Ryan Gosling ‘all-dayer’ and documentary Under the Cranes are some of the highlights of the first ever London Fields Free Film Festival
A white working class Hoxton boy who converts to Islam and East End arts organisation ACME feature in films to be shown at this year’s London Film Festival
With a new book out, poet Michael Rosen talks about his teaching strategies for parents
Stoke Newington author Lee Jackson dishes the dirt in his new book Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Acclaimed Chinese writer and filmmaker who plies her trade from Hackney talks about her recent novel I am China, a stirring tale of love, exile and political struggle
A Clapton boxer fights to escape the ‘goldfish bowl’ of his existence in Anna Whitwham’s debut novel Boxer Handsome
Acute observations of city life and the author’s poised prose style accompany tale of love, loneliness and trafficking split between Russia and Dalston
Whitechapel production company to run Food for Film initiative at screening of Mass E Bhat, a story about growing up in the slums of Bangladesh
Audiences get to decide whether films are worth watching at the Sir Charlie Darwin Film Festival
From The Krays to Snatch, East London has provided inspiration for countless films about organised crime, but as local identity shifts is it time to consign the genre to history?
A town planner is seduced into a life of decadence in Tom Campbell’s satire on modern urban life
Poet and journalist Miguel Cullen talks about his debut collection Wave Caps
