As Mark and Jenny head to Cannes this week sailing the good ship Future Artists, publicist Jane McConnell is well and truly representing back home. Here’s this week’s inspiration: Kevin Curtis Is A Hero http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bnulqi3ZncU  

Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal makes it on Daily Motion’s front page – getting a record 100 views in 20 minutes!
Future Artists is delighted to be offering viewers the chance to see the film, Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal – for a limited period only – on Daily Motion. Smyth provides a no-holds-barred look into the world of street art and performance in the groundbreaking documentary movie, Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal.

Commissioned by The Space, the new on-demand digital arts service developed by the Arts Council in partnership with the BBC and produced by Sheffield Doc/Fest and Crossover, From the Sea to the Land Beyond, is a cross-platform interactive documentary to be delivered across cinema and online. With unparalleled access to over 100 years of BFI… Read the Rest

Welcome to Salford’s very own Zoetrope studios (Francis Ford Coppola’s San Fransisco Studio!) to demonstrate the positive impact Salfordians are having as part of this new media city

Supported by Greenpeace
Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal, a film by independent filmmaker Naomi Smyth, following performance collective The Invisible Circus on their travels around Bristol. Smyth’s four-year journey with the traveling band unveils how they revolutionized the spaces they inhabit – from an abandoned gothic cathedral, to police stations, shops and dead cinemas. As the spaces transform and become incredible, popular and successful community performance spaces, The Invisible Circus shows that it’s possible to takes on city councils, big property developers… and win. Tickets: Adults £5 Student & Unwaged £3.50

For more information: http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/

#OCCUPYMEDIA: One Film Versus The World.

The Lost Generation.

Friendship, First Loves, Rebellion!
1974; during a violent miners’ strike in a quiet Northern village a teenage
artist meets a gorgeous new girl from London but their attempts to escape
make him betray his family, community and best friends. With political
protests and communities straining under a crumbling economy the film is
relevant for today and it’s an uplifting and soulful mix of cool 1970s
styles, romance, teenage rebellion and gritty social realism.

The ever versatile Black Lion has since its opening in September 2011, been the new creative home to emerging talent on the film, theatre and arts scene, but now the lion is looking to the local and international musical communities to share in the Black Lion’s co-operative vision for allowing talent to have centre stage, thrive and survive.

Films coming soon to the Future Artists Pop up Cinema

Theatre and Film networking night every 1st monday of the month at the Black Lion