24 JULY 2006

Portobello Film Festival 2006
(3 – 23 August)
Highlights

Please note ALL EVENTS ARE FREE ADMISSION.

Festival venues - map

As well as nearly three weeks of non stop screenings of new Independent short films at at least two venues every night (Westbourne Studios and Inn On The Green) highlights of this years Portobello Film Festival- "the biggest celebration of independent films in Europe (The Independent)" – , which this year features music, comedy, fashion and visual arts as well as film, include:


3 THURSDAY


Thu 3 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
Opening Party.
Video Art including History Of French Video Art (7pm) and Portobello Market Traders Fashion show (8.30pm) coordinated by Bella Freud.

Thu 3 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Comedy with Rob Newman
A History Of The World Backwards.


4 FRIDAY


Fri 4 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
Movies with sexual content
including Made In Secret (6pm), documentary about the worlds only feminist porn collective, and Beyond Criticism (9pm), documentary about notorious Amsterdam Wet Dream Festival.

Fri 4 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Music & Comedy
Alabama 3 playing acoustic set as Larry Love Showband in Benefit for Prisoners Abroad.


5 SATURDAY


Sat 5 August/Westbourne Studios:
2–11pm
LONDON FREE SCHOOL REUNION AND BOYLE FAMILY
from 6pm films by Peter Whitehead (Tonite Lets All Make Love In London about swinging 60s) and Boyle Family, including early Pink Floyd lightshows.

Sat 5 August/Inn On the Green:
2–11pm
DRAMA & COMEDY/MOSTLY FILMS FROM LONDON


6 SUNDAY


Sun 6 August/Westbourne Studios:
2–11pm
SKETCHES OF SPAIN
From 2pm a whole day of short films from Spain, including work from Madrid Film School.

Sun 6 August/Inn On the Green:
2–11pm
DRAMA, COMEDY, ART,
ANIMATION, & DUTCH SHORTS.
Special Showcase From The Video College


7 MONDAY


Mon 7 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
21st Century Documentaries
including Rootical about photographer Charlie Phillips and Portobello in the early 60s, and Le Troisieme Monde from France about an Englishman and a Frenchman rowing the Atlantic.
7 August/Inn On The Green: from 8. Gaz Mayall’s Rockin Blues featuring live set from The Trojans.

Mon 7 August/Inn On the Green:
7pm
Gaz Mayall and The Trojans.
Live set from legendary local Ska band and DJ set from superstar Gaz. Also featuring ska and reggae beats from Django B and I-Shen.


8 TUESDAY


Tue 8 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
SUPER SHORT FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE &
FILM LONDON ARTISTS MOVING IMAGE NETWORK

7pm Film London present Artists Moving Image Network and video art from no.w.here plus (8.30pm) Super Shorts Soho Short Film Festival Greatest Hits.

Tue 8 August/Inn On the Green:
6–11pm
COUNTERCULTURE FEATURE FILMS


9 WEDNESDAY


Wed 9 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
SOMETHING FROM BRAZIL/
HOT SHORTS FROM SOUTH AMERICA

7.20pm Something From Brasil, selection of hot shorts from Brasil, and at 10pm World Premiere of Rice N Peas new shock doc from Sierra Leone, Man Dem Nor Glady’O, about ravages caused by diamond industry.

Wed 9 August/Inn On the Green:
6–11pm
AN EVENING OF ART, COMEDY, & DRAMA


10 THURSDAY


Thu 10 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
HALLOWEEN SOCIETY & ANIMATION NIGHT
7.30pm Halloween Society present Rockumentary Brittanica featuring short films about Pete Docherty. UNKLE and UK Grime. At 9pm World Premiere of trailer for Bolex Brothers Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers animation.

Thu 10 August/Inn On the Green:
7pm
Slam Poetry
Competition hosted by Tony Allen, with big cash prize.


11 FRIDAY


Fri 11 August/Paradise Bar:
6–11pm
Short films

Fri 11 August/Inn On the Green:
7pm
Tavistock Festival Awareness Raising Event.
Preview of September’s free event in Tavistock Square featuring Screaming Violets, Kate Meranda, The Johnsons, Ros, Azbo, and a very very Special Surprise Guest.

Fri 11 August/Portobello Green Cinema Circus Tent:
7pm
Glastonbury (Julien Temple).


12 SATURDAY


Sat 12 August/Portobello Green Cinema Circus Tent:
3pm
Garfield
5pm Madagascar
7pm Bob Marley & The Wailers Live At The Lyceum

Sat 12 August/Paradise Bar:
6–11pm
DRAMA & DOCUMENTARIES.

Sat 12 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Music and films from Warwick Castle/Rough Trade
scene in the 80s including on rare films Sinead O Connor, Vic Reeves and Joe Strummer.

Sat 12 August/Portobello Green:
2-8.30pm
DJ Splackavelli Softtouch
from drive time radio, Beat FM 101.9 will be playing Live from 2pm till 830 pm.
With giveaways. He will take you through the years of music and feature the history of reggae including live tracks from the Marleys.


13 SUNDAY


Sun 13 August/ Inn On the Green:
2–11pm
DOCUMENTARY DAY

Sun 13 August/Portobello Green Circus Tent:
Johnny Depp double bill
3pm
Pirates Of The Caribbean 1,
5pm
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.
7pm
Syriana.

Sun 13 August/Paradise Bar:
6–11pm
21ST CENTURY DOCUMENTARY

Sun 13 August/Portobello Green:
2-8.30pm
DJ Splackavelli Softtouch
from drive time radio, Beat FM 101.9 will be playing Live from 2pm till 830 pm.
With giveaways. He will take you through the years of music and feature the history of reggae including live tracks from the Marleys.


14 MONDAY


Mon 14 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
Filmmmakers Against War
including (6.30pm) Rob Newman’s History Of Oil and (9pm) Emily Woof’s Between The Wars.
Mon 14 August/Inn On The Green: Music Videos and Film London funding information session (6.30pm)

Mon 14 August/Inn On the Green:
6–11pm
MUSIC VIDEOS & DOCUMENTARIES &
FILM LONDON SEMINAR


15 TUESDAY


Tue 15 August/ Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
International Environmental Film Festival (from 6pm).


Tue 15 August/Inn On the Green:
6–11pm
DRAMA & COMEDY.


16 WEDNESDAY


Wed 16 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
Portobello Irish Film Festival
featuring shorts from Network Ireland and Irish Language Films from Cork Film Festival.

Wed 16 August/Inn On The Green:
6–11pm
Video Café
choose your own film from a selection of over 50 hours of the best of contemporary independent filmmaking.

Wed 16 August/Westbourne Grove Church:
6-11pm
IDEAS IN MOTION ECOLOGY FESTIVAL CONTINUES
International Environmental Film Festival


17 THURSDAY


Thu 17 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
BLACK EYE NIGHT
DRAMA & COMEDY


Thu 17 August/Westbourne Grove Church:
7pm
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
present Conversations On A Sunday Afternoon (Khalo Matabane) about life for refugees in South Africa today.

Thu 17 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Ken Campbell’s Eccentric.
Solo show from top alternative comedian.


18 FRIDAY


Fri 18 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
GOING DUTCH.
Dutch Films from Film Holland, and at 8pm Top iconoclastic Dutch video artists Arno Coenen introduces a selection of his work

Fri 18 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Space Ritual and The Final Programme.
Nik Turner plays Hawkwinds Space Ritual and (7pm) Jenny Runacre introduces Michael Moorcocks cult classic The Final Programme.


19 SATURDAY


Sat 19 August/Westbourne Studios:
2–11pm
HAVING A LAUGH: COMEDY FILMS
AT THE PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL



20 SUNDAY


Sun 20 August/Westbourne Studios:
2–11pm
Grand Finale
closing Party featuring some of the best films submitted to the Festival this year including Silvestre Jacobi’s Roots Time at 4pm, and top AV artists Addictive TV in the atrium.


This year’s Festival focuses on Portobello’s rollercoaster cultural history since the 50s with the programme featuring Portobello Psychogeographical History 1956 – 2006 by Tom Vague, and photographic exhibitions of Portobello in the 50s, 60s and 70s by Charlie Phillips, John Hoppy Hopkins and Ron Reid at the Inn On The Green, and The Westbourne pub. Also featured are local grafitti artists Alex Martinez at The Muse on Portobello Road, and Ripoulin (French poster artists) and Joe Rush (Glastonbury Festival) at Westbourne Studios, and Gordon McHarg at the Subway Gallery.




Portobello Green, Thorpe Close, W10
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Rd, W10
Inn On The Green, 3 Thorpe Close, W10
Paradise, 19 Kilburn Park Rd, W10
Westbourne Grove Church (corner of Ledbury Rd) W10
The Westbourne, 101 Westbourne Park Road, W2
Subway Gallery, Edgware Rd/Harrow Rd pedestrian underpass, W12




 

 
   
Art Exhibitions At
The Portobello Film Festival 2006


This year’s Festival focuses on Portobello’s rollercoaster cultural history since the 50s with the programme featuring Portobello Psychogeographical History 1956 – 2006 by Tom Vague, and photographic exhibitions of Portobello in the 50s, 60s and 70s by Charlie Phillips, John Hoppy Hopkins and Ron Reid at the Inn On The Green, and The Westbourne pub. Also featured are local grafitti artists Alex Martinez at The Muse on Portobello Road, and Ripoulin (French poster artists) and Joe Rush (Glastonbury Festival) at Westbourne Studios, and Gordon McHarg at the Subway Gallery.

Art programme

 

 






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