In #blackpool today for @BPLFilmFest ? 👀🎥 Join us here at Grundy before 4.45pm today to see STIM CINEMA and our friends @abingdonstudios for Kris Canavan's exhibition 'In the Shadow of' (10-4 today/tomorrow and by appt only until 20/11). Both exhibitions are FREE 🎫🎫

After attending its inaugural meeting this week, I joined the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Film and Broader Screen. The group, which brings together cross-party MPs, is dedicated to promoting and enhancing the understanding of the British film industry, film culture and the wider moving image in the UK 🎬 This couldn’t have come at a better time as the Blackpool Film Festival kicks off across multiple Blackpool venues this weekend, including at @_AuntySocial_, @ShowtownBPL, Backlot Cinema, @abingdonstudios and @GrundyBlackpool. For the past decade @BPLFilmFest has filled a gap in Blackpool’s film offer, providing room for discussion about films and affordable screenings of diverse cinema – from independent and art house, to shorts, documentary, locally-made and foreign-language productions. As part of the festival’s commitment to opening up opportunities for local talent, the main programme begins tonight at 6pm, with a Film Maker's mixer at the Backlot, hosted by the @BFI Network. Festival organisers are committed to providing opportunities to work with film to local people, combatting Blackpool’s cultural brain drain and providing access to quality opportunities on our doorstep. Learn more about Blackpool Film Festival and browse this weekend’s line-up here: 🔗 blackpoolfilm.co.uk

‼️ ANNOUNCEMENT ‼️ Our next solo commission…. . Kris Canavan Feat. Stuart Brisley . PREVIEW FRI 01 Nov 5-7 pm . Full info via our website. . Commissioned by @abingdonstudios @ace_national . supported by @_AuntySocial_ as part of @BPLFilmFest . With thanks to LUX, London