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UK Green Film Festival 2013

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Time 19:00
Date 08/06/13
Price £11

The vital UK Green Film Festival is taking place in London and across the UK with screenings at Greenwich, Hackney and Clapham Picturehouses

The UK Green Film Festival 2013 will inform,inspire, entertain and challenge film fans and green thinkers up and down the country with award-winning feature films, premieres, shorts, guest speakers and Q&As.

For 2013 the festival has more than doubled in size and made London it's home town for the first time. Catch London screenings, galas and special events at Clapham Picturehouse, Hackney Picturehouse and Greenwich Picturehouse between 1 - 8 June.

Find out more & view the full programme: www.ukgreenfilmfestival.org
Festival trailer >>http://youtu.be/o8VXOErFhlk

 

Read our full preview here.

 

***WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THE FOLLOWING SCREENING EVENTS*** (find out more about them in info below):
Future My Love + short + Q&A with Roxanne Meadows, Founder, Venus Project

Saturday 8 June, 7pm, Hackney Picturehouse
Solar Taxi - UK Premiere Thursday 6 June, 9pm, Clapham Picturehouse

Peak + short  Wednesday 5 June, 6.30pm, Greenwich Picturehouse

Answer the following question and send your answer to clare@run-riot.com with the answer and screening you would like to win tickets for by Friday 31st May at 1pm:

Who directed the UK Green Film Festival's Opening Gala Film?

a) Markus Dimhoof, b) Markus Chinhoof, c) Markus Imhoof

 

Full London listings:

In Hackney:

Saturday 1 June, 7pm, Hackney Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival Opening Gala:
More Than Honey UK Premiere ft. skype Q&A with director Markus Imhoof

The opening on the only green film festival in the UK premiere’s Academy-award nominee Markus Imhoof’s dazzling in depth look at the world bee crisis.

Thursday 6 June, 6.30pm, Hackney Picturehouse

UK Green Film Festival: Future My Love + short
Maja Borg takes us on a poetic trip through the financial collapse, exploring a radically different economic and social model as proposed by 95-year-old futurist Jacque Fresco.

Saturday 8 June, 7pm, Hackney Picturehouse

UK Green Film Festival Closing Gala:
Trashed ft. Q&A with director Candida Brady & Jeremy Irons
The closing night of this vital festival will feature a special screening of waste doc Trashed.

 

Tickets for Hackney screenings and events here.
 

In Clapham:
Sunday 2 June 12pm, Clapham Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Solar Taxi - UK Premiere
A green road movie - full of surprises! Dir. Erik Shmitt.

Thursday 6 June, 9pm, Clapham Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Big Boys Gone Bananas!* + short
Eye-opening documentary examining the right to freedom of speech, telling the story of can happen when filmmakers go up against a large corporations like Dole.
Dir. Fredrik Gertten.

Sunday 8 June, 6pm, Clapham Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Peak + short
Set in ski resorts - but not as we know them - Peak causes us to relive a supposedly well-known world that has become a fascinating hybrid between nature and technology. Dir. Hennes Lang

 

Tickets for Hackney screenings and events here


In Greenwich:

Monday 3 June, 6.30pm, Greenwich Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Peak + short
Set in ski resorts - but not as we know them - Peak causes us to relive a supposedly well-known world that has become a fascinating hybrid between nature and technology. Dir. Hennes Lang
Wednesday 5 June, 6.30pm, Greenwich Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Valley of Saints ft. Q&A
Valley of Saints weaves together documentary and fiction, ancient myths and contemporary issues and the beauty and danger of Kashmir to tell a story finding ones path home in a changing world. Dir. Musa Syeed
Friday 7 June, 6.30pm, Greenwich Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: More Than Honey + short
Academy-award nominee Markus Imhoof’s dazzling in depth look at the world bee crisis.

 

Tickets for Greenwich screenings and events here

See more details of the programme here.

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