21st year of Portobello Film Festival continues to deliver

After 20 years this festival still breaks new ground with documentaries, shock horror shorts and features which startle all done by up and coming film makers mostly in London and Europe although there is also an international section.  The point of a festival like this – which is also free mostly is to promo new talent in the world of filmmaking and those who get noticed will surely go onto more mainstream pursuits.  I was gawked at for saying I liked some of the darker gothic German offerings by someone working there.  I pointed out that those films could not be seen either on television or in a cinema and that the duty of people being creative in any media is to shock, surprise and break new ground.  Otherwise we are all being treated to the same material we have seen before n’est ce pas? So we DO need to see new takes on all subjects.

Today – on the 10th September, myself and a friend saw a number of documentaries on Senza di Vol – Italian on the edge drama,   Morocco – Le Maroc and its religious status in being mainly Islam but tolerating Jews and Christians with a capital T, Hungarian poor and their pursuits of better lives, and the festival continues to run  until September 18.  Nearly all of this festival is free.  The main venues are KPH public house very near to Ladbroke Grove Tube and The Muse gallery Portobello Road.  If you have time come along and take in some new slants on life, love and laughter.

Enjoy