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?
Hackney writer’s helpline-inspired short film The Phone Call is an emotional tear jerker
Hackney’s Finest by Lord of the Rings director Chris Bouchard has already caused a stir with its graphic portrayal of drug dealers and criminality
Sebastian Hofmann returns to the East End Film Festival this year as its director-in-residence and with a clear vision for the future of Mexican cinema
National festival to hold its opening and closing ceremonies at Hackney Picturehouse
Annual celebration of film appeals to the public for pledges as it becomes a Community Interest Company
A priest faces a deadly showdown with a parishioner in John Michael McDonagh’s satirical drama
Author Travis Elborough from Stoke Newington helped to write this poetic documentary looking at London past and present
Finnish docudrama is shown at at The Proud Archivist as part of Cinémathèque, a film night of distinctive world cinema
Childhood memories of pie mash shops led George Steptoe to make a documentary about them
