A Manchester filmmaker has captured summer time in the Northern Quarter in all its glory in an online feature video.

The Cornerhouse and one of the Northern Quarter’s epicentres of comfort food are teaming up to create an interactive art piece that may require a few napkins – as it is made entirely from cake.

An all-girl roller derby group are offering Mancunians the chance to join the hordes of the living dead in a roller disco to raise funds to renovate their decaying Oldham home on Friday.

Manchester collective AlbinoMosquito are looking to redefine how audiences view films by letting them control their movie experience #scanners with brain waves.

Innovative filmmakers take centre stage at at a film screening of silent movies from Manchester Kino Kabaret at the Deaf Institute with all music and sound effects performed live.

Manchester Pride Fringe includes Pride, Coming Out: from Script to Screen, Byte and The Pansy Project

Hyde FC boasted an uncannily star-studded side for last night’s home friendly against Burnley – with George Michael, Tom Hanks and even a pornstar donning their shinpads and having a kickabout.

Shaune Harrison, who did make-up for Star Wars, Harry Potter and Captain America among countless other Hollywood movies, is launching his own prosthetics school, which is opening its doors in Salford Quays for the very first time.

Alan Turing’s hotly-anticipated biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley will open the British Film Festival it has been revealed alongside the film’s first trailer.

Film Hub North West has secured a massive £51,100 grant from the British Film Institute (BFI) to take part in Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season this autumn.

MM caught with some of the extras, make-up artists and prosthetics masters who attended the Star Wars Galactic Gala at The Printworks earlier this month.