There’s plenty of local and regional talent in the line up of this year’s Manchester Film Festival, which takes place at the city’s Odeon Great Northern from March 12-19.
Among six world feature premieres debuting at this year’s event we find Corrie’s Ian Puleston-Davies, aka the street’s erstwhile builder and landlord Owen Armstrong, making his directorial debut in Bolan’s Shoes, a drama revolving around a road accident at the height of glam rock fever.
Stockport actress Kelly Wenham stars in Dan Clarke’s A Kind Of Kidnapping, the story of a young, broke couple who kidnap a sleazy politician who decides he can spin the story to his own advantage.
Manchester-based production company Old Hall Films presents Wait For Me, a drama about a young woman dragged into a life of crime after arriving in England from Ireland.