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
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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’
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
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…
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
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
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
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
Subverting 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
London International Animation Festival comes to the Barbican
Festival to showcase a medley of styles, materials, techniques and productions used by today’s animators
Hackney 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
Short 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
Fringe! 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
The 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
The 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
Blue 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