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Posts Tagged ‘Film’

Hackney’s Bukky Bakray nominated for Leading Actress and Rising Star at 2021 BAFTAs

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 March 2021 at 16:08

Teenager played the lead in locally made film Rocks, which is up for seven prizes at the awards on 11 April

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Theresa Ikoko: ‘Hackney is a hub of love, safety and home for so many’

By Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley | Friday 2 October 2020 at 10:33

Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley speaks to the co-writer of highly praised new film Rocks about the impact of the borough on her work, and why she wanted to use her platform to counter negative perceptions

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Hackney playwright’s film wins Best Screenplay at illustrious Lift-Off awards

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 27 January 2020 at 15:32

Tamara von Werthern ‘over the moon’ after picking up the gong at a ceremony at Pinewood Studios this month

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Local playwright’s first film to show in Berlin after London Lift-Off triumph

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 31 December 2019 at 10:39

Tamara von Werthern ‘delighted’ that her short film will be screened in her home country after impressing festival judges

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Ripley & Lambert, Dalston: ‘Café paradise for film fans’

By Elettra Scrivo | Monday 14 October 2019 at 14:41

The new specialist bookshop, with its hypnotic, Twin Peaks-inspired floor, provides a ‘perfect escape from the bustle of Kingsland Road’

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Forty films in a day at Short Sighted Cinema on 18 June

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 June 2017 at 10:29
Shorts weather: a captive audience at last summer's event. Photograph: Luke Blackett

The all day event at The Yard in Hackney Wick will feature hour-long blocks of shorts – from heartwarming to horrifying – on six different themes

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Summer loving: the East End Film Festival returns on 2 June – read our full preview

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 May 2017 at 17:45
Screen burn - we look forward to the 16th East End Film Festival. All images courtesy East End Film Festival

Read on for details of a nuclear double-bill, Brexit and Tupac profiled, a Caribbean take on Shakespeare, an Eastenders alumnus’ directorial debut and much more…

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Idris Elba scours Hackney for paid extras to appear in new film

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 6 May 2017 at 14:30
Local lad: actor Idris Alba at a recent Ebola conference. Photograph: Jessica Lea/DFID via Wikimedia Commons

The picture will centre on the borough’s African Caribbean community in the eighties

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Hackney Showroom announces JOY & DISSENT: A festival of cultural activism from 27 March – 9 April

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 March 2017 at 16:59
Malik Nashad Sharpe, AKA marikiscrycrycry.

To celebrate their 2nd birthday, creative and cultural space Hackney Showroom has put together an outstanding programme of cutting edge new performance, bringing together 20 new shows & 80 artists

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London Short Film Festival: Hackney cinemas to play leading role as programme announced for 2017

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 22 December 2016 at 11:34

Next month’s festival includes a special focus on the LGBTQ community

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Subverting the norm: Sean Spencer, director of neo-noir East End thriller Panic

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 12 December 2016 at 16:52

Director’s gritty debut feature looks to show a side of black masculinity rarely seen on screen, as well as explore themes of mental health and loneliness in cities

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London International Animation Festival comes to the Barbican

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 December 2016 at 10:40

Festival to showcase a medley of styles, materials, techniques and productions used by today’s animators

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Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest: this year’s programme announced

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 October 2016 at 14:39
Check It

East London’s cinemas, galleries, pop-up venues and basement clubs to host film screenings as well as experimental art, workshops, interactive walks and parties

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The Hard Stop, an interview with filmmaker George Amponsah: Language of the unheard

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 17:08
Protests in support of Mark Duggan.

Documentary-maker George Amponsah talks Mark Duggan, Met policing and the best way to protest police violence

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Pillow cinema team’s £45k bid to restore derelict Castle picturehouse

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 7 March 2016 at 14:41
The Castle Cinema's ornate proscenium arch. Photograph: Pillow Cinema

The team behind London pop-up cinema events has launched a £45,000 appeal to reopen the derelict cinema on Chatsworth Road

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WIN a pair of tickets to a screening of Selma

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 20 January 2015 at 14:00

We’re giving a lucky reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to a special screening in London

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Win cinema tickets to see Thief at the Barbican

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 21 May 2014 at 18:40

Five pairs of tickets are up for grabs to see Michael Mann’s 1981 thriller

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12 Years a Slave – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 15 January 2014 at 17:35

12 Years a Slave is showing at the Hackney Picturehouse throughout January and February

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American Hustle – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 8 January 2014 at 13:34

A pair of successful con artists find themselves entangled with an ambitious FBI agent in David O. Russell’s black comedy

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Star Wars auditions to come to Hackney?

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 11 November 2013 at 16:11

Hopefuls need not venture to galaxy far away for chance to clinch role in hotly anticipated movie

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