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CANCELLED: Manchester Crime and Justice Film Festival: Rex Bloomstein Documentaries
This event has been cancelled.
Manchester Crime and Justice Film Festival: Rex Bloomstein Documentaries
Date: Thursday 4th June 2020
Time:
15.00 - Crime and the camera
17.00 - A Second Chance
Location: No 70 Oxford Street
Tickets: Free – Available on Eventbrite
Manchester charity
CLOSING EVENTS - Thurs 4th June Free No 70 Oxford Street
We are very pleased to announce that acclaimed documentary film-maker Rex Bloomstein will be closing this year’s festival with two special events.
Crime and the camera – 15.00 -16.00 Free No 70 Oxford Street
Beginning from the mid 1970’s to the present day. Rex will show excerpts from his considerable body of work, explain the motivations behind his features and the recount challenges of filming difficult subjects.
A Second Chance 17.00 Free No 70 Oxford Street
In his latest feature documentary Rex, in collaboration with the Timpson Group, A Second Chance casts a spotlight onto former prisoners. It is a film about hope. Exploring the transformative power of work for those who genuinely want to change, it tells the heart-breaking and uplifting stories of both serving and ex-prisoners struggling to turn their lives around.
This film will be introduced by Sir Martin Narey, the former Director General of the Prison Service, first Chief Executive of the National Offender Management Service and Visiting Professor at Manchester Met’s Policy, Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU). Martin was inspired to join the Service after watching Rex’s 1981 BBC documentary about Strangeways, Manchester’s then notorious Victorian prison. Rex and Darren Burns from the Timpson Group will be on hand for the post screening Q & A.
The Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival 2020
Welcome to this year’s festival sponsored by the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and curated by staff from the university’s Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU).
Building on last year’s success - we’ve gone larger – while keeping true to our mission – screening great films which provoke debate and provide an alternative take on crime, justice and punishment in the 21st century.
In this year’s programme we’ve brought you an eclectic mix of crime classics and lesser known gems chosen by crime experts and film enthusiasts. They will be on hand to introduce their movie choice and answer your questions at the Q and A sessions after each screening.
This year we’re pleased to be working with an equally eclectic mix of enthusiastic and committed partners. We are grateful for their support and help.
See you at the movies - your festival team:
Kevin Wong, Gavin Bailey and Lucy Simpson
Check out all the other events in the Manchester Crime and Justice Film Festival 2020!
Crime and Justice Learning Fair
Date: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Time: 1pm – 5pm
Location: Geoffrey Manton Building
Tickets: Free –
Doing what ‘it says on the tin’ the Fair will provide opportunities for criminal justice professionals, volunteers and service users to find out more about what we all do in an informal and relaxed environment.
I Believe in You (1952)
Date: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Time: 5pm - 7.30pm
Location: LB01, Number 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
Tickets: Free –
Our opening movie is a forgotten 1952 Ealing Classic with a title that captures the essence of the lead character - the sympathetic probation officer played by Cecil Parker, looking out for a troubled young man and woman played by Harry Fowler and Joan Collins.
American Psycho (2000)
Date: Wednesday 25h March 2020
Time: 5.30pm - 8pm
Location: LB01, Number 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
Tickets: Free –
Based on the 1991 Brett Easton-Ellis novel, this cult movie charts the life of wall street banker and serial killer Patrick Bateman and has been described as a neo-noir satirical psychological horror film.
Student Choice: Shoplifters (2018)
Date: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Time: 5.30pm - 8pm
Location: LB01, Number 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
Tickets: Free –
Chosen by PhD student Charlotte Gislam. Shoplifters (2018) gives audiences a different perspective on crime families. The Shibatas, living in the outskirts of Toyko, gain no status through their crimes, which are motivated by desperation. The film examines right and wrong, found family, and which crimes are worse than others.
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Date: Saturday 25th April 2020
Time: 11.30am - 3.30pm OR 1.45pm - 5.30pm
Location: Greater Manchester Police Museum
Tickets: £3 -
In partnership with the Greater Manchester Police Museum. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play police officers attempting to solve a series of mysterious deaths in a West Country village. Includes tour of Greater Manchester Police Museum.
Fan’s Choice: Twelve Angry Men (1957)
Date: Wednesday 6th May 2020
Time: 17.30pm - 20.00pm
Location: LB01, Number 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
Tickets: Free –
Chosen by fans from last year’s festival. In this classic American courtroom drama, twelve men deliberate the conviction or acquittal of an 18-year old defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt, forcing them to question their own morals and values.
Le Trou (The Hole) (1960)
Date: Thursday 14th May 2020
Time: 17.30pm - 20.00pm
Location: LB01, Number 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
Tickets: Free –
Directed by French legend Jaques Becker and hailed as a masterpiece by Francois Truffaut, Le Trou is based on a novel by an ex-con, and in turn, on a real-life escape from Le Sante prison in Paris.
La Isla Minima (Marshland) (2014)
Date: Wednesday 20th May 2020
Time: 17.30pm - 20.00pm
Location: Instituto Cervantes
Tickets: Free –
In 1980, Madrid homicide detectives Pedro Suarez and Juan Robles are sent to a 'backwater' town on the Guadalquivir Marshes in Spain's 'Deep South' to investigate the disappearance of two teenage sisters during the town's festivities.
Prisoner’s Choice: In the Name of the Father (1993)
Date: Thursday 21st May 2020
Time: 17.30pm - 20.00pm
Location: No 70 Oxford Street
Tickets: Free –
In partnership with education organisation Novus and HMP/YOI Thorncross, In the Name of the Father was chosen by learners at HMP/YOI Thorncross. A man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.
Closing Event: Rex Bloomstein Documentaries
Date: Thursday 4th June 2020
Time:
15.00 - Crime and the camera
17.00 - A Second Chance
Location: No 70 Oxford Street
Tickets: Free –
We are very pleased to announce that acclaimed documentary film-maker Rex Bloomstein will be closing this year’s festival with two special events. In Crime and the Camera, Rex will show excerpts from his considerable body of work, explain the motivations behind his features and the recount challenges of filming difficult subjects. In A Second Chance, Rex will explore the transformative power of work for those who genuinely want to change. The film tells the heart-breaking and uplifting stories of both serving and ex-prisoners struggling to turn their lives around.
Check out the full festival program here:
