East End Film Festival

The eighth East End Film Festival starts this week, running from 17-24 April at a number of cinemas and other venues around the East End of London including the Cineworld West India Quay, the Genesis Mile End Cinema, the Rich Mix cinema in Shoreditch, the Stratford Picture House and the Rio Cinema.

The festival started out as a way to showcase the talents of local filmmakers and has gone on to include independent films from around the world as well as locally produced and developed ones. Each day of the festival will feature short films and feature films many with Q&A sessions with the filmmakers at the various cinemas taking part, as well as a programme of events and workshops related to filmmaking at venues such as the Brady Arts Centre, the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Stratford Circus.

Check out the East End Film Festival programme for full details of what’s on when.