Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent star in East Londoner's short film
Hackney writer’s helpline-inspired short film The Phone Call is an emotional tear jerker
Film
Hackney's Finest hour?
Hackney’s Finest by Lord of the Rings director Chris Bouchard has already caused a stir with its graphic portrayal of drug dealers and criminality
Riding a new wave: Mexican cinema comes to the East End Film Festival
Sebastian Hofmann returns to the East End Film Festival this year as its director-in-residence and with a clear vision for the future of Mexican cinema
How a video camera became a weapon for feminists
The Sony Portapak gave ordinary artists the ability to use video for the first time and a new exhibition shows how it became a potent tool for French feminist groups of the 1970s
Iain Sinclair looks back at 70×70 birthday film project
The year-long project to commemorate the writer’s seventieth birthday in which he chose 70 films to be screened across the capital ends this month
Win cinema tickets to see Thief at the Barbican
Five pairs of tickets are up for grabs to see Michael Mann’s 1981 thriller
Hackney to play key role in Green Film Festival
National festival to hold its opening and closing ceremonies at Hackney Picturehouse
East End Film Festival launches kickstarter campaign
Annual celebration of film appeals to the public for pledges as it becomes a Community Interest Company
Calvary review – 'An incisive, thrilling and original piece of work'
A priest faces a deadly showdown with a parishioner in John Michael McDonagh’s satirical drama
How We Used to Live: a love letter to London
Author Travis Elborough from Stoke Newington helped to write this poetic documentary looking at London past and present
My Stuff – review
Finnish docudrama is shown at at The Proud Archivist as part of Cinémathèque, a film night of distinctive world cinema
Hackney resident Anna Duffield nominated for a BAFTA award
Film producer recognised for her role in short film Sea View, an unsettling tale of adolescent love
Filmmaker completes project to make a film every week for a year
Azeem Mustafa overcomes creative block to complete unique project
Hitchcock's East End
The director’s links with East London are well known but until recently little celebrated
Pie-oneers of fast food
Childhood memories of pie mash shops led George Steptoe to make a documentary about them
Her – review
Joaquin Phoenix stars as a reclusive writer who falls for his artificially-intelligent operating system in Spike Jonze’s quirky Oscar contender