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
Fictional town of Hill Valley is brought to life by impressive 1950s set and actors larking about as jocks and nerds
Two-minute film about Parkinson’s asks whether ‘control’ is a friend or foe
Swimming with Diana Dors, a collection of short stories penned by Hackney-based author Jeremy Worman, is an elegiac look into family life and the significance of place
Two City analysts who decide to speculate with cocaine become embroiled in a criminal underworld in novel Futures by Stoke Newington author John Barker
Among the 100 features and 80 short films shown during last month’s East End Film Festival a trio of films stood out
Octogenarian Harvey Gould takes East London filmmaking duo Phil Maxwell and Hazuan Hashim on a trip of the Soho of his youth for their new documentary
Hackney writer’s helpline-inspired short film The Phone Call is an emotional tear jerker
