Portobello Carnival Film Festival 2008



Prize winners and full programme



Wanna Be Free/Opening Night


Kelly Osbourne/The Town That Boars Me


Andrew Logan/History Of Alternative Miss World


Westbourne Studios


Molly Parkin & Sandford Lieberson/Performance & Screenwriting


Ray Myndiuk/London Filmmakers Convention


Nick Goldsmith/Son Of Rambow


Flashmob/Video Cafe


Crapparazi/Shok-1


Horror Film Makers


Cash & Curry Cast & Crew


Portobello Film Festival volunteers working hard


Delegate Centre/Westbourne Studios


(Photos by Jeanne N'Dour)

 

 


   

Portobello Film Festival
Awards 2008





BEST FILM
The Cleaner (Noel Kearns)



Best Film 2008 Prize: Final Cut Studio 2
Final Cut Studio 2 is the must-have upgrade to Apple’s award-winning video and audio production suite. With six powerful applications, each designed specifically for editors, Final Cut Studio 2 puts everything you need in a single box.


BEST DIRECTOR
Dean Puckett (The Elephant In The Room)



Best Director Prize
2 Free Days Post Production at Portobello Post!
The winner will receive 2 full days free post production with experienced Senior Editor John Holloway, to do whatever they want, whether it is offline or online editing, colour grading, DVD design and authoring or encoding for web/other formats. At our facility on Portobello Road, we have an 8 core MAC with FCP Studio 2 (as well as Avid Media Composer) capable of handling all SD, HD and RED (2k) projects and also an AVID Symphony suite, capable of handling any SD work. Please visit our website, www.portobellopost.com, to find out more about us and our work.


BEST ANIMATION
Sweeper (Benjamin Collins and Matthew Esterhuizen)
Prize: A roll of unexposed 35mm film donated by Hammer & Tongs


BEST ART FILM
Circumstances (Marco Sanges)


BEST COMEDY
36 Ways To Get Fired Thanks To John Howard (Shane T Hall)


BEST DOCUMENTARY
Flowers Of Rwanda (David Munoz)


BEST MUSIC FILM
Subberlin (Tillman Kunzel)


BEST FOREIGN FILM
Because There Are Things You Never Forget (Lucas Figueroa)


SPECIAL AUDIENCE AWARDS
#402 (Paul and Emma Blackwood)
Cash And Curry (Sarjit Bains)




 

 


   

Portobello Film Festival
ORIGINS OF FILMS



Origins of Films Screened at PFF 2008

London 241
Britain 119
USA 38
Germany 31
Spain 26
Holland 21
Canada 21
Italy 20
France 18
Australia 15
Russia 12
Brazil 8
Ireland 8
Swedish 7
Turkey 5
Switzerland 5
Belgium 4
Japan 4
Portugal 4
Indian 4
Greek 3
Austria 3
Sri-Lanka 3
New Zealand 3
Nigeria 3
Israel 2
Polish 1
South Africa 1
Estonia 1
Iran 1
Hungary 1
Serbia 1
Slovakia 1
Croatia 1
Argentina 1
Tunisia 1


 

 


   

Portobello Film Festival 2008
28 August - 14 September
HIGHLIGHTS




Portobello Film Festival 2008 premieres over 700 new films - features, shorts, documentaries, music films and animation – from all over the world at Westbourne Studios- Acklam Road W10, The Tabernacle – Powis Square, W11, and the Inn On The Green – Thorpe Close W10, from 28 August to 14 September.

Entry to all events is free.“The biggest independent film festival in Europe” is an 18 day showcase for the future of cinema: see tomorrow’s films today. Full programme will be published on www.portobellofilmfestival.com at the beginning of August.




28 AUGUST, WESTBOURNE STUDIOS

8pm Babylon (Franco Rossi) 100 mins 15
Mechanic and part-time sound system ‘toaster’ Blue (Brinsley Forde) and his Ital Lion crew are looking forward to a sound clash competition with rival outfit Jah Shaka. But as the event approaches, Blue’s personal life begins to unravel. Fired from his job by his racist boss (Mel Smith), he begins to suspect his girlfriend is cheating on him. A further series of unpleasant racist incidents - including Blue being chased, brutally beaten and arrested by a group of plain-clothes policemen - culminates in Ital Lion’s lock-up garage being broken into and their sound equipment being destroyed. Increasingly angered and alienated by what he perceives to be society’s rejection of his race and his culture, Blue is compelled to respond by fighting fire with fire.

Directed by Franco Rosso (Dread Beat an’ Blood), co-written (with Rosso) by Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia), and photographed by two-time Oscar® winner Chris Menges (The Mission; The Killing Fields), Babylon is a raw and incendiary film-making at its best.

9.40pm The Town That Boars Me (Ben Charles Edwards) 10 mins 15
The latest 15 minute indie film written and directed by rising star Ben Charles Edwards and produced by Glass Loves and Shoot To Kill. A modern musical, shot in B-movie style, it features a cast that includes a host of famous names, including Kelly Osbourne, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sadie Frost, Natt Weller, Zandra Rhodes, Andrew Logan, Dee C Lee and Jodie Harsh.
The Town That Boars Me tells the tale of a Pig Boy created by the lonely town butcher (Andrew Logan). The Pig Boy, now banished from the town, returns at nightfall to torment the local women and satisfy his insatiable fetish for high heel shoes. Starring Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sadie Frost, Jodie Harsh, Zandra Rhodes, Dee C Lee, Natt Weller and Kelly Osbourne as the sadistic beauty pageant judge who will go to any length to keep her precious heels safe!


30 AUGUST, WESTBOURNE STUDIOS

6pm Alternative Miss World Films
Andrew Logan, Jenny Runacre, Sarah Parkin and friends remember the fun and madness of 35 years of Alternative Miss World Competitions. Jes Benstock will preview his new AMW feature film.
AMW - 1972 – Filmed by: Jack Hazan
AMW - 1973 – Filmed by: Derek Jarman
AMW – Wild - 1975 - Filmed by: Marc Balet
AMW – Circus - 1978 - Filmed by: Richard Gayer –
AMW - Royal Imperial - 1981 – Filmed by: After image Channel 4
AMW – Water - 1985 – Filmed by: Series of Alternative Interviews for ‘After Image Magazine’ Productions for ‘Alter image’. Arts magazine for Channel 4.
AMW - Water - 1985 –Filmed by: Wolfgang Ebert – ZDF Germany
AMW – Earth - 1986 - Filmed by: After image Channel 4
AMW - Air – 1991 - Filmed by: Colin Clarke
AMW – Fire- 1995 – Filmed by: Rebel Penfold Russell (37 Min)
AMW – Void - 1998 - Filmed by: Rebel Penfold Russell
AMW – Universe -2004 – Filmed by: Jes Benstock


31 AUGUST, THE TABERNACLE

7pm Sandy Lieberson, Molly Parkin and Robert Chilcott in Unsung Heroes, a panel discussion and Q&A about the essential but neglected art of writing screenplays, followed by Performance (set in Powis Square and produced by Sandy Lieberson).


3 SEPTEMBER, WESTBOURNE STUDIOS

7pm Portobello Film Festival 2008 present Tongsville.
Tongsville is a retrospective evening of work produced by the celebrated collective, Hammer and Tongs.
Always quirky, humorous and original, Hammer and Tongs have consistently produced a very high standard of work, whether it be music videos, commercials, short films or very recently, feature films, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow.
The evening will include a collection of music videos by Blur, REM, Fatboy Slim, Supergrass and many more, some of their early shorts, commercials and special features.
We will also have copies of Son of Rambow DVD's and other giveaways.There will be a screening of Son of Rambow at the end of the evening.
Hammer and Tongs are an inspiration to filmakers everywhere and this evening will show how much work they have put in to get to where they are now."


5 SEPTEMBER, WESTBOURNE STUDIOS

8pm An Evening With Skanked & Black Eye
CRASS TRANSIT – 50 secs.
What would you do to get to work? Find out as one man’s journey takes a few dramatic turns.
Written & Directed by Jacqui Adams.
THE PASSION OF THE SKANKED! 30 mins.
Prepared to be shocked as weddings, gangsta police, an abusive phone call, PMT Bitch, ghetto college, black history month, awkward gay moments… and possibly the most disgusting sketch ever filmed are brought to you by the urban comedy factory known as the Skank Boyz.
Written & Directed by Joe Crackass and The Skank Boyz.
WORKING LATE – 50 secs.
You know those days when your computer just will not behave?
Written & Directed by Jacqui Adams.
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE SKANKED! 30 Mins.
The Skank Boyz unleashes their yearly comedic trawl through the urban landscape. Filmed especially for the Portobello Film Festival and featuring new characters and sketches such as The Negotiator, Skanked Cribs, Tough Dad, A Day in the Life of the Hoodies and the unveiling of the G-Folk era.
Written & Directed by Joe Crackass and The Skank Boyz.


6 SEPTEMBER, THE TABERNACLE

6pm Time & Judgement:1958 Remembered
Portobello Film Festival 2008 remembers the 1958 Race Riots and how they led to Anti-Racism being on the establishment agenda.
Curated and presented by Colin Prescod and Menelik Shabaz, featuring a lively debate (8pm) on where we are now 50 years on and screenings of Colin Prescod’s You Were Black You Were Out (6pm) & Blacks Britannica (9pm), and Menelik Shabaz’s Step Forward Youth (7pm) and Time & Judgement (10pm).


10 SEPTEMBER, INN ON THE GREEN

6pm A Fete Worse Than Death Returning from the pits of Punkvert's Labiatory for a one off special soirée at this year's Portobello Film Festival, the original "twistado-punkass-kabbaret for discerning dissenters, terraists, crotch watchers and inbetweeny Manson Family wannabees" * - Subterfuge, makes a rare appearance in the nation's Capital.
To celebrate the holy way of the Jester, Ex Gratia Recordings have a hat-trick release on the aforementioned evening of debauchery. A new single from both cabaret punk-funkers - Rude Mechanicals and flagship freaks – Anarchistwood. Ex Gratia turns this into a seedy threesome with the long awaited debut album from performance soloist - Handsum Pete.
At 6.30pm, a premier cut of Punkvert's new creative AV documentary - #402, will be screened. Filmed in collaboration with artists from the Treatment Rooms and Nick Reynolds (Alabama3), the piece follows the events of said individuals as they travelled to Huntsville, Texas for the State execution of Baroness von Reichardt's (Treatment Rooms) friend – John Joe 'Ash' Amador, in summer of 2007.
The last minute addition of Nick to the travel party transformed the outcome of this grizzly display of sanctioned homicide. By Nick's casting of a death mask of Ash, his family, friends and the audience can find some positive light in the darkness of capital punishment VJing for the evening comes from the most (UN) paranoid Kodek (VJ) and Punkvert, whilst PRNWhore and the bastard son of dada and all things decedent, Mr. Johnny Southside spin the vinyl.
For more info on the above event, #402 or the forthcoming Ex Gratia releases, please email punkvert@gmail.com or visit sites below


11 SEPTEMBER, WESTBOURNE STUDIOS

7pm An Evening With YCTV, local youth cable TV station screens some of the films they have made over the past year.


13 SEPTEMBER, WESTBOURNE STUDIOS

9pm World Premiere of Cash and Curry, featuring players from Bend It Like Beckham.


14 SEPTEMBER, WESTBOURNE STUDIOS.

9pm Closing Ceremony with Awards for best films submitted for Portobello 2008.



Portobello Film Festival 2008 Family Films Programme
Supported by RBK&C Early Years
At The Tabernacle, Powis Square, London W11 2AY
Free Entry
No need to book. Just turn up and watch some great movies
All films begin at 3pm
Children must be accompanied by an adult

30 August
RATATOUILLE
U
A scrawny rat named Remy (voice of Patton Oswalt) finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring up sizable controversy in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant in director Brad Bird's madcap computer-animated comedy.

31 August
FLUSHED AWAY
U
From Aardman Features and DreamWorks Animation, the team behind the Oscar winning hits "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and "Shrek," comes the computer-animated comedy Flushed Away, which tells the story of a pampered pet mouse who is flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment in Kensington beneath the streets of London, where he has to learn a whole new way of life.

6 September
VALIANT
U
Animated wartime adventure featuring the voices of Ricky Gervais and Ewan McGregor.

7 September
CARS
PG
From the acclaimed creators of Toy Story, The Incredibles, and Finding Nemo comes a high-octane adventure comedy that shows life is about the journey, not the finish line.

13 September
WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE RABBIT
U
The cheese-loving Wallace and his ever faithful dog Gromit-the much-loved duo from Aardman''s Oscar-winning clay-animated ''Wallace & Gromit'' shorts-star in an all new comedy adventure, marking their first full-length feature film.

14 September
THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE
U
There’s trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom! Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks like Mr. Krabs is the culprit! Though he's just been passed over for the promotion of his dreams, SpongeBob stands by his boss and along with his best pal Patrick sets out on a treacherous mission to Shell City to reclaim the crown and save Mr. Krabs's life.

See www.portobellofilmfestival.com for full details of Portobello Film Festival 2008.



Plus Art from
Snug – creator of the spectacular Kilburn Tube Station mural, Inkie - long time Bristolian cohort of Banksy, and Zeus, whose work is now being sold at establishment auction houses are prime movers in the Street Art phenomenon.
Nick Reynolds is sculpting a special show based the Mexican Day Of The Dead, and premieres a film about casting a death mask for John Joe Amador recently executed in US.
Charlie Phillips displays photographs of Caribbean funerals in Kensal Green Cemetery, North Kensington from the 60s to the present day.


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