Sun 18 Oct – Freedom to film: reclaiming our public spaces
Mandeville Square E5, Ridley Road Market and outside Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street
Film
Call for home movies!
Hackney’s last remaining cinema is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a local community film project
Thurs 20 Aug: Al fresco film at the Brittania, with Andrew Weatherall
Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), hand picked by Andrew Weatherall, and followed by a DJ set by him
The Duke to host short film bonanza
On 23 August, the Cinematograph Film Club hosts its first short film night at the Duke of Wellington public house
Sat 25 July: In Conversation with Corrado Coltelli, with films by Saint Etienne
An invitation to explore the legacy of the traditional London café
Hackney goes to Nollywood
THE Hackney Citizen asked the little guy with the big DVD stall in Ridley Road Market for the four best-selling Nollywood films that are keeping Hackney’s Nigerian community glued to their sofas. Patrick Pringle and Josh Loeb review these Lagos epics
Sat 30 May: Age of Stupid, Rio Cinema
SAT 30 May • Hackney and Tower Hamlets Friends of the Earth presents THE AGE OF STUPID (12A) 3.15
(UK 2009) dir. Fanny Armstrong 92m.
Legacy in the Dalston dust
The Hackney Citizen talks to film-maker Winstan Whitter about his new documentary, ‘Legacy in the Dust’
Tony Grisoni: stranger in Kingsland
The Hackney Citizen talks to film-maker Tony Grisoni about his new film
