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On a seriously hot night in East London, some of the CE team went down to Genesis Cinema for the East End Film Festival Opening Night Gala of Dermaphoria. The heat turned out to be fitting as the film was shot in New Orleans and was a sureal, sweaty clustrophobic film staring Ron Perlman, who

Cutting East programmers enjoyed a day of honing our interview techniques from top level journalists at The Guardian today. Programmers got tips from Simon Hattenstone and Kaleem Aftab before practising on Caspar Llewllyn Smith and Paul MacInnes. Really looking forward to putting these into practice now at the festival starting with a Hind Meddebs Q&A

After a huge push and lots of hard work from everybody we have finally got the brochures back from the printers. Keep your eyes open for  brouchures around east London and make sure you pick up a copy or if you see one of the Cutting East programmers handing them out – make sure you say

Submissions are open for youth groups and individuals to submit their short film into the Cutting East Shorts Programme Cutting East is a festival by youth for youth, celebrating young people’s talents and achievement in East London. What we are looking for: Films can be Documentaries, Music Video, Drama, Animation, spoken word, dance.. any genre

An urban thriller starring Paddy Considine and rising star Aiysha Hart, Honour (dir. Shan Khan, UK) focuses on a young British Muslim girl who plans to run away with her Punjabi boyfriend – prompting her family to enlist a bounty hunter in a desperate bid to save face. Showing in conjunction with East End Film

  Ten new young programmers, all from Tower Hamlets, have joined the Cutting East team this year and will be making our curatorial debut alongside British Asian film director and writer Shan Khan with the UK Premiere of Honour,  in partnership with Asia House Pan-Asia Film Festival.   We’ve done our research on the film, we will

We would like to give a special thanks to Melissa Palleschi From East London Radio who dropped in to do a feature about the festival with Jonathan one of the programmers of the festival. The interview will be up soon! There is still time to apply http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G8BK7YN

So it’s been a busy week for us at cutting east, we are getting back into the swing of things after the christmas holidays when we were treated to a lovely tour by the kind people at Spotlight. They showed us around their impressive faculty of media suites, radio rooms and recording studios. They also