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Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival – Five Dances

Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival – Five Dances

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With the lobby of the Hackney Picturehouse heaving with exciting vibes and tight nit culture – the audience waiting to get into the sold out opening screening for the Fringe! Film Festival. In its third year now, it has brought and championed some real treats of queer cinema to East…

BEV 2013: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers – Small Stories, Big Pictures.

BEV 2013: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers – Small Stories, Big Pictures.

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  Bird’s Eye-View have been championing and celebrating women in film through yearly festivals, programmes and events in what is still a massively phallocentric industry. Because cinema is ingrained so deep in culture, it is easy for many to never even notice the lack of female directors or screenwriters so…

New Black Film Club celebrates Black History Month

New Black Film Club celebrates Black History Month

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  Throughout Black history month this October (until 25 Oct), The New Black Film Club(TNBFC) is screening a selection of productions at the The  Picture House in Hackney, Stratfford and Ritzy Picture House in Brixton. Along with the award winning documentaries, features and independent films there will be Q&A sessions…

Film Festival Australia @ Hackney Picturehouse Review

Film Festival Australia @ Hackney Picturehouse Review

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Australia took over The Hackney Picture House for three days last week. Formally known as London Australian Film Festival and held annually at the Barbican, this smorgasbord board of Australian celluloid now in a new incarnation, has partnered with Picture House. Melissa Palleschi popped over to see what all the…

Film Festival Australia debuts at Hackney Picture House

Film Festival Australia debuts at Hackney Picture House

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Formally known as London Australian Film Festival and held annually at the Barbican, this smorgasbord board of Australian celluloid now in a new incarnation, has partnered with Picture House. Celebrating 18 years of show casing Aussie Films in London, the new partnership gives the organizers a broader outlet at various…

A film review from East End Film Festival – The Hot Potato

A film review from East End Film Festival – The Hot Potato

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  Since starting in 2000, the East End Film Festival has established its self as one of the UK’s Largest Film Festivals attracting an annual audience of over 30,000. Showcasing work from local and international filmmakers to London’s most dynamic quarter, the festival boasts an array of international premieres and…

Celebrating women film makers at Hackney Picture House

Celebrating women film makers at Hackney Picture House

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Sun 11 March 4pm Hackney Picturehouse, Mare Street London E8 1HE US 1926 Dir. William Beaudine 84min. Evil Mr Grimes (Gustav von Seyffertitz) runs a baby farm deep in the heart of a hideous swamp. The children are housed in squalid conditions with only quick-witted orphan Molly (Mary Pickford) there…

Screening and discussion – In the Land of the Free

Screening and discussion – In the Land of the Free

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Angola 3 Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and  Robert King, have spent almost a century between them in solitary confinement in  Angola, the Louisiana State  Penitentiary. Herman and Albert are still held in solitary confinement today  after thirty eight years.  How could this be? In America…In Obama’s America? The film will…

From Hackney to Vodka Baron (well almost)

From Hackney to Vodka Baron (well almost)

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He’s been described as  ‘Borat in reverse’ but Dan Edelstyn is a one of a kind.  Adventurer, visionary, documentary and film maker, entrepreneur, self proclaimed time traveler and fantasist.  Fantasist?  Young Edelstyn believed he could meet up with the father he lost at a young age, through time travel. But…

The First Annual Hackney Film Festival: 18 – 19 September

The First  Annual Hackney Film Festival:  18 – 19 September

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If you need confirmation on how alive the arts are in Hackney Borough, you only have to look at the array of festivals being held in various parts of Hackney over the summer. So it is only fitting that Hackney has its own film festival.  The 1st annual Hackney Film…