SUPERNOVA Film Festival

We are beyond excited to announce our brand new film festival taking place in May as a counter point to Grimmfest in October. SUPERNOVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL will be an international celebration of science fiction cinema; past, present and future. The event will take place 28th-29th May 2016 at ODEON Printworks in Manchester, UK.

The idea for the event had been in the back of our festival co-director Simeon Halligan’s mind for sometime after noticing a drought of Science Fiction based film festivals in the UK; Simeon remarks;‘Noticing there isn’t really a film festival centring on the Science fiction genre outside of London, we thought it was about time we readjusted the balance. We run Horror centric Grimmfest every October, so it seemed to make sense to introduce our new Sci-fi themed event at the other end of the year’.

SUPERNOVA marks the second large scale collaboration between ODEON and us after the highly successful 7th edition of GRIMMFEST. SUPERNOVA is set to take over ODEON’s state of the art big screens over the bank holiday at the end of May. Whilst the team here at Grimm Up North HQ are currently tight lipped about the festivals line up due to be announced in the coming months, Festival co-director Rachel Richardson-Jones teases ‘There’s lots to be excited about including 70mm screenings of a recent classic, Q&A’s with legends of Sci-fi cinema production and a plethora of the best new sci-fi movies from every corner of the globe’.