PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL FREE ENTRY 30 AUGUST– 16 SEPTEMBER 2012 www.portobellofilmfestival.com BLEK LE RAT Entry to all events if FREE and open to all over 18. ALTERNATIVE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL PORTOBELLO ALTERNATIVE PORTOBELLO POP UP CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL LONDON FILM INTERNATIONAL 3 ACKLAM ROAD, W10 5TY 30 Aug – 16 Sept 2012 FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL POP UP CINEMA WESTBOURNE Thu 30 Aug Welcome to the 17th Portobello Film Act Of Memory – 30 Aug 3 ACKLAM ROAD, W10 5TY STUDIOS GRAND OPENING Art at Festival. This year is non-stop new 30 August page 1 Portobello 242 ACKLAM ROAD, W10 5JJ CEREMONY London and UK films at the Pop Up Grand Opening Ceremony POP UP CINEMA Film Festival with The Spirit Of Portobello, docoBANKSY, 31 August page 9 2012 and a feast of international movies at and a new film from Ricky Grover International Shorts Introduction Westbourne Studios courtyard and Pop Up 1 September 9 6:30pm Cinema throughout the Festival, plus 7–19th at 31 August 2 The Muse Gallery – see page 18 for details. Westbourne Studios. Just For You London German Night What We Call Cookies up and coming directors inc Greg Hall & Wayne G Saunders (Natalie Hobbs) 2 mins It’s all very well watching films on the 2 September 10 Exploring various British stereotypes held by internet but nothing beats the live 1 September 2 International Feature Films Americans played out by motifs that are iconicly Are You Local? 3 September 11 American. Comedy. independent frontline film experience. West London film makers Turkish & Canadian Showcase Big Society (Nick Scott) 7 mins 2 September 3 An officer in the British army questions what it means We look forward to welcoming film 4 September 11 to fight for your country when he sees his hometown London Calling: From The Westway To British & USA State Of The Movie Art rife with antisocial behaviour. Mock doc satire. The World makers and general public alike to 5 September 11 Glick’s Last Tour 4 September 3 Films from and about Israel (John Henry Owen) 16 mins enjoy the best film festival in the world The fortunes and misfortunes of Nathan Baldwin and House OF Art 6 September 11 rare film of David Hockney and Bob & Roberta Smith Mr Glick as they traverse the last remains of the - and it’s all free! TV Collective Showcase seaside entertainment circuit. Comedy. Weekend Family Film Shows 4 Urban & Internet focus with Courttia Newland Portobello Film Festival, Unit 11, ACAVA, Home (Constantine Gras) 5 mins 4 FREE features for kids Elegiac exploration of the last house demolished for 54 Blechynden Street, London, W10 6RJ 7 September 12 5 September 5 Sketches In Spain the construction of the Westway. Art. 020 8960 0996 or e-mail [email protected] Horror: Be Very Afraid 8 September 12 Mug (Oliver Lee) 2 mins The con of a con artist. Thriller. Director – Jonathan Barnett 6 September 5 Born In The USA more movies from the US Zombeez (James Atkins) 1 min Programmer – Alan Smithee Having a Laugh 9 September 13 A night of brand new London & UK Comedy films Comedic deodorant commercial in a grindhouse style. Coordinator – Leona Flude More Wonderful Spanish Films Comedy. Troubleshooter – Hugh Gulland 7 September 6 10 September 14 Website – Thomas Szabo London Babylon International Extravaganza Music, films, Julien Temple’s London-Modern Babylon Subscriptions – Geoff Mann 11 September 14 Technician – Greg Edwards 8 September 6 Italian new movie showcase Press – Ken Macdonald UK Indie Showcase brand new UK indie films inc Makers Our Story 12 September 14 Thanks to Michael Wilson (Mountgrange Heritage), Busola Kehinde French Films an evening of Gallic culture (RBKC Early Years), John Hampson (RBKC Arts), Tony Elliott 9 September 6 13 September 14 (TimeOut), Tim Burke (Pop Up Cinema), Mark Blyth (Westbourne Thriller In The Bella English & International Studios), Ros Sinclair (GWS), Anne Windsor (The Muse) and all the Non stop London & UK Thrillers The Spirit Of Portobello 8pm 14 September 15 (Joey Skye) 25 mins film makers and volunteers without whom none of this would be 11 September 7 Portobello is more than a road, it is a state of mind. docoBANKSY (docoBANKSY) 58 mins Michael Horovitz, Spanish Showcase “Who is Banksy”…the identity of the Bristolian art possible. Dramas & Portobello Goes Gay This film captures that and the forces that challenge it. & VIDEO CAFE Documentary. prankster is so far away from being the point featuring best new shorts inc Shades of Beige w/ Michelle Dockery, anymore that it’s likely to elict nothing more than an a short programme of gay movies inc Tandem, and Same Life 15 September 15 Act Of Memory (Jack Ryder) 13 mins eye roll from those in the know. Italy Shortlisted & VIDEO CAFE Jack Ryder’s first film as a director is based on the 12 September 7 short story by Mary Grace Dembeck. The film is set in Big Fat Gypsy Gangster London Stories 16 September 15 England in 1948. The cast includes Claire Skinner, (Ricky Grover) 90 mins VIDEO CAFÉ 2pm–6pm Owen Teale and Anna Massey. Family. After 16 years at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, Britain’s 13 September 8 hardest man is released from prison. Comedy. Dreaming Of A Better World Video Cafe listing 16 An evening of documentaries from a new world perspective inc Dean Puckett’s Crisis In Civilization 14 September 8 THE TABERNACLE The Word On The Street LONDON POWIS SQUARE, W11 2AY FILM MAKERS Documentaries about the Angola 3, Mark Duggan, and Heathcote 5, 6, 7 September 17 CONVENTION Williams on the Royal Family WITH THE SUPPORT OF Caribbean Film Corner 15 September 8 Virgin Media Shorts Showcase & Animation Station THE MUSE The best in contemporary UK animation and the shortlist for the 269 Portobello Rd, W11 1LR Virgin Media very short film competition 7-19 September 18 16 September 8 Outside In – Urban Group Show Grand Awards Ceremony of Portobello Film Festival 2011 TOM VAGUE WRITES page 19 Festival team’s and the public’s favourites from 2012 from 6.30 Portobello Road is the centre of the universe followed at 8.30 by the awarding of Golden Trellicks sculpted by top street artist Zeus to the best films. 10 categories. 10 Trellies! Most programmes run from 6:30pm–10:30pm If you are interested in viewing a specific film GWS – GREAT then please calculate its time by totalling the WESTERN STUDIOS times of the preceding films. 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU ENTRY TO ALL 5, 7, 14 September 16 Big Fat Gypsy Gangster – 30 Aug Art, Architecture and Fashion EVENTS IS FREE 1 portobellofilmfestival.com portobellofilmfestival.com Fri 31 Aug Wild – 31 Aug Sun 2 Sept Times New Roman – 4 Sept JUST FOR YOU LONDON LONDON CALLING: FROM POP UP CINEMA THE WESTWAY TO THE WORLD 6:30pm POP UP CINEMA Lunch Break (Ivaylo Minov) 18 mins Two friends - construction workers - sneak up to a 6:30pm nearby rooftop during their lunchbreak to find a mysterious treasure. Drama. Pitfall (Duncan Roe) 16 mins Alice goes out of her way to help a stranger in need Room 9 (Benjamin Cooper) 7 mins but things are not as they seem. Drama. Exploring ideas of memory, the subconscious, psychology, narrative, psychoanalysis, and the Callum (Michael Van Der Put) 14 mins mystery genre using a circular self-reflexing narrative. When his ex girlfriend is killed at a train station, Thriller. Callum struggles with feelings of guilt, grief, and fear. Drama. 7pm DIRECTOR & ACTOR Willesden and St Marylebone COLLABORATION MASTERCLASS Sea Cadets (Anna Bowman) 10 mins with Award Winning Director Outside it’s a tin church, inside it’s a ship. The TS Gregg Hall Bicester, home of the Sea Cadets. Documentary. Director Greg Hall & Actor Paul Marlon from the Doretti (Alvaro Diaz) 20 mins award winning Broke But Making Films, will be In a psychiatric hospital a man confronts his inner presenting a one hour masterclass giving a unique demons and redeems himself. Drama. insight into their process of collaboration, exclusively for the Portobello Film Festival 2012. Includes a Sat 1 Sept Joanna Vassa (Jason Young) 8 mins Tue 4 Sept screening of award winning short film Bruised. 1821 London. The story of the daughter of Olaudah ARE YOU LOCAL? Equino. Drama. HOUSE OF ART Leave (Talat Gokdemir) 12 mins Lifelong domestic violence towards Maria may finally POP UP CINEMA Jellyfish (Gabriela Dworecki) 7 mins POP UP CINEMA end as she is led towards an opportunity for freedom. Wiley’s hearing loss and sensitivity creates a Drama. sometimes hostile environment around him. Thriller. 6:30pm 6:30pm The Meeting Place The Happiness Test (Bradley Porter) 6 mins For Zeta (Babak Gray) 23 mins (Stuart Parkins) 5 mins Just One Day (Nigel Stewart) 3 mins Anna waits for Johnny to return. Circumstances force Faber’s the wrong side of 40, unhappily married, and A survey in a self help magazine makes couples Always explore and discover and grow, be hungry for her to make an impossible decision. Given an in love with the beautiful Zeta, 15 years his junior. question what really matters in their lives. Drama. knowledge. Peace. Experimental. opportunity to make things right, it’s unlike anything Drama. Juggling (Tim Porter) 17 mins Battlefield (Dermot Daly) 2 mins she could imagine. Romance. Is There Anybody Out There A businessman juggles looking after his mother and Politics can be poetic and poetry can be political. Experimental. Read Me (Massimo Crapanzano) 6 mins (Erlend Palm) 9 mins his bigger ambitions. Drama. Set entirely in the confines of a run down toilet Surreal drama about a girl obsessed with Alice In Latrodectus Mactans cubicle.