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East End Film Festival

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About Me


Welcome to East End Film Festival 2008! Eight extraordinary days of feature films, shorts, workshops and special events featuring fashion, music, visual arts, performance and heritage.

East End Film Festival aims to showcase a high quality range of new and contemporary films that explore the potential of cinema to cross cultural, political and artistic boundaries and that visualise the experience of living and working in the East End of London.

Take a look at our website www.eastendfilmfestival.com or our Facebook Group (just type East End Film Festival into the search engine) to find out more.

My Interests

Specialised Film from around the globe particularly that with a strong connection to the East End and its communities.Shorts, features, domcumentaries, animations

I'd like to meet:

Filmmakers - Submissions Now Open!!! We welcome contributions from anyone or any film with links to the East End, including Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Enfield, Greenwich and Waltham Forest.

We are also interested in films that explore the cultural issues surrounding the various communities of the area.

Early submissions are encouraged; ‘Early Bird’ submissions before December 13th will be entered into a prize draw. The deadline for all submissions is 18th January 2007.

So if you think you're film is right for us and would like to get it screened at one of the biggest international film festivals in the UK, check out the submissions guidelines and form at our website www.eastendfilmfestival.com

Make sure to read the guidelines carefully!

Heroes:

Our patrons!...

Danny Boyle
Director: Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later


Steven Berkoff
Writer, Actor, Director


Nitin Sawhney
Musician, Composer


Pawel Pawlikowski

Director: My Summer of Love


Tony Grisoni

Writer: In This World, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Parminder Vir

OBE Co-Founder and Chair DAWN - Asian Women's Network

Jeremy Wooding

Director: Bollywood Queen

Simon Channing-Williams

Producer: Vera Drake, The Constant Gardener

Stephen Woolley
Producer, Director


Jason Solomons
film critic