Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (ShAFF) is back this March, bringing the city an array of hand-picked adventure, travel and extreme sports films from around the world. The festival boasts numerous […]
2WEEKS2MAKEIT
Calling all filmmakers and musicians! Could you make a music video in two weeks? How often do you see music videos on social media? Every day? And how often do […]
The Village Screen
Asking someone to the pictures may soon be taking a different turn. Gone are the days of plush velvet seats and overpriced popcorn. Now it’s sitting in a deckchair, blanket […]
Celluloid Screams 2015
Celluloid Screams returned to the Showroom on the 23-25 October with an eerie ensemble of new and classic horror cinema treats (and tricks) to keep us entertained on these darkening […]
George A. Romero’s Living Dead Series
A History of American Anxieties. With Halloween right around the corner, I’ve found myself delving into the annals of horror cinema, and who greater to start with than the lord […]
SensoriaPro 2015
SensoriaPro returned to the city for two days of stimulating discussions about digital arts, music and the creative industries. The ‘Pro’ event is a more pragmatic, industry-aimed window within Sensoria […]
The Salt of the Earth
Dir. Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders, 2014, UK. Wim Wenders presents an epic tour of Sebastião Salgado’s life’s work, guided by the man who was there through it all […]
Straight Outta Compton
Dir. F. Gary Gray, US, 2015 With characteristic bravado and unapologetic menace, Straight Outta Compton captures some of the foreboding power of gangsta rap, but at times its treatment of […]
Interview: Hand Of
Hand Of is an arts platform responsible for creating some unique and experimental events in Sheffield over a number of years with features ranging from live coding beats, to folk […]
2Weeks 2Make It Results
Way back in January we wrote about the opening of the 2Weeks 2Make It music video competition organised by South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network. Filmmakers and musicians apply separately and are then […]
The Late, Great Robin Williams
“If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.” Last year, I wrote a short article about the sadness I felt after the passing […]
Passion and Innovation
In her article ‘The Fading Art’, published in November’s Now Then, Anna Pintus approached “the conflict between nostalgia and progression” in cinema. She began and ended on the point that, […]