Miff, Manchester International Film Festival & Kinofilm

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LATEST NEWS ON KINO and SUBMISSIONS

Please note that the Kino office on Edge Street in Manchester is now closed. Please forward all enquiries about Kino or for news on film submissions to John Wojowski at the following email address: john.kino@good.co.uk or johnw@kinofilm.org.uk - or by post to the address below (for further details click on the 'read more' link below).

Important Announcement

Sadly, due to rejection of our funding applications by both Manchester City Council and North West Vision (aka the North West Regional Screen Agency of the UK FILM COUNCIL), and other regional stakeholders, MIFF, Manchester International Film Festival incorporating Kinofilm Shorts Festival has been postponed until further notice. They have rejected our applications for the last two years (2007 and 2008), therefore we are presently exploring other avenues of funding to be able to relaunch the festival in either November 2008 or February 2009. It's unfortunate that, the 'powers that be' did not share our vision for an International Film Festival in Manchester. In fact, they lacked any vision at all for a major film event in the city justifying their refusal by saying there was no appetite for a major film festival in the city. We don't know where the justification for these comments came from but the funders have certainly offerred no explanation as to what research their findings are based on - despite requests from ourselves. In fact, they have offered no evidence at all to support statement which we believe brings them into question. We obviously based our plans on 10 years of Kino and the research that we had carried out at our festivals indicated strongly that there was huge support for the new direction of the festival. We sincerely apologise to all our clients for the disappointing outcome of our plans but please stay with us as we are working hard behind the scenes on being able to present a new event in the near future. Read More...

The XXX Club

Kinofilm launches the XXX Club

Kino's XXXclub is currently on hold due to our present situation. Please watch this space for details of a new cult movie night we will be launching in 2008. Please watch this space.

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Subscribe to our email list now from the menu on the left to receive regular emails regarding the festival and other events that we are planning or associated with. Fill in the full questionairre and you'll be able to post messages on our new bulliten board and interact with other filmmakers in the forum.Please use this site to develop your own community of filmmakers, producers, technicians, crew and other cast. The forum is there for you to use so please USE IT! Read More...

Kinofilm Award Winners 2006

Here are details of the film Awards from our last festival in 2006.

10 Years of Kino. 10 Awards for the Jury¹s Best Films of the Festival. The following films were nominated and awarded the best films of the festival in the following categories -