Talking Pictures

Portobello Film Festival 2003
1 - 18 August 2003

Westbourne Studios Acklam Road London W10
Emslie Hornimans Park Kensal Road London W10
Electric Cinema Portobello Road London W11
The Tabernacle Powis Square London W11

The Portobello Film Festival is unlike any other. This is filmmaking of the raw and, sometimes, rude school, passionate, obsessive, and, above all, experimental.

With a breathtaking programme of over 500 shorts and features, audiences will experience some of the most innovative and culturally diverse filmmaking around. Documentaries, music, animation, drama and travel are just some of the genres featured, others we couldn’t categorise. (Nor would we want to).

Showing everything from “A Tribute To Joe Strummer” featuring rare and unseen Clash footage to the best in new Iranian short filmmaking, from an Extreme Sports selection to an Italian evening, from club films by Pinkypoos and Kinky Gerlinky to an exciting contemporary South African programme.

The Festival climaxes with three days of Megascreen madness in one of Portobello’s superb local parks. This is cinema alfresco at its best, a superbly programmed festival-within-a-festival, featuring everything from family films, to classics, to independent shorts. Sunshine guaranteed.

Free-for-all
Entry to the Festival is free. Free to enter, free to leave, free to think and free to be…

Portobello Film Festival was founded in 1996 as a showcase for Independent film. One of Europe’s largest, it provides a mutually supportive platform on which to show films, share ideas and promote grass-root creativity.Submission policy.

We don’t have one - every film submitted is screened. The festival accepts either shorts or feature length, on DVD and video. We’re especially looking for pieces, which challenge cinematic boundaries but, above all, inspire and motivate others to create film.

Weekly screenings throughout the year.

Find us at portobellofilmfestival.com - where you can download an entry form. Alternatively, we’re at the Video Café, Westbourne Studios, Acklam Road, W10, every Wednesday from 6 – 11pm.

For more info visit their website at:

http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/pff2003preview.html
Contact Jonathan Barnett on 020 8960 0996