London Short Film Festival returns for its 17th edition this week. The UK’s premiere showcase for emerging & established, homegrown & international short film screens from 10 to 19 JAN at 9 venues across town. Here’s everything you need to know!
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Continuing our reporting from this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV 2019) we take a look at FISH OUT OF WATER, a wide-reaching programme of short films curated by young people from Project Indigo.
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Continuing our reporting from this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV 2019) we take a look at (DEEP) INTO YOU, the festival’s ever-popular sex-, queer- & body-positive short film programme. NSFW (depending upon where you work…).
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As well as volunteering at this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV), RADIANT CIRCUS managed to catch a number of film screenings. In the first of our special FRINGE! DIARIES we look at Patricia Ortega’s Venezuelan intersex drama, BEING IMPOSSIBLE (2018).
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Earlier this autumn, RADIANT CIRCUS spent a happy time as a judge for the second Smartphone Film Festival (28 to 29 SEP 2019). Following that event, we had two jobs. First was to screen some of the short films as part of our LUNCHTIME FILM SOCIETY pop up (done!) and then we had to post a writeup of the award-winning shorts (here we go!). PART TWO.
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Earlier this autumn, RADIANT CIRCUS spent a happy time as a judge for the second Smartphone Film Festival (28 to 29 SEP 2019). Following that event, we had two jobs. First was to screen some of the short films as part of our LUNCHTIME FILM SOCIETY pop up (done!) and then we had to post a writeup of the award-winning shorts (here we go!). PART ONE.
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Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest continues to shine as one of London’s most vibrant, friendly & boundary-breaking festivals. Still run entirely by volunteers – & fresh from a last-minute change in venue – 2019 looks as fabulous as ever. Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS Top Ten picks of this year’s fest.
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We caught up with Werner Herzog’s latest film FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC part of the DARE strand at the BFI London Film Festival (02 to 13 OCT). Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS writeup.
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Native Spirit Film Festival returns for its 13th year (12 to 20 OCT) promoting indigenous cinema, media makers & artists. Founded by Mapuche artist & filmmaker Freddy Treuquil in 2005, the festival promotes encounters between diverse people & perspectives. Here’s everything you need to know.
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It’s already the second week & we’re only just catching up with this year’s BFI London Film Festival (02 to 13 OCT)… Good news is – despite plenty of sold out shows – there’s some great downlist cinema still to see. Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS top ten best of the rest of the fest!
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