Film Festival Preview: East End Film Festival
The East End Film Festival is a large multi-platform film festival which showcases a diverse programme of premières, hosts industry masterclasses, free pop-up screenings and immersive live events. The schedule is packed full of an eclectic array of the best new independent films from around the world, showcasing over 70 feature films by new directors. …
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Empire of Scents
You smell! – A common refrain in the playground. In truth, we all smell, but our olfaction, whilst taken for granted, plays a huge role in our enjoyment of food and life. The loss of this sense can have a huge impact on our happiness and memory. It’s an essential emotional trigger which plays a …
Incoming: The Overnight
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles’ Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt at the neighbourhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at the home. But as it gets …
DVD Review: Appropriate Behaviour
Let’s be honest, most American romantic comedies are quite frankly awful. They mostly fall into two categories: cliche-riddled cheese-fests or over-melodramatic nonsense. We’re not much better ourselves in the UK. Every so often though an indie rom-com appears which bucks the trend. In the tradition of Greenberg, Juno, Lost in Translation, In A World and …
Incoming: Hustlers Convention
In 1973, a fast-talking hustler by the name of Sport played a huge part in the birth of Hip Hop. Brought to life in the epic album, “Hustlers Convention”, by Lightnin’ Rod aka Jalal Nuriddin of ‘The Last Poets’, and backed by music from ‘Kool & The Gang’ and many others, this street tale of …
Incoming: Concrete Clouds
It is 1997. Bangkok is in the grip of the Asian financial crisis. Mutt (played by Ananda Everingham), a currency trader in New York, is forced to make a hasty return home to Bangkok after his father commits suicide. Following the funeral, he decides to track down Sai, his old girlfriend from high school. Meanwhile …
Film Review: Station To Station
Cinema can be a powerful medium for artists to use as a tool to explore and examine their own creativity. The lines between film and art can often become blurred. For an artists, a voyage of discovery can come in many diverse, bold and beautiful shapes and forms. In Station to Station, creative artist Doug …
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Russian Woodpecker
On 26th April 1986, after a fault with one of the reactors, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR exploded spewing radioactive particles into the atmosphere. It remains the largest nuclear disaster in history, in terms of casualties. The plant was under the direct control of the central authorities in the Soviet Union, …
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Planetary
Climate change is a topic which seems to slip in and out of the news. Whilst idiotic mutterings abound about the pace and cause of global warming, Planetary puts our focus on protecting this breathtaking and awe-inspiring planet we inhabit. The Earth is our most precious asset, and director Guy Reid’s documentary is a timely …
Incoming: Natural Resistance
Four Italian winegrowers live a life we all dream of: Giovanna Tiezzi and Stefano Borsa in their converted 11th century monastery and winery in Tuscany find a way to grow grains, fruits and wine that creates a link to their ancient Etruscan heritage and Corrado Dottori and Valerio Bochi, refugees from industrial Milan, labour for …