Thu 2 Sept
POP UP CINEMA



GRAND OPENING

6:30–10:00pm

Echoes of the Underground
Lee Harris and Hicham Benassi present a
live Happening with Giles Walker robaots and
prejections of the counter culture history of Portobello Road.
Featuring:
Gold Fish Bowl
Hicham Benassi

Portobello Rocks! MuTATE 09:
One Foot In The Grove
Joe Kargbo 40 minutes U
In November 2009, an art ‘collective’ primarily
consisting of Mutoid Waste and Coroy House put on an
art exhibition under the westway 2010. This documentary features
interviews, behind the scenes “look”and cutting edge soundtrack!
Art Documentaries. London

7.30pm

Virgin Media Shorts is all about shining a light
on Britain’s best film makers and giving them
the biggest possible arena to showcase their
work. The short film competition awards one
Grand Prize winner each year with £30K film
funding and a chance to work with the UKFC
and Virgin Media on their next film.
At PFF, Virgin Media Shorts showcases the 12
shorts up for this year’s Grand Prize and will
set the stage with last year’s winning film, the
BAFTA nominated, Mixtape. Each film is 2
minutes and 20 seconds!
www.virginmediashorts.co.uk 8pm

WORLD PREMIERE
SSDD: Same Shit Different Day
Greg Hall 87 minutes 15
A slice of life in the east end of London following Lee,
recently released from prison, and Phil, a squatter and
former rider, who both work night shift together.
Drama. London
Writer / Director Greg Hall came to early notice with
his no-budget debut feature film “The Plague” (2004)
when aged only 22. Receiving the inaugural Katrin
Cartlidge Foundation Award from Mike Leigh at the
Sarajevo Film Festival, who described it as “very
exciting 21st Century cinema”.“Kapital” (2007)
his second feature film was a commission by the
Manchester International Festival and a
unique collaboration with renowned composer Steve
Martland as a film-to-music project. Currently
completed third feature “SSDD Same Shit Different
Day” (2010), Greg Hall has also acquired the film
rights to anarchist Ian Bone’s autobiography “Bash
The Rich” which he is currently adapting for the
screen. www.brokebutmakingfilms.com

Love Does Grow on Trees
Bevan Walsh 10 minutes 15
A coming of age comedy about a teenage boy whose
life is thrown into chaos when he discovers adult
magazines, girls and the embarrassment that goes
with both. It’s a sweet, nostalgic story of lust, guilt and
ultimately - first love. Drama.

The Addiction Trilogy
Harald Schleicher 15 minutes 18
The experimental found-footage project The Addiction
Trilogy deals with addiction and its depiction in motion
pictures. The first part deals with smoking, the second
part with alcohol and the third with drugs.
Art. Germany


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