With his debut short film tipped for an Oscar, Hackney based screenwriter James Lucas offers a preview of his latest script about an East London motorcycle gang
Yearly celebration of Argentine cinema to feature films by some of the country’s most promising directors
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
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?
