East End Film Festival

The East End Film Festival is one of the UK’s biggest film festivals. In various venues across East London the festival annually "showcases hot new talent and homegrown films alongside larger independent releases and special events, informing and inspiring a new generation of filmmakers and audiences from across London and beyond, and raising the profile of this vibrant and diverse area - London’s East End." The festival also strives to actively search for “new voices from the edges of society, from different cultures, from strangers.” To this end, particular attention is paid to emergent British, Eastern European and Asian talent, and the festival screens features and hundreds of short films from up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world. The festival also places great emphasis on its MIND THE GAP sessions, which help "filmmakers in all stages of their careers cross the divide between an initial success and a sustainable career." New to the 2013 festival is a concerted focus on South American independent film. Also new to the 2013 festival is East End Live, a day-long mini music festival which will conclude this year’s festival. It will see over sixty acts perform in ten distinct locations across the East End.