Zanan TV grew out of the 2009 Green Movement and aims to fight for greater freedom for women in Iran
After learning that their homes were to be demolished, the residents of Samuel House set about making the most of what time they had left there
November is a bumper month for film with three film festivals returning to East London screens
Hard man of film talks about getting his breakthrough role in Scum and growing up in East London
The Japanese phenomenon of short stay ‘love hotels’ is the focus of a new documentary by Hackney’s Native Voice Films
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
