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.



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