Opening Night Film
Boom for Real:
The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
This UK Premiere documents the pre-fame years of this celebrated artist: exploring how New York, its people, and its tectonically shifting arts culture, shaped his vision. The likes of Nan Goldin, Jim Jarmusch and Luc Sante offer thoughts, period film footage, music, images and anecdotes of their friend to tell the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Lower East Side of New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Premiering at the Rio Cinema with guests including director Sara Driver in attendance, an epic Dalston-style Studio 54 afterparty follows the red carpet premiere.
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2018 Competition
Best Film Award
East End Film Festival's identity is rooted in a commitment to the discovery of the very best in new filmmaking voices. Accordingly, the EEFF Best Film Award is dedicated to the recognition of great work of first-time and second-time directors. Six of the eight shortlisted films in competition are first features, with five by female directors. I AM ANOTHER YOU (Nanfu Wang, USA)
TEAM HURRICANE (Annika Berg, Denmark)
DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN (Isabel Prahl, Germany)
TIGRE (Ulises Porra & Silvina Schnicer, Argentina)
HIGH FANTASY (Jenna Cato Bass, South Africa/Luxembourg)
DAHA (Onur Saylak, Turkey)
THE BANGLE SELLER / BALEKEMPA (Ere Gowda, India) |
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Masonic Temple Cinema
The Final Girls Present: She's Right Behind You Vengeful female ghosts are a staple in folklore, horror fiction and cinema. Disembodied and freed from society's grasp and domination of the female body, they are empowered to avenge those who wronged them when they were alive. Feminist horror film collective The Final Girls take over the Masonic Temple to explore this recurring ghostly figure. Screenings are to take place on Saturday 21 April and Sunday 22 April.
THE UNINVITED (1944)
KURONEKO (1968)
THE WOMAN IN BLACK (1989)
WHISPERING CORRIDORS (1998)
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Films For Food
Closing the Festival with Free Outdoor Screenings
In 2017, the festival opened with a weekend of free outdoor screenings at Old Spitalfields Market supporting Films For Food, with free admission in exchange for a donation of non-perishable goods to First Love Foundation who operate Tower Hamlets Foodbank. 372.7kg of food items were donated, which provides 745 meals. This year, we're closing the festival with this all-ages, all-access, community event. Stay tuned for details.
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In The Fade
London Premiere + 'In Conversation' with Director Fatih Akin
Best Foreign Language winner at the Golden Globes, the London Premiere of IN THE FADE (Fatih Akin, Germany) stars Cannes Best Actress winner Diane Kruger as a woman seeking justice then revenge after her Kurdish husband and son die in a bomb attack.
In his first UK appearance since IN THE FADE won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, Akin will talk about the controversy surrounding his latest work, his eclectic body of work that is a heady mix of comedies, thrillers and music documentaries, all while being the leading cinematic voice on cultural assimilation as part of our 'In Conversation' series.
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Spotlight Screening
Female-led Industry Panel Ahead of London Premiere of Pin Cushion Women take on key roles in assuring a film's lifecycle doesn't end with its production, as explored in a special EEFF Spotlight Screening of PIN CUSHION (Deborah Haywood, UK). Casting a keen eye on the complex relationships between women, this deliciously dark and utterly distinctive British debut infuses its dreamlike, fairytale like quality with shards of something much sharper and more troubling. To discuss these issues revealed in the film and in its production, the film will be followed by an industry discussion in partnership with Underwire Film Festival with many of the films key female crew members. |
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100 Feet High
Are you a filmmaker? Want to work with celluloid? In the digital age, producing work on celluloid can be an expensive and time-consuming endeavour. East End Film Festival, in partnership with Four Corners and Kodak, are giving YOU the opportunity to work with an old-school medium on the rise. Featuring Jury members including Robyn Slovo (Executive Producer with award-winning titles under her belt), Caspar Delaney (Executive Producer at Ridley Scott's RSA Films Associates), Kieron Corless (Deputy Editor of Sight & Sound), Asitha Ameresekere (BAFTA winning independent filmmaker), and Helen de Witt (Senior Programme Advisor at the BFI). Pitch submission deadline is Friday 30th of March. |
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