Our 2015 Short Film Competition closes to entries this Friday 3rd July. Enter via our Film Freeway Page here: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/IsleofManFilmFestival Categories include: Fiction Documentary Comedy Animation and “Island Life” – a category specific to IOMFF and open to any filmmakers who have made a short about or inspired by Island living and
We just posted a short film looking back at IOMFF2014 – what a brilliant time we had! It wouldn’t have been possible without our fabulous team of volunteers, our wonderful sponsors and YOU, our audience. We already have some fantastic events in the pipeline for IOMFF2015 (Sept 9th-13th) so keep
IOMFF2015 will take place from Wednesday Sept 9th to Sunday September 13th at locations around the Isle of Man. Our team have been working hard to come up with a great schedule, including competitions, screenings, film discussion nights, panel events, industry guests, workshops and more. We will also be working
Well, that’s another IOMFF done and dusted. We ‘wrapped’ on Sunday evening after five days worth of events that went well beyond our expectations; everything from music documentaries to silent cinemas, BAFTA winning Directors to fringe events. A large number of the events were sold out in advance, the rest were
During the final day of Isle of Man Film Festival our shortlisted film entries were shown to a packed audience in the morning followed by the awards ceremony in the afternoon. We were fortunate to have three of the festival winners in attendance: Gail Hackston (Cancer Hair), Brook Wassall (Postcard from
An Audience with Mark Kermode at the Gaiety Theatre was amazing. Boy can that man talk! He spoke about how bad film reviews are remembered when good ones are not. Does that mean we have to make this blog bad for it to be memorable? Ok I’ll try! Reminiscing about
WOW what an amazing Friday evening. BAFTA award winning director Amma Asante charmed a packed Broadway Cinema during her Q & A with Mark Kermode. Not surprisingly she was eloquent and charming but was also refreshingly down to earth and very appreciative of the success and adulation she was receiving.
Well Isle of Man Film Festival kicked off well this evening with its first event at the Gaiety Theatre. Davy Knowles, Island of Culture patron was in attendance to view segments of his upcoming documentary Island Bound which documented a musical journey from IOM and UK, over to America and
Blimey… *cough*. So, in 7 days time, our festival kicks off with a super-exciting event: Manx-born internationally successful blues musician Davy Knowles premiering his superb documentary, ‘Island Bound’. To celebrate this, today’s Daily FilmFest Comp is to win a pair of tickets to said event – you have til tomorrow (Thurs)
A little birdy told us (see what we did there?) that some of you had difficulty buying your Earlybird tickets over the weekend due to a tech hitch on the Villa website. So, not wanting anyone to miss out, we’ve decided to EXTEND the deadline for a further 48hours, so