The article made it sound like you were the organiser. Everything you add is interesting, particularly that you’re hoping to revive the festival later this year.

Let me know when you’ve got more details about the next Salford Star!

Thanks for including stuff on the Salford Film Fest. There’s a couple of things that I need to put straight. Firstly I’m not the organiser of the Fest – I couldn’t put a Film Fest on to save my life. I used to do the PR for it and after last year’s Festival they stuck me on the board. But I can’t organise anything, even the Salford Star’s always late. There’s lots of people who put the Festival on, like Mike Knowles of Made Up North and Alison Surtees of CRIIS.

Secondly, it was the 2006 Fest that was cancelled as we couldn’t get any funding from the council. We’re hoping that they will see the light and put some funding behind a 2007 Festival.

We just wrote a huge article in the Star about the hypocrisy of Salford council finding half a million quid for Manchester’s big poncy Festival this year, quarter of a million quid for the Triathlon and over ten million quid for mediacity, when they only offered in-house marketing support of £3000 for Salford’s Film Festival which is a free event showing both community films and big box office stuff and to which everyone in the city is invited.

…And also the hypocrisy of luring the BBC to Salford while watching the city’s Web Studios, the biggest film studios in the country, put a great big For Sale sign up.

So there you go – we’ve now put the article on the website http://www.salfordstar.blogspot.com and would urge everyone to read it – it includes a lovely letter from Sir Ben Kingsley too.

The next issue of the Star should be out March 1st if we can get it written on time….

Thanks for your support and everything