Manchester Film Festival introduces some of the world’s finest independent cinema to the city.

Manchester is renowned for its film making, but the lack of funding for independent film-makers and an increasing reliance on Crowdfunding could create difficulties for potential directors.

A play – completely in Mandarin and banned in China – is set to hit the stage at Manchester’s Contact Theatre.

Manchester International Film Festival (MANIFF) have announced a comprehensive line-up ahead of their citywide event which will begin in March 2016.

The director of Museum of the Year 2015, the Whitworth Gallery, attributes the museum’s recent triumph on the international stage to the people of Manchester, vowing to inject prize fund back into the community that sculpts its success.

Caleb, who is nominated for Best Director at the Manchester International Film Festival 2015, spoke to MM about his short film One Word and the ideas behind it.

After undergoing the ‘largest transformation in its history’, the Whitworth Art Gallery’s £15million redevelopment project has paid off as it has won the biggest museum prize in Britain and earnt the prestigious title of ‘Museum of the Year’ 2015.

HOME welcomed esteemed writer-director John Boorman into their newly carpeted venue to answer a few questions about his follow up film to Hope and Glory.

Feminist science-fiction film The Last of Her Blood that follows a young woman’s fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic reality and is based in Manchester is set for release on June 12.

Boyhood, directed by Richard Linklaters and starring Ellar Coltrane, is an epic coming of age film unlike any other.

Manchester’s Palace Theatre has splashed out £40,000 on 500 luxurious new seats.