Thu 2 Sept POP UP CINEMA GRAND OPENING 6:30–10:00pm Echoes of the Underground Lee Harris and Hicham Benassi present a live Happening with Giles Walker robaots and prejections of the counter culture history of Portobello Road. Featuring: Gold Fish Bowl Hicham Benassi Portobello Rocks! MuTATE 09: One Foot In The Grove Joe Kargbo 40 minutes U In November 2009, an art ‘collective’ primarily consisting of Mutoid Waste and Coroy House put on an art exhibition under the westway 2010. This documentary features interviews, behind the scenes “look”and cutting edge soundtrack! Art Documentaries. London 7.30pm 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 PFF, 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 BAFTA nominated, Mixtape. Each film is 2 minutes and 20 seconds! www.virginmediashorts.co.uk 8pm WORLD PREMIERE SSDD: Same Shit Different Day Greg Hall 87 minutes 15 A slice of life in the east end of London following Lee, recently released from prison, and Phil, a squatter and former rider, who both work night shift together. Drama. London Writer / Director Greg Hall came to early notice with his no-budget debut feature film “The Plague” (2004) when aged only 22. Receiving the inaugural Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award from Mike Leigh at the Sarajevo Film Festival, who described it as “very exciting 21st Century cinema”.“Kapital” (2007) his second feature film was a commission by the Manchester International Festival and a unique collaboration with renowned composer Steve Martland as a film-to-music project. Currently completed third feature “SSDD Same Shit Different Day” (2010), Greg Hall has also acquired the film rights to anarchist Ian Bone’s autobiography “Bash The Rich” which he is currently adapting for the screen. www.brokebutmakingfilms.com Love Does Grow on Trees Bevan Walsh 10 minutes 15 A coming of age comedy about a teenage boy whose life is thrown into chaos when he discovers adult magazines, girls and the embarrassment that goes with both. It’s a sweet, nostalgic story of lust, guilt and ultimately - first love. Drama. The Addiction Trilogy Harald Schleicher 15 minutes 18 The experimental found-footage project The Addiction Trilogy deals with addiction and its depiction in motion pictures. The first part deals with smoking, the second part with alcohol and the third with drugs. Art. Germany back to overview