The East End Film Festival showcases hot new talent and homegrown films alongside larger independent releases to inform and inspire a new generation of filmmakers and cinema-goers and to raise the profile of this vibrant and diverse area - London’s East End. 

01.05.2008

Well the festival is over for another year and this was without a doubt the most successful festival yet! - with a dizzying mix of events, screenings, gig’s and parties all over East London, the streets were literally buzzing with filmmakers, film fans and festival volunteers! The festival team is now well and truly exhausted - we would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who took part in and came along to the festival and made it such a vibrant and memorable week.

So tell all your friends about it and we’ll see you next year!

25.04.2008

Alexander Snelling and Kirsty Allison win the Best New UK Feature 2008 for their film TANTRIC TOURISTS. They picked up their prize of full DVD authoring from the prize sponsors The Pavement at the EEFF closing night gala. The closing night was an amazing success with Noble and Silver hosting the most hilarious award ceremony ever witnessed!

The Audience Award for Best Short 2008 went to Hilary Powell for THE GAMES and the Jury Award for Best Short 2008 went to Lucia Ashmore for ERICS SECRETS, a beautiful crafted short featuring 91 year old local Hackney resident Dr Eric Frankel.





Then we all headed down the road for some live music from THE CESARIANS and a bit of turntable action from our very own PHILIP ILSON

22.04.08

Only three days left!.............

............But there’s still plenty of films to see and parties to go to.

CLOSING NIGHT GALA:
With, comedic considerations for the modern filmgoer, presented by Perrier Award winning (nobleandsilver).’ The chances of survival are quite high.  The night also includes the best short films of the festival, free drinks and after-show party at Visions video bar with live music from The Cesarians.

Tickets can be booked now on 0207 241 9410

(Rio Cinema)

The evening includes the screening of the shortlisted films up for the award of Best Short 2008 with:

THE RECORDING
UK | 14 min | Director: Annetta Laufer
A depressed pregnant woman finds a dictaphone on which a young Asian man has recorded a journey.  By following the recording she embarks on her own journey and learns more about the young man, herself and her relationship.

PETER AND BEN
UK | 10 min | Director: Pinny Grylls
Peter and Ben tells the touching and quirky story of how two drop-outs form an unusual and lasting friendship.

BATHYSPHERE
UK | 6 min | Director: Michaela Nettell
Ghostly light projections captured within delicate glass bubbles describing a strange, subconscious world where memories and daydreams lie.

FOREST MURMURS
UK | 10 min | Director: Jonathon Hodgson
An animated exploration of Epping Forest’s sinister past sparks off a journey into the dark side of the artist’s mind.

ERIC’S SECRETS
UK | 5 min | Director: Lucia Ashmore
What keeps you going until you are 91? Dr Eric Frankel reflects on the last 53 years in his house with his wife, and reveals his secrets of marriage and cooking.

JOHN AND KAREN
UK | 4 min | Director: Matthew Walker
John the polar bear apologises to Karen the penguin over some tea and biscuits.

We will also be announcing the award for Best UK First Feature 2008. The nominees are:

THE WAITING ROOM – London Premiere
Rich Mix April 17 7pm
110 mins | UK | 2007 | Dir: Roger Goldby | Prod: Sarah Sulick | Screenplay: Roger Goldby

THE INHERITANCE
Rio Monday April 21 5.45pm
62 mins | UK | 2006 | Dir: Charles Henri Belleville | Prod: Tim Barrow|

MOUTH TO MOUTH
Cineworld West India Quay April 21 8.30pm (??)
101 mins | UK/Germany | 2005 | Dir: Alison Murray | Prod: Anne Beresford and Judy Tossell | Screenplay: Alison Murray

SAXON – London Premiere
Rich Mix Monday 21 April 8.30pm
92 min | UK 2007| Dir/writer: Greg Loftin | Prod: Elise Valmorbida

TANTRIC TOURISTS – World Premiere
Genesis Friday 18 April 8.00pm
Dir/Prod/Editor Alexander Snelling Prod: Kirsty Allison

18.04.2007

We’re off an running! Opening night was a huge success with everyone enjoying ‘The Waiting Room’ followed by a thoroughly entertaining Q&A with Director Roger Goldby and star Ralf Little. This was all followed by a fantastic night of eating, drinking and dancing at the newly opened Beach Blanket Babylon, Shoreditch.
Tickets are selling fast for our Closing Night Gala which also promises to be a great night of films and comedy hosted by the Perrier Award winning comedians Noble and Silver [see events 24th April]

12.04.08

Mobile Movie Workshop
East end Film Festival in partnership wih LeeValley Park Authority ran a weekend workshop at the Lee Valley Athletics centre. Groups of teenagers took part in the workshops over the weekend and will be screening the results at the New Media New Talent Day at The Brady Centre on Saturday 19th April.

http://www.itvlocal.com/london/londonlife/?player=LON_LondonLife_15&void=178267

Scoot´N´Shoot

09.04.2008

Saturday’s Scoot and Shoot was a revving success with all the teams managing to successfully complete the filmmaking challenge in the allotted 24 hours. Look out for the Awards Ceremony and film screening of the entries on Sunday April 20 in the Rich Mix at 7.30pm, and see which lucky team gets to ride home victorious with the top prize of a brand spanking new scooter courtesy of Motoden.

The competition begun on Saturday 5 April on Brushfield Street in the heart of Spitalfields. Everyone joined in counting down to the 10am start and from then on, each team had just 24 hours to plan, shoot, edit, and submit a three minute film. Emilio Costa of Motoden said: “We are delighted to be able to back the East End Film Festival Scoot ‘n’ Shoot contest with Suzuki GB.”

The Scoot ‘n’ Shoot 24-Hour film challenge was covered by ITV Local. The story was broadcast as part of ITV London Tonight 4:20pm bulletin on Saturday 5 April, and is viewable online at: http://www.itvlocal.com/london/londonlife/?player=LON_LondonLife_15&void=173498

EEFF Newsletter No.2
issue date 02/04/2008

With the Festival brochure now hitting the streets, the EEFF is well and truly underway. There’s way too many highlights happening across the 7 days and 10 venues to list here, but here’s a little taster of what’s coming up:

Opening night glitz and glamour - The stars will be out in force on the red carpet with the London Premiere of Oscar nominee Roger Goldby’s THE WAITING ROOM starring Anne-Marie Duff, Ralf Little, Rupert Graves, Daisy Donovan and Phyllida Law.

2 new Ellen Page films - Including multi-screen mayhem with THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS from the cinema screen to the VJ set as Tracey gets remixed by VJ Buzzard Buzzard and a live soundtrack by Youthmovies.

Watch out gentlemen - Polish desperate housewives on the loose!! This Polish box office record breaker LEJDIS (the follow up film to the equally popular Testosteron) gets it’s UK Premiere with visiting Director and FREE Polish beer!

East Meets East - we champion amazing new films from Estonia, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, and beyond, kicking off with Ulrich Seidl’s powerful IMPORT EXPORT- a story of migration across Europe and the struggle of daily life in the Ukraine.

Euro-Teens galore! We welcome young Czech actress Sandra Nováková (Pusinky- DOLLS) and young Estonian director Ilmar Raag (THE CLASS) to the Festival; check out our panel discussion on the new Eastern European youth culture; and join post-rockers Spork as they soundtrack live music to a Russian teenage lesbian YouTube phenomonen.

Documentary mayhem 1 - every filmmaker in East London wants to make a documentary, so as well as two shorts programmes telling us about Epping Forest, Ilford, the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, the Stratford Olympic site, the A13, guerilla gardening in Hackney, graffitti writing in Shoreditch and much much more, we get together with FourDocs to discuss why the local populations are so in love with documenting their surroundings.

Documentary mayhem 2 - learn about the assassination of Robert Kennedy, real life gangsters in Bollywood, the BNP in Barking, the New York 70’s and 80’s art scene centering around Robert Mapplethorpe, and the landlady of East End art hang-out The Golden Heart in the world Premiere of SANDRA. Part of a full selection of feature docs across the 8 days.

Radio 2’s Bob Harris -Whispering Bob comes East to introduce a doc on London’s burgeoning Americana scene, WE DREAMED AMERICA, followed by an exclusive live gig featuring Kitty Daisy & Lewis and Hey Negrita!

Take a step back in time to the groovy seventies - Join the kids from Whitechapel and East End Channel 1 who made the local 1972 film TUNDE’S FILM, now all grown up with kids of their own. This reunion screening will bring together filmmakers and actors from the original production now without their distinctive afros, hippie longhair and 70s fashion.

Micheal Nyman - the Oscar winning composer of such masterpieces as THE PIANO, THE END OF THE AFFAIR and Peter Greenaway’s THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT and others, drops in to give us an exclusive showing of his own personal short films and give us a rare insight into the sources of his inspiration and the reasons for his life long relationship with visuals and sound..

But this is a mere taster of the 2008 East End Film Festival; there’s mucho more on offer, so check out the website or pick up a brochure round East London. Tickets are selling fast so you need to get in quick.....