Film
Spring loaded: East End Film Festival announces line-up for next month’s cinematic harvest – our preview
The 17th annual festival of features, documentary and all sorts in between comes to venues around Hackney and beyond from 11-29 April
Read MoreFuture Hackney: New youth project captures gentrification on film
‘We wanted to bring up the production values from previous community film projects and do something a bit more ambitious…’
Read MoreYour 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
Read MoreFringe! 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
Read More‘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’…
Read MoreLondon 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
Read MoreHackney 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
Read MoreA 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’
Read MoreForty 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
Read MoreSummer 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…
Read MoreDalston’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
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 MoreHackney filmmaker hopes public will swipe right to help fund film about modern dating
Part romantic comedy, part a meditation on dating apps, Emoji tells the story of two strangers who meet late one evening in a Hackney McDonalds
Read MoreShort film on view at Hackney Museum zooms in on the life of painter Paul Dash
A Hackney Wick artist who migrated here in 1957 is the focus of a poignant and fascinating short film about black identity
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 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 MoreBlue Pen, film preview: Breaking the silence
Inspired by the tragic story of war reporter Dorothy Lawrence, Blue Pen looks at the lives of women journalists whose voices have been silenced
Read MoreThe Childhood of a Leader – 10-year old Hackney actor talks "scary films" and more
Tom Sweet’s gifted performance belies his young age in this fearsome psychodrama about fascism
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