BAFTA accredited film festival is back for another year with lots of talent
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Back for another year, the BAFTA accredited festival is showcasing 300 short films across the week.
People gathered at cinema in the Market Place for the first night and despite rail strikes, plenty of film fanatics turned up the event.
Over recent years, Bolton has provided the backdrop for major productions including Peaky Blinders, Happy Valley, and It’s a Sin.
Adrian Barber, the festival director, said: “It’s been amazing and has been hard to find a spare seat and even right now, it could not have gone any better considering there is a rail strike as well.
“We have had universities come from far and wide and people flying in from Chile, Austin, Seattle, Poland and all sorts of places.
“It’s like a buffet of film really and there is something on the table for everybody with mainstream, documentary and horror.”
Building on Bolton’s reputation of being Hollywood of the North, the festival is now in its sixth year.
One documentary filmmaker had travelled from Edinburgh to attend the event with three of his films being shown.
One of Duncan’s film is a ‘sigh scape’ a one minute long seascapes around the UK but where Duncan sighs over the top of it to give it some humour.
The second is ‘Desire Lines’ which shows shortcut paths people take in Edinburgh and what this means for humanity if humans are taking the path of least resistance.
While the third film is called ‘Outlets’ about the grief while losing his own nan.
Duncan Cowles said: “The sigh-scapes one I was just at the beach, and I was probably sighing while filming and thought it was funny so filmed it and made it into a film.
“Desire Lines, I walk around the areas a lot so that’s why I filmed it.
“And when my grandma died, it was because I did not want to make any of them and I was resisting it because it felt like it was not the right thing to do but everything else I tried to do just kept coming back to her, so I did it.”
The film festival has plenty more to show and welcomes everyone to attend.
Comedian Joe Lycett will also be in attendance this week.
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