CREATE11, now in its fourth year, is a summer arts festival for east London, celebrating the intrinsic creativity of the area and sponsored by Deutsche Bank. The festival presents over 200 homemade, world-class events profiling east London creativity taking place in surprising spaces: a disused motorway undercroft in Hackney Wick; London’s historic music halls; a 1980’s building in Canary Wharf; a WWII bunker in Dalston; a floating cinema on the waterways of east London; a shop turned into...

Friday 24 June to Monday 25 July www.createlondon.org  PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS CREATE11, now in its fourth year, is a summer arts festival for east London, celebrating the intrinsic creativity of the area and sponsored by Deutsche Bank. The festival presents over 200 homemade, world-class events profiling east London creativity taking place in surprising spaces: a disused motorway undercroft in Hackney Wick; London’s historic music halls; a 1980’s building in Canary Wharf; a WWII bu...

  10 DAYS OF FANTASTIC FILM - STARTS 23 APRIL Ready for your full immersion into the float-tank of sci-fi? Not long now until the festival opens for its TENTH edition! We are delighted to have many Directors and Producers flying in to support their movies and we hope to have some great Q&A sessions. We have lots of goodies on their way to Festival HQ and we will also be hosting some new Nintendo 3DS demo machines in the bar - come and see 3D without glasses! There is a l...

The London Screenwriters' Festival october 29-31,2010 Over the three days of the festival seventy five individual events were held, each crammed with insight, information and inspiration for professional writers. Broadly, about 25% of sessions are aimed at emerging talent; the remaining 75% targeted at established writers. Competition Winners Short Script Competition. 1st Place: ‘The Dead Office’ by Laurence Timms 2nd Place: ‘The Decision’ by Henry Fosdike 3rd Place: â€...

Sheffield Doc/Fest will be the first film festival in the world to commission an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) for its delegates.Over the past 2 years, the Sheffield Doc/Fest has implemented some of the boldest cross-platform programming and initiatives in their DigiDocs360 programme and their Crossover Labs. This ARG, called "The Truth Is Catching" is another exciting new part of their interactive programming. ARG's are a growing game genre that uses reality, multi media and game elements which ...

"I believe in the adage 'there are no coincidences.' Case in point, Jonathan Hall and Hannah Robinson who are the winners of the American Screenwriters Association's 11th Annual International Screenwriting Competition (co-sponsored by Gotham Writers' Workshop). So you find yourself languishing in an airport on another monotonous layover when something pique's your interest. Okay, you're kind of eavesdropping on a fellow passenger's cell phone conversation. Semantics-schmantics. The woman with th...