A feature film that is to be shot in New Cross and has been funded through crowd sourcing will begin shooting this month. ‘Wasted’ will be filmed mainly in Telegraph Hill, New Cross, and is the brainchild of local director Mark Gillis. It follows a man desperately trying to keep…
Physicist Brian Cox, Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker, and Don’t Look Now director Nicholas Roeg are among the celebrity names speaking at the Winter Shuffle film festival, which kicked off yesterday in Mile End. Curated by Trainspotting director Danny Boyle, the 10-day-long event follows the success of his sold-out summer festival…
Hackney band Rudimental have won the ‘Breakthrough Act of the Year’ at the 10th annual UK Festival Awards on Monday evening. The band received the award at a ceremony in Camden’s Roundhouse, beating Mercury nominees Disclosure and Bastille. The winning quartet won for their performances at a number of festivals…
A Hackney-based artist has won the UK’s prestigious Turner Prize 2013 at the ceremony in Northern Ireland yesterday evening. Laure Prouvost, a graduate from Goldsmiths, was named ‘a surprise winner’ after she beat high-profile artists Tino Seghal and David Shrigley to win the prize. Prouvost, 35, is the second…
A Goldsmiths University graduate was celebrated at the Broadcast Journalism Training Council Awards last night. Sean Mullervy, 27, MA Radio student 2012-13, was presented with Best Radio News Feature at the national awards held at Coventry University for his investigative feature, “Ziggurat”. The piece explored the reappearance of an ancient Mesopamian building…
Key figures from the arts came together on Monday to discuss the future direction of the arts during the annual general meeting of the Independent Theatre Council (ITC). The Reaching Out Conference, held at The Albany theatre and community arts hub in Deptford, featured an eclectic range of guests involved…
Lewisham’s Amersham Arms played host to some the world’s finest musicians as the EDF London Jazz Festival came to town this week. Tuesday evening saw Sam Bullard’s People & Places play “Cockermouth Girls” to an audience made up of a mélange of south London locals – both young and old; jazz diehards and the merely […]
A women’s short film festival gets underway at its new residency in Hackney on Tuesday evening. The UnderWire Film festival, which aims to give women working in the industry a bigger platform to showcase their work, is now in its fourth year and has moved to The Yard Theatre in…
On the walls of the theprintspace gallery in Kingsland Road, a quote is written in bold black characters. “First and foremost the Revolution is about loving.” Under it, a picture of a soldier waving a machine gun hangs close to another of a group of children smiling, in a chaotic and…
The London Jazz Festival, sponsored by EFG International, returns to the capital this Friday, bringing a number of internationally renowned musicians to the city for a range of one off events over ten days. We have picked six of the hottest events happening along the East London Line. With two…
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