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Portobello Film Festival 2010
2 to 19 September
Free admission to all events
Entry to all events at Portobello Film Festival has
been free every year since 1996.
500 Independent Movie Premieres
Portobello Film Festival 2010 premieres more than 500
new independent movies from all over the world. Full
programme will be live on this website around the beginning
of August. Filmmakers will be sent a hard copy of the
programme in the middle of August. This is the state
of the art: hot off the digital editing suites. Filmmakers
are welcome to upload their films onto the Portobello
Film Festival Facebook page or YouTube using Portobello
Film Festival tag.
The Artist’s Eye
Portobello 2010 will feature a number of films
selected and introduced and illustrated by a wide range
of the best living artists including Blek Le Rat, Andrew
Logan, Inkie, Patrick Hughes, Dotmasters, and Matt Clarke
(runner up in TVs School Of Saatchi).
Local historian and psychogeographer Tom Vague has written
an illuminating Portobello Art History Click
here to read Art History W11.
London Film Makers Convention
The Festival will also present the twice yearly
London Film Makers Convention featuring a week of exclusively
London films running simultaneously on 2 screens at
Westbourne Studios. Films shown at the Roundhouse Convention
in May will be screened again in September plus many
more. A unique opportunity for the new generation of
London filmmakers – liberated by democratic digital
technology - to plot the future of the British film
industry and for the public to see how the city sees
the world.
Click
here for PDF of May programme
Click here for May LFMC Report: www.creative-futures.co.uk/blog/quality-film-making-digital-age
United States of Europe
A further week will be dedicated to the best
in contemporary European Cinema featuring wonderful
works from Spain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Turkey,
Holland and even a gay breakdance version of Romeo &
Juliet from Croatia.
Video Cafe
Audience and filmmakers alike can select a film
from the menu and late submissions may be screened at
the projectionist’s discretion. The gong show
bear pit of the Festival. This is Live Cinema.
Saturday and Sunday Morning Pictures
The best new family movies from the likes of
Pixar, Dreamworks, and Universal free at The Tabernacle
and the new Pop Up Cinema.
Pop Up Cinema
Portobello Film Festival will be taking over
the new Pop Up Cinema under the Westway by Portobello
Road from 2 – 19 September screening Festival
highlights, hosting parties, the Artist’s Eye
programme and free family films. See www.portobellopopup.com
Plus 18 days of nonstop documentary, animation, drama,
comedy, music, and art films not to be found anywhere
else.
And special events at The Inn On The Green, The Muse
Gallery, and The Castle.
For further information contact JB or Leona on pff@btopenworld.com.
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