Growing festival in London also honours docs Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic and Mark Donne’s The UK Gold.
The 12th East End Film Festival (Eeff) has awarded its best feature prize, for first or second features, to Sebastian Hofmann’s Halley. Halley tells the story of a security guard at a Mexico City gym whose physical deterioration provides a stark contrast to the healthy bodies around him. Hoffman will be invited to be the festival’s director in residence next year, when Eeff will also spotlight Mexican cinema.
The jury was comprised of last year’s winner Armando Bo (El Ultimo Elvis), critic Peter Bradshaw, producer and Tugg co-founder Nicolas Gonda, My Brother The Devil director Sally El Hosaini, and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
The best documentary jury, comprised of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, musician Mark Stewart, producer Rachel Wexler and head programmer of Cph:dox Niklas Engstrøm, chose two documentaries to share the top award. They are...
The 12th East End Film Festival (Eeff) has awarded its best feature prize, for first or second features, to Sebastian Hofmann’s Halley. Halley tells the story of a security guard at a Mexico City gym whose physical deterioration provides a stark contrast to the healthy bodies around him. Hoffman will be invited to be the festival’s director in residence next year, when Eeff will also spotlight Mexican cinema.
The jury was comprised of last year’s winner Armando Bo (El Ultimo Elvis), critic Peter Bradshaw, producer and Tugg co-founder Nicolas Gonda, My Brother The Devil director Sally El Hosaini, and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
The best documentary jury, comprised of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, musician Mark Stewart, producer Rachel Wexler and head programmer of Cph:dox Niklas Engstrøm, chose two documentaries to share the top award. They are...
- 7/11/2013
- ScreenDaily
Even as the Edinburgh International Film Festival presses ahead up north, the nation’s capital is not – and never has been – content to sit complacent on the cinematic front. The East End Film Festival, founded in 2000 and expanding year on year ever since, returns from 25 June to July 10 and once again boasts a remarkably strong lineup. Awards to dish out include Best Film, Best Documentary, Best Short Film and the Eeff Short Film Audience Award, from an eclectic jury that features the likes of the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, Wu-Tang Clan head honcho RZA, and Armando Bo, winner of last year’s Best Film Award for his directorial debut El Ultimo Elvis.
Things kick off in celebratory fashion with the Opening Gala at the Art Deco Troxy in Limehouse on 25 June, where Mark Donne’s less-than-celebratory The UK Gold will have its world premiere. The documentary looks at recession-era Britain...
Things kick off in celebratory fashion with the Opening Gala at the Art Deco Troxy in Limehouse on 25 June, where Mark Donne’s less-than-celebratory The UK Gold will have its world premiere. The documentary looks at recession-era Britain...
- 6/24/2013
- by Ed Doyle
- SoundOnSight
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The Act Of Killing: Directors Tour, Nationwide
Co-produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, no less, The Act Of Killing establishes Joshua Oppenheimer as a significant force in documentary, if that's what you can call it. Oppenheimer's movie tracks down the perpetrators of Indonesia's state-sanctioned 60s genocide and encourages them to recreate their crimes as scenarios from Hollywood movies, a project they embrace all too readily. By turns, shocking, surreal and revelatory, this innovative film blurs fact and fiction and leaves you with many questions. To answer some of those, the UK-based American director talks to John Pilger at Brixton's Ritzy on Friday, and Q&As at 10 other venues.
Various venues, Fri to 7 Jul
East End film festival London
Making the colloquialisms of Albert Square look like a far-off universe, or at least a far-off postcode,...
The Act Of Killing: Directors Tour, Nationwide
Co-produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, no less, The Act Of Killing establishes Joshua Oppenheimer as a significant force in documentary, if that's what you can call it. Oppenheimer's movie tracks down the perpetrators of Indonesia's state-sanctioned 60s genocide and encourages them to recreate their crimes as scenarios from Hollywood movies, a project they embrace all too readily. By turns, shocking, surreal and revelatory, this innovative film blurs fact and fiction and leaves you with many questions. To answer some of those, the UK-based American director talks to John Pilger at Brixton's Ritzy on Friday, and Q&As at 10 other venues.
Various venues, Fri to 7 Jul
East End film festival London
Making the colloquialisms of Albert Square look like a far-off universe, or at least a far-off postcode,...
- 6/22/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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