Posts Tagged ‘Film’
Hackney Showroom announces JOY & DISSENT: A festival of cultural activism from 27 March – 9 April
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
Read MoreLondon Short Film Festival: Hackney cinemas to play leading role as programme announced for 2017
Next month’s festival includes a special focus on the LGBTQ community
Read MoreSubverting the norm: Sean Spencer, director of neo-noir East End thriller Panic
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
Read MoreLondon International Animation Festival comes to the Barbican
Festival to showcase a medley of styles, materials, techniques and productions used by today’s animators
Read MoreFringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest: this year’s programme announced
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
Read MoreThe Hard Stop, an interview with filmmaker George Amponsah: Language of the unheard
Documentary-maker George Amponsah talks Mark Duggan, Met policing and the best way to protest police violence
Read MorePillow cinema team’s £45k bid to restore derelict Castle picturehouse
The team behind London pop-up cinema events has launched a £45,000 appeal to reopen the derelict cinema on Chatsworth Road
Read MoreWIN a pair of tickets to a screening of Selma
We’re giving a lucky reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to a special screening in London
Read MoreWin cinema tickets to see Thief at the Barbican
Five pairs of tickets are up for grabs to see Michael Mann’s 1981 thriller
Read More12 Years a Slave – review
12 Years a Slave is showing at the Hackney Picturehouse throughout January and February
Read MoreAmerican Hustle – review
A pair of successful con artists find themselves entangled with an ambitious FBI agent in David O. Russell’s black comedy
Read MoreStar Wars auditions to come to Hackney?
Hopefuls need not venture to galaxy far away for chance to clinch role in hotly anticipated movie
Read MoreDocumentary Project Wild Thing claims kids need to get back to nature
Film by David Bond and Ashley Jones was screened at Hackney Picturehouse earlier this month
Read MoreFemale talent celebrated at Underwire short film festival
Hackney Wick’s Yard Theatre set for movie takeover
Read MoreLondon Feminist Film Festival to return to Hackney Picturehouse next month
Screenings aim to challenge portrayals of women in cinema
Read MoreBlue Jasmine – review
Cate Blanchett’s character in this intriguing film recalls Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire
Read MoreJohn Akomfrah’s Stuart Hall film to be screened for Black History Month
Movie includes rare historical documentary footage of 1970s icon
Read MoreUrban animals the focus of artist Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film Taskafa
Treatment of street dogs of Istanbul “a whisper of what we do to people”, says longtime Haggerston resident
Read MoreThe World’s End – review
Five old friends complete a pub crawl they started as schoolboys in this funny finale to the ‘Cornetto’ trilogy
Read MoreGerry Cottle Jr raises roof with new ‘Cine-Gigs’ series
Is it a concert? Is it a film? Son of famous circus owner tells why his new venture straddles both realms
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