Yorkshire Silent Film Festival is now Northern Silent Film Festival, and in 2023 the first NSFF brought live-scored film to audiences in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, and Tyneside.
Fourteen musicians performed for twenty events in fourteen venues, in Morecambe, Wetherby, Kendal, Newcastle, Marsden, Sheffield, Leigh, York, Leyburn, Leeds, Chester, Lancaster, and Hull.
Now we’re starting to plan Northern Silent Film Festival 2024, which will run from 28th September to 31st October. Participation in NSFF is open to venues, organisations, and individuals anywhere in the North.
Proposals for live music with film events are welcome at any time. Over the coming years, we hope the festival will grow and foster the further development of live-scored film presentation in the North.
2023 festival events were supported with funding from the National Lottery by Arts Council England and Film Hub North on behalf of BFI’s Film Audience Network.
Acknowledgements
Steve Hills at Eureka, Patricia Heckert at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Maria Chiba at FPA Classics, Hannah Prouse and Laura Berkely at BFI. Huttson Lo, Andrew Beadling, and all at Film Hub North. Deborah Parker at Cinema for All. Ben McCabe and Kathryn MacDonald at More Music. Vanessa Toulmin, Helen O’Neil, and the volunteers at Morecambe Winter Gardens. Andy Cook at Yellow Arch. The Rev Keith Griffin at Holy Trinity Church, Holmfirth. Dion Hanson and all at Projected Picture Trust. Symon Payne and Sandra Lemons. Shelagh Bourke at Lethal PR. Paul Terry at Second on the Left (graphic design).
2023 presenters
