THU 03 September Westbourne Studios Grand Opening 6pm Much Ado About A Minor Ting Jesse Lawrence 23 minutes 15 18-year old Rene returns to West London to track down his ex-sweet heart. But why is there a £150 price on his head? Drama. London Di Me Que Yo Mateo Gil 15 minutes 15 He and She meet exactly at the same time they break up with their own couples... Is it possible for two strangers to begin a conversation full of recriminations arguing until they get hoarse, and passionately reconcile as if they were a couple in the end? Comedy. Spain A Night With Michael Prosper 7 minutes 12 A short doc on a gathering of groupies under the hotel window of Michael Jackson. Documentary. Holland Mine: Story Of A Sacred Mountain Toby Nicholson 16 minutes 12 Vedanta Resources, a British company, plans to dig a vast open-cast bauxite mine in the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa, India, which will destroy the forests that the 8,000 Dangria Kondh rely on for their food and way of life. The Dongria worship the mountain as a living god, and are determined to save Nivamgiri from becoming an industrial wasteland. Narrated by Joanna Lumley. Documentary. London True Beauty This Night Peter Besson 10 minutes Last night, Rhett Sumer, met the love of his life. Now all he has to do is convince her she’s the one. Not an easy feat considering how they met. Comedy. USA Far From Everything / Loin De Tout Pascal Marc 15 minutes 15 Sometimes, it’s better not to know what lurks in the depths of the forest, far from everything... Drama. France Sidney Turtlebaum Tristram Shapero 19 minutes 12A Sidney Turtlebaum, is about an eccentric old man (Derek Jacobi) who gets his own back at the world that rejected him by gate crashing funerals and stealing from the gathered crowd. Comedy. London Liminal Stephen Keep Mills 14 minutes 18 INA and Joy are naked and locked in a battle of elimination. INA must reverse the power to survive. Are they lovers or is Joy the “Killer - Within”? Drama. USA 8pm Virgin Media Shorts is all about shining a light on Britain’s best film makers and giving them the biggest possible arena to showcase their work. The short film competition awards one Grand Prize winner each year with £30K film funding and a chance to work with the UKFC and Virgin Media on their next film. At tonights Portobello Film Festival Opening Ceremony, Virgin Media Shorts showcases the 12 shorts up for this year’s grand prize and will set the stage with last year’s winning film The Black Hole. Each film is 2 minutes and 20 seconds! www.virginmediashorts.co.uk The Truth About Angels Lichelli Lazar-Lea 79 minutes 15 Pablo (Antonio Del Prete) escapes his turbulent relationship with his wife (Monique Gabriela Curnen) when he is invited to an exclusive Hollywood party by his movie star best friend (Simon Rex). Enchanted by beautiful party girl (Dree Hemingway), Pablo finds himself on a collision course between morality, immorality and mortality. Drama. USA 10pm Graffiti Research Laboratories - Season 1 To be introduced by members of the Graffiti Research Lab who will talk about the "lighter side" of being searched, fined, detained, arrested, tortured and thrown in prison by scuffers, feds and hobby bobbies all around the world. The official GRL press release for the movie (redacted by the US Government): From their origins in the trash room of a non-profit in Manhattan to their emergence as the instigators of an international art movement, Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground. The film follows the GRL and their network of graffiti artist collaborators (and commercial imitators) across four continents as they write on skyscrapers with lasers, mock advertisers with homemade tools, get in trouble with The Department of Homeland Security and make activism fun again. Primarily using video footage from point-and-shoot digital cameras (“The Pocket School???) and found-content on the web, the movie’s visual style draws as much from the art of the power point presentation and viral media as conventional documentary cinema. Narrated by GRL co-founders, Roth and Powderly, The Complete First Season makes a humorous and insightful argument for free speech in public, open source in pop culture, the hacker spirit in graffiti and not asking for permission in general. The film was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Available 24/7 on The Pirate Bay. James Powderly has been making art, technology and media at the fringes of robotics, graffiti, comics, tattoos and rock n roll since 1992. His work has been exhibited on two planets and five continents including the Tate Modern, the Sundance Film Festival, Mars, Ars Electronica, Chongwen Prison, Art Basel Miami and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Powderly was the co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab and the Free Art and Technology Lab, both headquartered in Brooklyn. You can find Powderly's work in the permanent collection of the MoMA, the permanent collection of debris on Mars, 24/7 on the web and on other people’s property all over the world. He is currently at-large in London. back to schedule