Film
London Feminist Film Festival gets underway
A packed programme of films about subjects ranging from a Cuban drummer to Judaism starts tonight at the Rio cinema
Read MoreUrban montage: Charlotte Ginsborg’s Melior Street
New documentary by Charlotte Ginsborg explores the soul of a changing street
Read MoreAsif Kapadia – ‘Something happened with Amy'
Camden, not Hackney, is the place with which the singer Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning, will always be associated. But for Hackney-born director Asif Kapadia, whose acclaimed documentary Amy tells the story of the singer’s precarious life and untimely death, Winehouse could have been “a girl from down the road”. Unlike…
Read MoreHinterland: ode to a lost generation
First time filmmaker Harry Macqueen scooped a Raindance nomination with Hinterland, a romantic road movie about navigating through your late twenties
Read MoreDressed as a Girl: the inside story of East London's alternative drag scene
East End Film Festival to screen this moving tale of lipstick and counterculture starring the likes of Jonny Woo and Holestar
Read MoreIain Sinclair helps retrace poet's journey for new documentary
19th-century Romantic writer John Clare once walked from an Epping Forest asylum to Northamptonshire without food or money. Andrew Kötting and author Iain Sinclair have made a documentary about it, starring Toby Jones and a straw bear
Read MoreHackney playwright's murder musical to be made into film
Adaptation of Alecky Blythe’s London Road boasts a stellar British cast, and could prove to be one of the most unusually made films of the year
Read MoreBromance explores male intimacy on the streets of Shoreditch
Experimental dance troupe find brohesion in this stylish and sensitive short film
Read More'No stunts and no stupid stuff': Clapton director has no nonsense approach to filmmaking
With his debut feature In the Blood, Mark Abraham wanted to make a crime film that was high on drama and low on cost
Read MoreJem Cohen: 'By some standards I'm kind of invisible'
Veteran New York filmmaker Jem Cohen talks about the meaningless of the word ‘indie’, the resilience of cities and having a poor sense of direction
Read MoreFootage of Hackney wanted for Open Cinema project
Artist Neil Cummings wants to create a film-based celebration of Hackney using film from local people and aspiring filmmakers
Read MoreSecret Cinema defends price hike for The Empire Strikes Back
Ambitious scale of the production means tickets have to cost more, says Secret Cinema founder
Read MoreHackney's Finest – film review: an endearingly silly crime caper
Cartoon gangsters and dodgy accents produce underwhelming results in this film about Hackney’s grittier side
Read MoreCeleb-studded new film is set in a parallel East London world
Set The Thames on Fire is a dark, fantastical vision of East London starring the likes of Noel Fielding and Sally Phillips
Read MoreHackney filmmaker wins Oscar for short film The Phone Call
James Lucas was awarded an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for his film about a crisis helpline worker starring Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent
Read MoreDocumentary shows 'human face' behind the UK's housing crisis
When her family were made homeless, Daisy-May Hudson picked up a camera and began filming the story of their displacement
Read MoreSnow in Paradise: How a boy from Hoxton swapped crime for Islam
Snow in Paradise is an East End gangster film based on the true story of screenwriter Martin Askew
Read MoreStoke Newington animator's new film is an analogy for modern Britain
A new arrival to an isolated island community causes a stir in animated short film Dead Air
Read MoreExclusive: Rich Mix could go bust over Tower Hamlets Council ‘loan’
Shoreditch arts organisation in financial dispute with council over £850,000 and withheld development money
Read MoreLondon Short Film Festival gets underway this weekend
Billed as a snapshot of 21st century Britain, this year’s festival received a record number of submissions
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