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Your chance to win a FREE ticket to a Russian Revolution documentary

Students and those unemployed can take advantage of the offer to attend a screening of ‘myth-busting’ film 1917: Why The Russian Revolution Matters – without paying a rouble

Author: Hackney Citizen

Revolution in the head: a title card from 1917: Why The Russian Revolution Matters. Photograph: WORLDwrite via Vimeo

Fringe! Queer Film Fest: pushing boundaries and celebrating queer history

We check out a screening of The Misandrists at the film festival, which is on across East London until Sunday

Author: Hackney Citizen

It started with a kiss: a still from The Misandrists. d. Bruce LaBruce

‘Porn is a medium, not a genre’: performer, director and activist Pandora Blake talks ethical smut

The spanking specialist gave a talk – and screened some explicit clips from throughout porno history – at Shoreditch venue The Book Club at the start of the month. Our reviewer was there to ‘listen and learn’…

Author: Hackney Citizen

Pandora Blake shows off one of the tools of her trade. Photographs: Pandora Blake

London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow

LFFF is based, as in previous years, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, but the full programme includes many other talks, workshops, and is capped by a screening of Iranian film The Sealed Soil

Author: Hackney Citizen

London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow

Hackney film talent features in new Playback exhibition

Visitors to SPACE Studios between 13-22 July can flick between films on specially mounted touch screens, each a picture from the perspective of over 200 16-24 year-olds

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney film talent features in new Playback exhibition

A cinema lover’s double-bill: council approve licence for new Hoxton cinema as Rio launches crowdfunder

Mayor Glanville lends support to the all-new Curzon planned for Pitfield Street and Sadiq Khan is among backers of the long-promised ‘RIOgeneration’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Facade: a mock-up of the new Curzon frontage. Image: Hackney Council

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Shorts weather: a captive audience at last summer's event. Photograph: Luke Blackett

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

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…

Author: Hackney Citizen

Screen burn - we look forward to the 16th East End Film Festival. All images courtesy East End Film Festival

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Local lad: actor Idris Alba at a recent Ebola conference. Photograph: Jessica Lea/DFID via Wikimedia Commons

Dalston’s Immediate Theatre ask – what’s your story?

The community arts group have created a programme that uses creativity to help adults gain employment after receiving filmmaking training

Author: Hackney Citizen

Snap happy: learning how to use film equipment with What's Your Story? Photograph: Immediate Theatre

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

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London 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

Author: Hackney Citizen

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