Film
Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent star in East Londoner's short film
Hackney writer’s helpline-inspired short film The Phone Call is an emotional tear jerker
Read MoreHackney's Finest hour?
Hackney’s Finest by Lord of the Rings director Chris Bouchard has already caused a stir with its graphic portrayal of drug dealers and criminality
Read MoreRiding a new wave: Mexican cinema comes to the East End Film Festival
Sebastian Hofmann returns to the East End Film Festival this year as its director-in-residence and with a clear vision for the future of Mexican cinema
Read MoreHow a video camera became a weapon for feminists
The Sony Portapak gave ordinary artists the ability to use video for the first time and a new exhibition shows how it became a potent tool for French feminist groups of the 1970s
Read MoreIain Sinclair looks back at 70×70 birthday film project
The year-long project to commemorate the writer’s seventieth birthday in which he chose 70 films to be screened across the capital ends this month
Read MoreHackney to play key role in Green Film Festival
National festival to hold its opening and closing ceremonies at Hackney Picturehouse
Read MoreEast End Film Festival launches kickstarter campaign
Annual celebration of film appeals to the public for pledges as it becomes a Community Interest Company
Read MoreCalvary review – 'An incisive, thrilling and original piece of work'
A priest faces a deadly showdown with a parishioner in John Michael McDonagh’s satirical drama
Read MoreHow We Used to Live: a love letter to London
Author Travis Elborough from Stoke Newington helped to write this poetic documentary looking at London past and present
Read MoreMy Stuff – review
Finnish docudrama is shown at at The Proud Archivist as part of Cinémathèque, a film night of distinctive world cinema
Read MoreHackney resident Anna Duffield nominated for a BAFTA award
Film producer recognised for her role in short film Sea View, an unsettling tale of adolescent love
Read MoreFilmmaker completes project to make a film every week for a year
Azeem Mustafa overcomes creative block to complete unique project
Read MoreHitchcock's East End
The director’s links with East London are well known but until recently little celebrated
Read MorePie-oneers of fast food
Childhood memories of pie mash shops led George Steptoe to make a documentary about them
Read MoreHer – review
Joaquin Phoenix stars as a reclusive writer who falls for his artificially-intelligent operating system in Spike Jonze’s quirky Oscar contender
Read MoreDallas Buyers Club – review
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto make an unlikely pairing as a rodeo cowboy with Aids and a transgender woman with a cocaine habit in Jean-Marc Vallée’s biographical drama
Read MoreGoing The Way of the Dodo
Documentary is a celebration of a dying medium and portrait of a true film aficionado
Read MoreHackney students star in East Side Story dance film
Film based on West Side Story gives tale of star-crossed lovers a Hackney setting
Read MoreThe Wolf of Wall Street – review
Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-tipped The Wolf of Wall Street is a brash black comedy depicting the true story of wayward stockbroker Jordan Belfort
Read More12 Years a Slave – review
12 Years a Slave is showing at the Hackney Picturehouse throughout January and February
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