Mixer at Blackpool Film Festival this year.
We’re excited to host Blackpool’s first BFI Network in-person talent mixer. This informal, conversational meet-up will be a great opportunity for creatives to connect with the growing community of local Film and TV industry folk, share stories and meet future collaborators.
Opening the 2024 Blackpool Film Festival in style, join us for this dazzling new 4K restoration of Charles Vidor’s film noir classic, Gilda.
Set amongst a backdrop of smoky casinos in post-war Buenos Aries, follow charming gambler Johnny as he becomes entangled with the mystifying Gilda, a stunning nightclub singer and the estranged wife of his ruthless boss, Ballin Mundson. As tensions rise, Johnny’s obsession with Gilda deepens, revealing her mysterious past.
Starring the radiant Rita Hayworth in her most iconic role, Gilda captures the intense unfolding of this tumultuous love triangle, exploring themes of love, jealousy and betrayal through its classic film noir style.
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.
Join us at our in person Talent Mixer at Blackpool Film Festival this year.
We’re excited to host Blackpool’s first BFI Network in-person talent mixer. This informal, conversational meet-up will be a great opportunity for creatives to connect with the growing community of local Film and TV industry folk, share stories and meet future collaborators.
Join us for a morning of mischief and magic with a family-friendly screening of The Witches (1990), followed by a creepy craft session!
While on holiday at the seaside with his grandma, nine-year-old Luke learns all about witches; their folklore, their secrets, and how to spot them. When Luke realises his hotel is also hosting a coven of witches, he discovers their evil plan – to transform all the world’s children into mice! Luke and his grandma must team up against the terrifying Grand High Witch, take down the coven’s wicked plan, and save the children of the world.
Do you love dolls? Would you like to see them come alive in their very own movie?
Then join @vintagebarbieclare for a fun and easy beginners stop-motion animation workshop!
Come and learn how to animate dolls and miniatures and leave with your very own mini movie masterpiece.
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.
Dig out that sketchbook and dust off those crochet hooks as we invite you to join us on this Halloween weekend for a craft-a-long screening of cult teen horror classic The Craft.
After transferring to a new high school, new girl Sarah befriends a group of three wannabe witches, a group of misfits who happen to be seeking a fourth member to complete their coven.
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.
Strap on those cha cha heels for an evening of depraved decadence introduced by special guest, drag queen Titty Kaka.
BFF x Queer Amusements present a 50th anniversary screening of John Waters’ 1974 sleazy smash hit Female Trouble.
Join us for a morning of mischief and magic with a family-friendly screening of The Witches (1990), followed by a creepy craft session!
While on holiday at the seaside with his grandma, nine-year-old Luke learns all about witches; their folklore, their secrets, and how to spot them. When Luke realises his hotel is also hosting a coven of witches, he discovers their evil plan – to transform all the world’s children into mice! Luke and his grandma must team up against the terrifying Grand High Witch, take down the coven’s wicked plan, and save the children of the world.
Do you love dolls? Would you like to see them come alive in their very own movie?
Then join @vintagebarbieclare for a fun and easy beginners stop-motion animation workshop!
Come and learn how to animate dolls and miniatures and leave with your very own mini movie masterpiece.
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.
Dig out that sketchbook and dust off those crochet hooks as we invite you to join us on this Halloween weekend for a craft-a-long screening of cult teen horror classic The Craft.
After transferring to a new high school, new girl Sarah befriends a group of three wannabe witches, a group of misfits who happen to be seeking a fourth member to complete their coven.
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.
Strap on those cha cha heels for an evening of depraved decadence introduced by special guest, drag queen Titty Kaka.
BFF x Queer Amusements present a 50th anniversary screening of John Waters’ 1974 sleazy smash hit Female Trouble.
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.
As part of the BFI Art of Action season, Blackpool Film Festival is excited to present a fun-filled night of thrills and spills.
Celebrate the women of action cinema with a screening of action-packed satirical comedy, Polite Society.
Follow martial artist-in-training, Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) in this joyous mashup of familial affection and roundhouse kicks as she battles to save her sister from her looming marriage.
Get ready for an exhilarating journey filled with daring heists, crafty disguises and epic fight sequences, as we see Ria put her stunt training to the test.
Lights, camera, action!
Discover the history of Blackpool’s cinemas during the golden era of the big screen. Did you know that Blackpool was once home to twenty operating cinemas?
This engaging talk takes a look back at some of Blackpool’s iconic cinema venues.
Was your childhood traumatised by Worzel Gummidge, Doctor Who and Day of the Triffids?
The children who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s were placed in the unenviable position of being scared by virtually everything. In this show, Liverpool writers Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence – the men behind the superb Scarred For Life books – will be giving a hilarious talk about the TV, films, music, comics, board games, books, adverts and crisps (no, really) that blighted all of our childhoods. All accompanied by a slide show of some of their most potent childhood fears!
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.
As part of the BFI Art of Action season, Blackpool Film Festival is excited to present a fun-filled night of thrills and spills.
Celebrate the women of action cinema with a screening of action-packed satirical comedy, Polite Society.
Follow martial artist-in-training, Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) in this joyous mashup of familial affection and roundhouse kicks as she battles to save her sister from her looming marriage.
Get ready for an exhilarating journey filled with daring heists, crafty disguises and epic fight sequences, as we see Ria put her stunt training to the test.
Lights, camera, action!
Discover the history of Blackpool’s cinemas during the golden era of the big screen. Did you know that Blackpool was once home to twenty operating cinemas?
This engaging talk takes a look back at some of Blackpool’s iconic cinema venues.
Was your childhood traumatised by Worzel Gummidge, Doctor Who and Day of the Triffids?
The children who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s were placed in the unenviable position of being scared by virtually everything. In this show, Liverpool writers Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence – the men behind the superb Scarred For Life books – will be giving a hilarious talk about the TV, films, music, comics, board games, books, adverts and crisps (no, really) that blighted all of our childhoods. All accompanied by a slide show of some of their most potent childhood fears!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Since 2014, the Blackpool Film Festival has provided a platform for cinema programmed and co-produced with the artists and creative communities of the Fylde Coast.