The music documentary festival’s Manchester leg runs from 4-13 November.
Doc’n Roll Film Festival returns for its 2022 edition, platforming a series of documentaries that celebrate music subcultures. The festival, which is on tour across 13 UK cities, kicks off its Manchester event with a launch night on 4 November featuring a selection of music documentary shorts from local filmmakers and DJ sets from Barber Presents and Alphaville.
This year’s feature-length documentary screenings include Lee Fields: A Faithful Man and Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille, the latter of which traces the wide-ranging legacy of the American singer. There’s also This is National Wake, a film debut from director Mirissa Neff that documents the South African punk band’s history with previously unseen footage of 1970s anti-racist counterculture.
Elsewhere, Doc’n Roll Film Festival is showing A Film About Studio Electrophonique, looking at the influential Sheffield-based studio where the likes of The Human League, Pulp and Heaven 17 recorded some of their earliest works. There’s also a documentary on South London 70s band Cymande. Both of these screenings include Q&As with the directors.
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Head to the Doc’n Roll Film Festival website for further information and tickets. Doc’n Roll Film Festival 2022 takes place in 13 cities across the UK from 27 October to 13 November.