Portobello Film Festival 2003
1 - 21 August 2003
(Full programme)
This year Portobello Film Festival is showing over 600 brand new independent,
mostly short films. Entry to all events is free.
Venues include Westbourne Studios where on Fri 1 August the Festival
kicks off with An Evening With BowieArt, showcasing the best in contemporary
video art sponsored by the great pop star and three very rare films
from John Malkovich and Bella Freud. Sat 2 August sees a programme from
the Italian Cultural Institute. Other highlights at Westbourne Studios
include a Music Video Convention featuring documentaries on Jeff Buckley,
Pink Floyd and Columbian Hip Hop on Sat 9 August, Iranian Films on 10th
August, Final Cut Pro Demonstration on 12 August and a tenth anniversary
for Wall of Sound Records on 14 August.
Other venues include Station Bar, Westway Sports Bar, and the Elgin
on Ladbroke Grove featuring a Tribute To Joe Strummer on 5 August and
the Bikini Bandits on 6 August.
Other highlights include Dance Movies, South African films, Horror section,
“Exit” with John Hurt, “The Last Minute” with
Max Beesley, “You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning” with
Don Letts,, “Fish Don’t Fly” from Bankok
The Festival wraps up with three days in Emslie Hornimans Park Kensal
Road W10 showing kids, comic book and cult feature films, and a special
evening of Film Council Short Circuit Shorts, on a megascreen from 2pm
–10pm on 15, 16 and 17 August.
An Award Ceremony for this year’s best films takes place at The
Electric Cinema on 21 August.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME SUBJECT TO CHANGE
1st Fri.
Westbourne Studios. 242 Acklam Road, London W10
BowieArt/John Malkovich & Bella Freud/Opening Party
6-11pm
2nd Sat.
Westbourne Studios. 242 Acklam Road, London W10
Films from the Italian Cultural Institute
2-11pm
4th
Mon Westway Sports Bar, Crowthorne Road, W10
Video Café
7-11pm
5th
Tues Westway Sports Bar, Crowthorne Road, W10
Video Café
7-11pm
6th
Wed Westway Sports Bar, Crowthorne Road, W10
Video Café
7-11pm
7th Thurs Westway Sports Bar, Crowthorne Road, W10
Video Café
7-11pm
8th Fri Westway Sports Bar, Crowthorne Road, W10
Video Café
7-11pm
5th Tues The Elgin, 96 Ladbroke Grove W11 7-11pm
Tribute to Joe Strummer
6th Wed The Elgin, 96 Ladbroke Grove W11 7-11pm
Bikini Bandits
7th Thurs The Elgin, 96 Ladbroke Grove W11 7-11pm
Extreme Sports
7th Thurs Station Tavern, 41 Bramley Road W11
Outdoor Movie Show/Manga
9-12pm
8th Fri.
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, London W10
Dutch
9th Sat.
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, London W10
Music Video Convention
w/ films by Chris Cunningham, Pink Floyd, White Stripes and Fatboy Slim
10th Sun.
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, London W10
Iranian Shorts
12th Tues
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, London W10
Final Cut Pro
6-11pm
14th Thurs
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, London W10
Wall Of Sound
6-11pm
12th Tues
The Elgin, 96 Ladbroke Grove W11 7-11pm
13th Wed
The Elgin, 96 Ladbroke Grove W11 7-11pm
14th Thurs
The Elgin, 96 Ladbroke Grove W11 7-11pm
14th Thurs
Station Tavern, 41 Bramley Road W11
Outdoor show
9-12pm
15th Fri
Megascreen Emslie Hornimans , Pleasance Park, Kensal Road, W10
Film Council
16th Sat
Megascreen Emslie Hornimans, Pleasance Park, Kensal Road, W10
Kids Films
17th Sun
Megascreen Emslie Hornimans, Pleasance Park, Kensal Road, W10
Kids Films
The Portobello Film Festival is unlike any other. This is filmmaking
of the raw and, sometimes, rude school, passionate, obsessive, and,
above all, experimental.
With a breathtaking programme of over 500 shorts and features, audiences
will experience some of the most innovative and culturally diverse filmmaking
around. Documentaries, music, animation, drama and travel are just some
of the genres featured, others we couldn’t categorise. (Nor would
we want to).
Showing everything from “A Tribute To Joe Strummer” featuring
rare and unseen Clash footage to the best in new Iranian short filmmaking,
from an Extreme Sports selection to an Italian evening, from club films
by Pinkypoos and Kinky Gerlinky to an exciting contemporary South African
programme.
The Festival climaxes with three days of Megascreen madness in one of
Portobello’s superb local parks. This is cinema alfresco at its
best, a superbly programmed festival-within-a-festival, featuring everything
from family films, to classics, to independent shorts. Sunshine guaranteed.
Free-for-all
Entry to the Festival is free. Free to enter, free to leave,
free to think and free to be…
Portobello Film Festival was founded in 1996 as a showcase for Independent
film. One of Europe’s largest, it provides a mutually supportive
platform on which to show films, share ideas and promote grass-root
creativity.Submission policy.
We don’t have one - every film submitted is screened. The festival
accepts either shorts or feature length, on DVD and video. We’re
especially looking for pieces, which challenge cinematic boundaries
but, above all, inspire and motivate others to create film.
Weekly screenings throughout the year.
Find us at portobellofilmfestival.com - where you can download an entry
form. Alternatively, we’re at the Video Café, Westbourne
Studios, Acklam Road, W10, every Wednesday from 6 – 11pm.
Contact Jonathan Barnett on 020 8960 0996 or pff@btopenworld.com
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