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Film Festival 2008
28 August - 14 September
ENTRY TO ALL EVENTS IS
FREE.
Portobello Film Festival
2008 premieres over 700 new films - features, shorts,
documentaries, music films and animation – from
all over the world at Westbourne Studios- Acklam Road
W10, The Tabernacle – Powis Square, W11, and the
Inn On The Green – Thorpe Close W10, from 28 August
to 14 September. “The biggest independent film
festival in Europe” is an 18 day showcase for
the future of cinema: see tomorrow’s films today.
2008 SCHEDULE
THU 28 AUGUST
Westbourne Studios
Grand Opening Ceremony
7.30pm Babylon (Franco
Rossi) 100 mins 15
9.10pm The Town That Boars Me (Ben Charles Edwards)
10 mins 15
full programm
FRI 29 AUGUST
Westbourne Studios
6pm – 11pm Death
Of Alternative Music Venues: from The Spitz to GBGB...the
corporations move in.
full programm
SAT 30 AUGUST
Westbourne Studios
7pm Alternative Miss
World Films. 8pm Panel discussion with Andrew Logan
and friends
full programme
SUN 31 AUGUST
The Tabernacle
7pm Sandy Lieberson,
Molly Parkin and Robert Chilcott in Unsung Heroes, a
panel discussion and Q&A about the essential but
neglected art of writing screenplays followed by (8pm)
Performance (set in Powis Square and produced by Sandy
Lieberson).
full programme
Westbourne Studios
International Films
full programme
The Inn On The Green
1pm – 9pm Choose
your film from a menu at the Video Cafe. Get here early
to ensure a slot. 9pm That Samba Thing.
full programme
MON 1 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
American & Avant
Garde Art including films on Andy Warhol (7.30pm) and
Robert Maplethorpe (8.30pm).
full programme
TUE 2 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
Russian films featuring
a special selection from St Petersberg’s Open
Cinema (7.30pm).
full programme
Inn On The Green
Anachron Film Night featuring Japanese Erotic Bondage
films (7pm).
full programme
The Paradise
London Filmmakers Convention,
mainly funky fast shorts (6pm – 11pm)
full programme
WED 3 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
7pm Portobello Film
Festival 2008 present Tongsville.
Tongsville is a retrospective evening of work produced
by the celebrated collective, Hammer and Tongs (nick
Goldsmith and Garth Jennings)
full programme
Inn On The Green
(6pm – 11pm) Music
Videos All Night
full programme
The Paradise
2nd day of London Film
Makers Convention mainly funky fast shorts.
full programme
THU 4 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
(6pm – 11pm) Canadian
& Music films.
full programme
FRI 5 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
8pm An Evening With
Skanked & Black Eye
Top Comedy films all night including 36 Ways to Get
Fired Thanks To John Howard (7pm).
full programme
SAT 6 SEPTEMBER,
The Tabernacle
6pm Time & Judgement:1958
Remembered
Portobello Film Festival 2008 remembers the 1958 Race
Riots and how they led to Anti-Racism being on the establishment
agenda with films and talks from Colin Prescod and Menelik
Shabaz.
full programme
Westbourne Studios
Documentaries (1pm –
11pm)
A Heart From Jenin: a shot dead Palestinan boy's heart
helps save the life of an Israeli girl.
Yellow Gate Woman about the historical political action
at Greenham Common recounted by the women themselves
and Brown Punk by Tricky from Massive Attack (9.30pm).
full programme
SUN 7 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
1pm – 11pm. Indian,
Dutch & Spanish Films including films from Holland
Film (2.20pm) and Spanish (6pm)
full programme
Inn On The Green
International Showcase
with short films from all around the world.
full programme
8 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
6pm – 11pm Multiculture,
including Ishail Blagrove’s This Is Our Country
Too (9pm).
full programme
Inn On The Green
6pm – 11pm Film
Makers Against The War. Yet again another interesting
selection of films for politically aware person, ending
with Nick Broomfield's Battle For Haditha (9.30pm) hopefully
to be introduced by Nick.
full programme
9 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
6pm – 11pm German
Night With a selection from the Munich Film Festival
full programme
Inn On The Green
6pm – 11pm Funky
Fast Shorts including Glastonbury 2008 and Looking For
America
full programme
Paradise
6pm – 11pm London
Film Makers Convention continues
full programme
10 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
6pm – 11pm Animation
Station. State of the art animation all night
full programme
Inn On The Green
6pm A Fete Worse Than
Death Returning from the pits of Punkvert's Labiatory
for a one off special soirée at this year's Portobello
Film Festival, the original "twistado-punkass-kabbaret
for discerning dissenters, terraists, crotch watchers
and inbetweeny Manson Family wannabees" * - Subterfuge,
makes a rare appearance in the nation's Capital.
full programme
Paradise
6pm – 11pm London
Film Makers Convention, mainly shorts
full programme
11 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
7pm An Evening With
YCTV, local youth cable TV station screens some of the
films they have made over the past year. Plus films
made by kids including London's New Equilibrium.
full programme
Westbourne Grove Church
Human Rights Watch Evening
with Darfur Now (7pm) followed by Q&A.
full programme
12 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
6pm – 11pm Horror
& Sci- Fi. The medium – along with documentary
that is made for low budget filmmaking.
full programme
13 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
Crime movies including
Angels Die In The Soil (8.30pm) an Iraqi-Kurdish girl
earns a living selling Iranian soldiers bodily remains.
9pm World Premiere of Cash and Curry, featuring players
from Bend It Like Beckham.
full programme
14 SEPTEMBER
Westbourne Studios
The final day starts
with 'The Last Man Out' which is an eye-witness account
of the World Trade Centre tragedy, from the last living
person to leave the North Tower after saving hundreds
of other peoples lives
9pm Grand Awards Ceremony with Awards for best films
submitted for Portobello 2008. For the first year open
to ALL.
full programme
Best Film 2008 Prize: Final Cut Studio 2
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Best Director Prize
2 Free Days Post Production at Portobello Post!
The winner will receive 2 full days free post production
with experienced Senior Editor John Holloway, to do
whatever they want, whether it is offline or online
editing, colour grading, DVD design and authoring or
encoding for web/other formats. At our facility on Portobello
Road, we have an 8 core MAC with FCP Studio 2 (as well
as Avid Media Composer) capable of handling all SD,
HD and RED (2k) projects and also an AVID Symphony suite,
capable of handling any SD work. Please visit our website,
www.portobellopost.com,
to find out more about us and our work.
Plus FOR ALL THE FAMILY
Portobello Film Festival 2008 Family Films Programme
Supported by RBK&C
Early Years
At The Tabernacle, Powis Square, London W11 2AY
Free Entry
No need to book. Just turn up and watch some great movies
All films begin at 3pm
Children must be accompanied by an adult
30 August
RATATOUILLE
31 August
FLUSHED AWAY
6 September
VALIANT
7 September
CARS
13 September
WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE RABBIT
14 September
THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE
Plus Art from
Snug – creator of the spectacular
Kilburn Tube Station mural, Inkie - long time Bristolian
cohort of Banksy, and Zeus, whose work is now being
sold at establishment auction houses are prime movers
in the Street Art phenomenon.
Nick Reynolds is sculpting a special
show based the Mexican Day Of The Dead, and premieres
a film about casting a death mask for John Joe Amador
recently executed in US.
Charlie Phillips displays photographs
of Caribbean funerals in Kensal Green Cemetery, North
Kensington from the 60s to the present day.
FESTIVAL VENUES
Westbourne Studios
242 Acklam Road
London W10 5JJ
The Tabernacle
Powis Square
London W11 2AY
The Inn On The Green
3 Thorpe Close
London W10
The Paradise
19 Kilburn Lane
London W10 4AE
Westbourne Grove Church
Westbourne Grove
London W11 2RW
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