International Human Rights Film Festival
Every year some of the capitals best cultural initiatives slip through the net – don’t let this be one of them.
The 11th International Human Rights Festival is at cinemas all over town, pick your favourite and get ready to face up to some of the world’s most pressing news. With the directors of the films present at most screenings for Q&A sessions too, there’s no better chance to find out how to fight for the cause.
African and Discovering Latin America Film Festivals
Directors Abderrahmane Sissako and Lucrecia Martel are on their way to town
“Spoilt, spoilt, spoilt for choice! Not only are some of the best films from Africa and Latin America on the way to our finest cinemas, but many of their directors are on their way to join us too. Mauritanian-born Abderrahmane Sissako will be on hand at the British FiIm Institute to discuss…
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Helpful Links: African Film Fest, DLA Film Fest
It’s Documentary, my dear Watson
Making the best films easier to find
“Docfest, Sheffield’s annual documentary film festival, is a national treasure. But don’t despair if you missed out last week – London’s got plenty of options. Take the new website, www.joiningthedots.tv – an online, pay-per-view library of documentary films…
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Helpful Links: Sheffield DocFest, Joining the Dots , Zoned In , Century of The Self , Toxic , Sharkwater , Art Doc
OneDotZero
The Oscars of audio-visual is at the BFI
“Want to see how far audiovisual technology has come? Look no further than Onedotzero: adventures in moving image. The multi-media showcase has run for 10 years at the Institute of Contemporary Art. It’s brought talents such as directors Chris Cunningham (music videos for Bjork and Aphex Twin); and Spike Jones…
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Helpful Links: OneDotZero
Riverside Studios Cinema
Shira McLeod discusses her resistance against ‘trendy sofas and expensive wine’ cinemas
“So much has happened at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios over the years it’s hard to keep up. A film and TV production venue since its conversion from water-pump factory in 1933, it grew to incorporate comedy, theatre, music and art. Jo Brand and Julian clary; Samuel Beckett and Complicite; Beatles and Rolling Stones; Anthony Gormley and David Hockney; TFI Friday and Top of The Pops
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Helpful Links: Riverside Studios
The Forgotten Season @ The Frontline Club
KATE, Lily, Amy, Pixie and Peaches – the mainstream media
makes sure we’re all on first-name terms.
But what about the Saharawi, the Black Tigers or the people of Nagorno Karabakh? These untold stories are the backbone of a fascinating season of documentary films now on at Paddington’s Frontline Club.
Entitled The Forgotten Season, it is the first time the dynamic talks
venue has hosted a season on such scale…
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The Stars of Locarno
From the Buenos Aires shanties to the Locarno Film Festival, why Argentine film is still worth watching.
“A wave, invariably dubbed the ‘New Wave’ of Argentine film, began to swell in the mid 1990s from a swamp of politically pregnant cinema. Ten years later…
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Helpful Links - www.contemporary-magazine.com , www.julioarrieta.blogspot.com
Jake Auerbach interview at the National Portrait Gallery
Brilliant art documentary series including Lucian Freud and Paula Rego begins.
“The secret lives of some of the art world’s most private personalities will be revealed…
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Helpful Links: www.npg.org.uk/live/preljakeauerbach.asp
Ready for your Rice n Peas?
Ishmael Blaygrove Junior dices with death to document some of the world’s most neglected stories.
“A FEARLESS film-maker is set to unveil his latest documentary at the Portobello Film Festival. Entitled With or Without Fidel, it will be the eighth in a series of groundbreaking global reportages by the Notting Hill-based production company, Rice N Peas…