Portobello
Film Festival 2006
(3 – 23 August)
Highlights
Please note ALL EVENTS ARE FREE ADMISSION.
Festival venues - map
As well as nearly three weeks of non stop screenings
of new Independent short films at at least two venues
every night (Westbourne Studios and Inn On The Green)
highlights of this years Portobello Film Festival- "the
biggest celebration of independent films in Europe (The
Independent)" – , which this year features
music, comedy, fashion and visual arts as well as film,
include:
3
THURSDAY
Thu 3 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
Opening Party.
Video Art including
History Of French Video Art (7pm) and Portobello Market
Traders Fashion show (8.30pm) coordinated by Bella Freud.
Thu 3 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Comedy with Rob Newman
A History Of The World Backwards.
4
FRIDAY
Fri
4 August/Westbourne Studios:
6–11pm
Movies with sexual content
including Made In Secret (6pm), documentary about the
worlds only feminist porn collective, and Beyond Criticism
(9pm), documentary about notorious Amsterdam Wet Dream
Festival.
Fri 4 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Music & Comedy
Alabama 3 playing acoustic
set as Larry Love Showband in Benefit for Prisoners
Abroad.
5
SATURDAY
Sat 5 August/Westbourne
Studios:
2–11pm
LONDON FREE SCHOOL REUNION
AND BOYLE FAMILY
from 6pm films by Peter Whitehead (Tonite Lets All Make
Love In London about swinging 60s) and Boyle Family,
including early Pink Floyd lightshows.
Sat 5 August/Inn On the Green:
2–11pm
DRAMA & COMEDY/MOSTLY
FILMS FROM LONDON
6
SUNDAY
Sun 6 August/Westbourne
Studios:
2–11pm
SKETCHES OF SPAIN
From 2pm a whole day
of short films from Spain, including work from Madrid
Film School.
Sun 6 August/Inn On the Green:
2–11pm
DRAMA, COMEDY, ART,
ANIMATION, & DUTCH SHORTS.
Special Showcase From
The Video College
7
MONDAY
Mon 7 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
21st Century Documentaries
including Rootical about photographer Charlie Phillips
and Portobello in the early 60s, and Le Troisieme Monde
from France about an Englishman and a Frenchman rowing
the Atlantic.
7 August/Inn On The Green: from 8. Gaz Mayall’s
Rockin Blues featuring live set from The Trojans.
Mon 7 August/Inn On the Green:
7pm
Gaz Mayall and The Trojans.
Live set from legendary local Ska band and DJ set from
superstar Gaz. Also featuring ska and reggae beats from
Django B and I-Shen.
8
TUESDAY
Tue 8 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
SUPER SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
SHOWCASE &
FILM LONDON ARTISTS MOVING IMAGE NETWORK
7pm Film London present Artists Moving Image Network
and video art from no.w.here plus (8.30pm) Super Shorts
Soho Short Film Festival Greatest Hits.
Tue 8 August/Inn On the Green:
6–11pm
COUNTERCULTURE FEATURE
FILMS
9
WEDNESDAY
Wed 9 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
SOMETHING FROM BRAZIL/
HOT SHORTS FROM SOUTH AMERICA
7.20pm Something From Brasil, selection of hot shorts
from Brasil, and at 10pm World Premiere of Rice N Peas
new shock doc from Sierra Leone, Man Dem Nor Glady’O,
about ravages caused by diamond industry.
Wed 9 August/Inn On the Green:
6–11pm
AN EVENING OF ART, COMEDY,
& DRAMA
10
THURSDAY
Thu 10 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
HALLOWEEN SOCIETY &
ANIMATION NIGHT
7.30pm Halloween Society present Rockumentary Brittanica
featuring short films about Pete Docherty. UNKLE and
UK Grime. At 9pm World Premiere of trailer for Bolex
Brothers Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers animation.
Thu 10 August/Inn On the
Green:
7pm
Slam Poetry
Competition hosted by Tony Allen, with big cash prize.
11
FRIDAY
Fri 11 August/Paradise
Bar:
6–11pm
Short films
Fri 11 August/Inn On the
Green:
7pm
Tavistock Festival Awareness
Raising Event.
Preview of September’s free event in Tavistock
Square featuring Screaming Violets, Kate Meranda, The
Johnsons, Ros, Azbo, and a very very Special Surprise
Guest.
Fri 11 August/Portobello
Green Cinema Circus Tent:
7pm Glastonbury (Julien
Temple).
12
SATURDAY
Sat 12 August/Portobello
Green Cinema Circus Tent:
3pm Garfield
5pm
Madagascar
7pm
Bob Marley & The Wailers Live At The Lyceum
Sat
12 August/Paradise Bar:
6–11pm
DRAMA & DOCUMENTARIES.
Sat 12 August/Inn On The
Green:
7pm
Music and films from Warwick
Castle/Rough Trade
scene in the 80s including on rare films Sinead O Connor,
Vic Reeves and Joe Strummer.
Sat 12 August/Portobello
Green:
2-8.30pm
DJ Splackavelli Softtouch
from drive time radio, Beat FM 101.9 will be playing
Live from 2pm till 830 pm.
With giveaways. He will take you through the years of
music and feature the history of reggae including live
tracks from the Marleys.
13
SUNDAY
Sun 13 August/ Inn On the
Green:
2–11pm
DOCUMENTARY DAY
Sun 13 August/Portobello
Green Circus Tent:
Johnny Depp double bill
3pm Pirates Of The Caribbean
1,
5pm Charlie and The Chocolate
Factory.
7pm Syriana.
Sun 13 August/Paradise
Bar:
6–11pm
21ST CENTURY DOCUMENTARY
Sun 13 August/Portobello
Green:
2-8.30pm
DJ Splackavelli Softtouch
from drive time radio, Beat FM 101.9 will be playing
Live from 2pm till 830 pm.
With giveaways. He will take you through the years of
music and feature the history of reggae including live
tracks from the Marleys.
14
MONDAY
Mon 14 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
Filmmmakers Against War
including (6.30pm) Rob Newman’s History Of Oil
and (9pm) Emily Woof’s Between The Wars.
Mon 14 August/Inn On The Green: Music Videos and Film
London funding information session (6.30pm)
Mon 14 August/Inn On the
Green:
6–11pm
MUSIC VIDEOS & DOCUMENTARIES
&
FILM LONDON SEMINAR
15
TUESDAY
Tue 15 August/ Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
International Environmental
Film Festival (from
6pm).
Tue 15 August/Inn On the
Green:
6–11pm
DRAMA & COMEDY.
16
WEDNESDAY
Wed 16 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
Portobello Irish Film
Festival
featuring shorts from Network Ireland and Irish Language
Films from Cork Film Festival.
Wed 16 August/Inn On The
Green:
6–11pm
Video Café
choose your own film
from a selection of over 50 hours of the best of contemporary
independent filmmaking.
Wed 16 August/Westbourne
Grove Church:
6-11pm
IDEAS IN MOTION ECOLOGY
FESTIVAL CONTINUES
International Environmental Film Festival
17
THURSDAY
Thu 17 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
BLACK EYE NIGHT
DRAMA & COMEDY
Thu 17 August/Westbourne
Grove Church:
7pm
Human Rights Watch Film
Festival
present Conversations On A Sunday Afternoon (Khalo Matabane)
about life for refugees in South Africa today.
Thu 17 August/Inn On The
Green:
7pm
Ken Campbell’s Eccentric.
Solo show from top alternative comedian.
18
FRIDAY
Fri 18 August/Westbourne
Studios:
6–11pm
GOING DUTCH.
Dutch Films from Film Holland, and at 8pm Top iconoclastic
Dutch video artists Arno Coenen introduces a selection
of his work
Fri 18 August/Inn On The
Green:
7pm
Space Ritual and The Final
Programme.
Nik Turner plays Hawkwinds Space Ritual and (7pm) Jenny
Runacre introduces Michael Moorcocks cult classic The
Final Programme.
19
SATURDAY
Sat 19 August/Westbourne
Studios:
2–11pm
HAVING A LAUGH: COMEDY
FILMS
AT THE PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL
20
SUNDAY
Sun 20 August/Westbourne
Studios:
2–11pm
Grand Finale
closing Party featuring some of the best films submitted
to the Festival this year including Silvestre Jacobi’s
Roots Time at 4pm, and top AV artists Addictive TV in
the atrium.
This year’s Festival focuses on Portobello’s
rollercoaster cultural history since the 50s with the
programme featuring Portobello Psychogeographical History
1956 – 2006 by Tom Vague, and photographic exhibitions
of Portobello in the 50s, 60s and 70s by Charlie Phillips,
John Hoppy Hopkins and Ron Reid at the Inn On The Green,
and The Westbourne pub. Also featured are local grafitti
artists Alex Martinez at The Muse on Portobello Road,
and Ripoulin (French poster artists) and Joe Rush (Glastonbury
Festival) at Westbourne Studios, and Gordon McHarg at
the Subway Gallery.
Portobello Green, Thorpe Close, W10
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Rd, W10
Inn On The Green, 3 Thorpe Close, W10
Paradise, 19 Kilburn Park Rd, W10
Westbourne Grove Church (corner of Ledbury Rd) W10
The Westbourne, 101 Westbourne Park Road, W2
Subway Gallery, Edgware Rd/Harrow Rd pedestrian underpass,
W12
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