Along with several fellow councillors and a few hundred schoolkids, I had the pleasure of attending the Screen Stockport Film Festival today – a special session ahead of the main festival running all day tomorrow (Saturday 17th).

We watched Being Sold, a feature film shot over just two days, mostly in Marchbank Drive, Cheadle (as you come off the M60 slip road onto Kingsway, the houses of Marchbank Drive are immediately on your left). As well as being filmed locally, Being Sold features quite a few local people in among the more famous actors.

The festival is the brainchild of 18 year old filmmaker Joe Barratt and, if today is anything to go by, it will be a great success – it certainly deserves to be.

(Loved the line in Being Sold where a vicar and prostitute are being interviewed, and the vicar says “you don’t really sell your body, you just charge an entrance fee”).

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