Film & Digital
LJMU MA Short Film Festival, Sixth Edition (2026)
The annual LJMU MA Short Film Festival is making a return for its sixth-year running. The 2026 edition of the festival will take place this spring, online and in person (from March 20th to 27th), including over forty films from more than twenty countries. Organised and run by MA Film students from Liverpool John Moores...
Liverpool Doc Club presents: FOLKTALES (2025)
Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. FOLKTALES tells the timely and emotional story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional “gap year” learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world....
The Portrait Paradox
The Portrait Paradox brings together portraits from the Williamson’s collection and Liverpool-based artist Adrian Jeans’ portrait-based sculpture, drawing, photography and video. Jeans says: “Influenced by the Williamson’s fascinating art collection, I have been inspired by an under-acknowledged progressiveness in portraiture. At its best it challenges the norms of the time and The Portrait Paradox will...
Loyalty: An Exhibition of Paintings by Steve des Landes
Steve des Landes has been Artist in Residence at the Williamson since early 2025. This major solo exhibition will include new artwork created in the gallery, alongside more than forty paintings from his recent practice. Together they will present an insight into his bold and singular representations of the human condition. The exhibition will focus...
FACT Announces Double Agents: Play and Performance in Digital Worlds
FACT and Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts (SODA) are delighted to announce Double Agents: Play and Performance in Digital Worlds, a new series of monthly evening seminars exploring the social, political and cultural impacts of working with advanced digital technologies. Running from January to April 2026, the series brings together artists, curators and...
Event Submissions Now Live for Lunar New Year 2026
Culture Liverpool requires several artists/makers/arts organisations to design, create and deliver arts workshops or activities as part of the 2026 Lunar New Year programme. The artist would be required to deliver the workshops or activities on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 February 2026 at the Chinese New Year Celebrations located in the Family Zone on...
Creative Cities Convention
The only event dedicated to professionals making film, TV and digital content outside London, the two-day convention travels to a different UK city each year, attracting hundreds of delegates to hear from leading broadcasters, producers and creative innovators.
BAFTA-winning producer and writer brings Walton’s story to the screen
A powerful new documentary is set to be screened in Liverpool this week, offering a compelling and heartfelt portrait of Walton. Commissioned by Hat Trick Productions Managing Director, Jimmy Mulville (who was born and raised in Walton), Of People and Place is a 30-minute film shot entirely on location in Walton and aims to challenge...
City’s communities to benefit from booming film industry
A new Liverpool City Council initiative has been launched which means the city’s thriving film and TV sector will have a positive impact on local communities. As the UK’s most filmed city outside of London, Liverpool Film Office has launched the Film Friendly Neighbourhoods scheme, which means that productions which film in residential areas are...
Liverpool to host inaugural Location Managers Awards
The spotlight is finally turning to the unsung heroes of the UK film and television industry. Location Managers, Scouts, Studio Managers and Unit Managers—those who shape the visual identity of every production—will be honoured for the first time at the Location Managers Awards UK, set to take place on Saturday, 4th October 2025 at the historic St George’s Hall,...
