Now approaching its fifth edition, The Essay Film Festival is an essential element in London’s indie film calendar, offering fresh, surprising and often beguiling takes on documentary and experimental filmmaking. Here’s our guide to what’s on (& what’s still booking!).
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We ventured into the wilds of Waltham Forest to imbibe the warming spirits of Mother’s Ruin & (really) enjoy the Women Over 50 Film Festival’s ‘Best Of The Fest’ pop-up event, part of a new UK tour. Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS writeup.
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Walthamstow Smartphone Film Festival took place at CentrE17 last year (23 NOV 2018), playing to a packed hall of locals, filmmakers and subjects from the community docs. Playing our part as first-time jury member and media partner, here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS writeup.
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We love it when indies experiment… The opening weekend of this year’s London Short Film Festival saw the 16th edition of the event taking up residency at Grow Hackney, where you could clamber aboard floating inflatable AIRDRAFT to watch some rubberised short film (12 to 13 JAN 2019).
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In the next in our series of interviews with London’s red hot indies, RADIANT CIRCUS chatted to Nuala O’Sullivan, director of the Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) before the BEST OF THE FEST UK TOUR pops-up at Mother’s Ruin Gin Palace, Walthamstow (03 FEB 16:00).
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The 16th London Short Film Festival (11 to 20 JAN 2019) opens this week and many screenings are selling fast. We thought we’d take a look at all the special events you can still buy tickets for at the time of posting… Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS top ten picks of this year’s LSFF. Please click quickly!
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Documentary specialists Last Frame Club are hosting their first Smartphone Film Festival in Walthamstow this Friday (23 NOV 18:00). RADIANT CIRCUS chatted with co-director Vera Hems Anderson about new adventures in handheld movie making.
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Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (13 to 18 NOV) opened last night and many of their free events are already fully booked. We thought we’d take a look at the features that you can still buy tickets for at the time of posting. Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS top ten picks of this year’s Fringe! Click quickly…
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This week sees the opening of the eighth edition of the Open City Documentary Festival at venues across London (04 to 09 SEP). RADIANT CIRCUS invited festival marketing manager Matt Turner to give us his personal highlights from this year’s special events programme.
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Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival has announced this year’s award winners. Find out who won – and our RADIANT CIRCUS views – of the many outstanding short docs we saw at Hackney Attic and Rio Cinema.
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