| Portobello
Film Festival 2008
28 August - 14 September
HIGHLIGHTS
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.
Entry to all events is free.“The biggest independent
film festival in Europe” is an 18 day showcase
for the future of cinema: see tomorrow’s films
today. Full programme will be published on www.portobellofilmfestival.com
at the beginning of August.
28 AUGUST, WESTBOURNE STUDIOS
8pm Babylon (Franco Rossi) 100 mins 15
Mechanic and part-time sound system ‘toaster’
Blue (Brinsley Forde) and his Ital Lion crew are looking
forward to a sound clash competition with rival outfit
Jah Shaka. But as the event approaches, Blue’s
personal life begins to unravel. Fired from his job
by his racist boss (Mel Smith), he begins to suspect
his girlfriend is cheating on him. A further series
of unpleasant racist incidents - including Blue being
chased, brutally beaten and arrested by a group of plain-clothes
policemen - culminates in Ital Lion’s lock-up
garage being broken into and their sound equipment being
destroyed. Increasingly angered and alienated by what
he perceives to be society’s rejection of his
race and his culture, Blue is compelled to respond by
fighting fire with fire.
Directed by Franco Rosso (Dread Beat an’ Blood),
co-written (with Rosso) by Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia),
and photographed by two-time Oscar® winner Chris
Menges (The Mission; The Killing Fields), Babylon is
a raw and incendiary film-making at its best.
9.40pm The Town That Boars Me (Ben Charles
Edwards) 10 mins 15
The latest 15 minute indie film written and
directed by rising star Ben Charles Edwards and produced
by Glass Loves and Shoot To Kill. A modern musical,
shot in B-movie style, it features a cast that includes
a host of famous names, including Kelly Osbourne, Sophie
Ellis-Bextor, Sadie Frost, Natt Weller, Zandra Rhodes,
Andrew Logan, Dee C Lee and Jodie Harsh.
The Town That Boars Me tells the tale of a Pig Boy created
by the lonely town butcher (Andrew Logan). The Pig Boy,
now banished from the town, returns at nightfall to
torment the local women and satisfy his insatiable fetish
for high heel shoes. Starring Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sadie
Frost, Jodie Harsh, Zandra Rhodes, Dee C Lee, Natt Weller
and Kelly Osbourne as the sadistic beauty pageant judge
who will go to any length to keep her precious heels
safe!
30 AUGUST, WESTBOURNE
STUDIOS
6pm Alternative Miss World Films
Andrew Logan, Jenny Runacre, Sarah Parkin and
friends remember the fun and madness of 35 years of
Alternative Miss World Competitions. Jes Benstock will
preview his new AMW feature film.
AMW - 1972 – Filmed by: Jack Hazan
AMW - 1973 – Filmed by: Derek Jarman
AMW – Wild - 1975 - Filmed by: Marc Balet
AMW – Circus - 1978 - Filmed by: Richard Gayer
–
AMW - Royal Imperial - 1981 – Filmed by: After
image Channel 4
AMW – Water - 1985 – Filmed by: Series of
Alternative Interviews for ‘After Image Magazine’
Productions for ‘Alter image’. Arts magazine
for Channel 4.
AMW - Water - 1985 –Filmed by: Wolfgang Ebert
– ZDF Germany
AMW – Earth - 1986 - Filmed by: After image Channel
4
AMW - Air – 1991 - Filmed by: Colin Clarke
AMW – Fire- 1995 – Filmed by: Rebel Penfold
Russell (37 Min)
AMW – Void - 1998 - Filmed by: Rebel Penfold Russell
AMW – Universe -2004 – Filmed by: Jes Benstock
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 Performance (set in Powis Square and produced
by Sandy Lieberson).
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.
Always quirky, humorous and original, Hammer and Tongs
have consistently produced a very high standard of work,
whether it be music videos, commercials, short films
or very recently, feature films, Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow.
The evening will include a collection of music videos
by Blur, REM, Fatboy Slim, Supergrass and many more,
some of their early shorts, commercials and special
features.
We will also have copies of Son of Rambow DVD's and
other giveaways.There will be a screening of Son of
Rambow at the end of the evening.
Hammer and Tongs are an inspiration to filmakers everywhere
and this evening will show how much work they have put
in to get to where they are now."
5 SEPTEMBER, WESTBOURNE
STUDIOS
8pm An Evening With Skanked & Black Eye
CRASS TRANSIT – 50 secs.
What would you do to get to work? Find out as one man’s
journey takes a few dramatic turns.
Written & Directed by Jacqui Adams.
THE PASSION OF THE SKANKED! 30 mins.
Prepared to be shocked as weddings, gangsta police,
an abusive phone call, PMT Bitch, ghetto college, black
history month, awkward gay moments… and possibly
the most disgusting sketch ever filmed are brought to
you by the urban comedy factory known as the Skank Boyz.
Written & Directed by Joe Crackass and The Skank
Boyz.
WORKING LATE – 50 secs.
You know those days when your computer just will not
behave?
Written & Directed by Jacqui Adams.
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE SKANKED! 30 Mins.
The Skank Boyz unleashes their yearly comedic trawl
through the urban landscape. Filmed especially for the
Portobello Film Festival and featuring new characters
and sketches such as The Negotiator, Skanked Cribs,
Tough Dad, A Day in the Life of the Hoodies and the
unveiling of the G-Folk era.
Written & Directed by Joe Crackass and The Skank
Boyz.
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.
Curated and presented by Colin Prescod and Menelik Shabaz,
featuring a lively debate (8pm) on where we are now
50 years on and screenings of Colin Prescod’s
You Were Black You Were Out (6pm) & Blacks Britannica
(9pm), and Menelik Shabaz’s Step Forward Youth
(7pm) and Time & Judgement (10pm).
10 SEPTEMBER,
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.
To celebrate the holy way of the Jester, Ex Gratia Recordings
have a hat-trick release on the aforementioned evening
of debauchery. A new single from both cabaret punk-funkers
- Rude Mechanicals and flagship freaks – Anarchistwood.
Ex Gratia turns this into a seedy threesome with the
long awaited debut album from performance soloist -
Handsum Pete.
At 6.30pm, a premier cut of Punkvert's new creative
AV documentary - #402, will be screened. Filmed in collaboration
with artists from the Treatment Rooms and Nick Reynolds
(Alabama3), the piece follows the events of said individuals
as they travelled to Huntsville, Texas for the State
execution of Baroness von Reichardt's (Treatment Rooms)
friend – John Joe 'Ash' Amador, in summer of 2007.
The last minute addition of Nick to the travel party
transformed the outcome of this grizzly display of sanctioned
homicide. By Nick's casting of a death mask of Ash,
his family, friends and the audience can find some positive
light in the darkness of capital punishment VJing for
the evening comes from the most (UN) paranoid Kodek
(VJ) and Punkvert, whilst PRNWhore and the bastard son
of dada and all things decedent, Mr. Johnny Southside
spin the vinyl.
For more info on the above event, #402 or the forthcoming
Ex Gratia releases, please email punkvert@gmail.com
or visit sites below
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.
13 SEPTEMBER, WESTBOURNE
STUDIOS
9pm World Premiere of Cash
and Curry, featuring players from Bend It Like
Beckham.
14 SEPTEMBER, WESTBOURNE
STUDIOS.
9pm Closing Ceremony with Awards for
best films submitted for Portobello 2008.
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
U
A scrawny rat named Remy (voice of Patton
Oswalt) finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring
up sizable controversy in the kitchen of a fine French
restaurant in director Brad Bird's madcap computer-animated
comedy.
31 August
FLUSHED AWAY
U
From Aardman Features and DreamWorks Animation,
the team behind the Oscar winning hits "Wallace
& Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and
"Shrek," comes the computer-animated comedy
Flushed Away, which tells the story of a pampered pet
mouse who is flushed down the toilet from his penthouse
apartment in Kensington beneath the streets of London,
where he has to learn a whole new way of life.
6 September
VALIANT
U
Animated wartime adventure featuring the voices
of Ricky Gervais and Ewan McGregor.
7 September
CARS
PG
From the acclaimed creators of Toy Story,
The Incredibles, and Finding Nemo comes a high-octane
adventure comedy that shows life is about the journey,
not the finish line.
13 September
WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE RABBIT
U
The cheese-loving Wallace and his ever faithful
dog Gromit-the much-loved duo from Aardman''s Oscar-winning
clay-animated ''Wallace & Gromit'' shorts-star in
an all new comedy adventure, marking their first full-length
feature film.
14 September
THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE
U
There’s trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom!
Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks
like Mr. Krabs is the culprit! Though he's just been
passed over for the promotion of his dreams, SpongeBob
stands by his boss and along with his best pal Patrick
sets out on a treacherous mission to Shell City to reclaim
the crown and save Mr. Krabs's life.
See www.portobellofilmfestival.com for full details
of Portobello Film Festival 2008.
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.
Subscribe free on the website www.portobellofilmfestival.com
for updates and invites to special events.
Contact JB or Yvonne at Portobello Film Festival:
Unit 11, ACAVA, 54 Blechynden Street, London W10 6RJ.
T: 020 8960 0996 E: pff@btopenworld.com
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