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Student Film Festival London’s having a Summer party at Platform, Netil House, London Fields this Thursday 18th of August, here is their press release....... .

Shh! Speakeasy: Student Film Festival London’s Summer party
at Platform, Netil House on 18th of August

Student Film Festival London (SFFL), the new international film platform dedicated to students, are collaborating with London-based film networks International Student Film Organisation (ISFO) ,MUBI/GARAGE, Gorilla Film Magazine and Cigarette Burns Cinema to host one night of film, music and games.

The Summer party will take place in a tucked away venue in London Fields from 7pm so that guest can relive Prohibition’s excitement of sneaking in a Speakeasy for a clandestine drink.

MUBI/GARAGE will lend their extensive library collection for a silent mash-up screening of forbidden images to foster an atmosphere of danger.
Gorilla Film Magazine, are bringing their expertise in film and fun to organise the night’s entertainment through two creative film games, Monkey Roulette and Risk it for a Biscuit, designed exclusively for the event.

Incorporating social media into the evening, ISFO will organise a film pitching competition via twitter culminating in an award ceremony on the night. The winners will have a chance to win prizes and international exposure.

The audience will call the tunes as soundtrack suggestions from their favourite films of the Prohibition Era on SFF London’s Facebook wall will be compiled into a playlist for the event. SFF London will compile an extensive film collection for a silent mash-up screening of forbidden and censored images. Cigarette Burns Cinema will screen a teaser of their Pinky Violence autumn series at Rio Cinema, a Japanese film genre of the 70’s that focused specifically on ‘bad girl action films’ as described by the Toei studios.

Symbolising prohibition in its various guises, this background projection will present a reflection on alternative forms of culture prohibited over the years, making Netil House a place where previously repressed forms of expression are allowed to thrive.
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SFF London is the city’s first international student film festival to be hosted in February 2012, a festival created by enterprising young people for young people.

SFF London was Co-founded by Naqisa Silva, a film student at the University of the Arts,;Umar Khan, a graduate in Communications and Media from Brunel University; and Suchi Zhao, a Financial Analyst at the Hermes Group. The festival will display an estimated 200 international films and award artists in eight categories including Short, Animation and Features. SFF London hope to encourage and nurture a new wave of filmmakers as well as launching a vital celebration of global talent development in the long term. The permanent team of SFF London totals approximately thirty experts from different industries such as consultancies, funds and trusts, production and film industry, and art institutions. The SFF London internal structure, alike their program, is comprised of international enterprising young professionals from the UK, India, China, Canada, the United States, Russia, Poland, Germany, and Italy, giving them access to international film-making in its native domains.w ww.sfflondon.org

The International Student Film Organization (ISFO) is an online film network which aims to connect young film makers from all over the world to each other and the industry. Its targets are to increase the overall visibility and quality of student films and to support the next generation of international talent. You can find out more about the ISFO atwww.futureinfilm.com

MUBI/GARAGE is an online cinema that aim to create a new, global cinematic experience of great films, original editorial coverage, and a global community of the most interesting and interested film fans in the world.

Gorilla Film Magazine is a print and online film magazine focused on the independent film world, reviewing lesser well know films and raising awareness for low-to-no-budget filmmakers. Comparing themselves as a filmmaker’s guidebook with How to's and DIY articles, they wish to encourage film enthusiasts to get out there and make films. www.gorillafilmmagazine.com

Cigarette Burns is a London based organization that focuses on returning forgotten and obscure cult classics to the cinema screens of the capital. Founded by Josh Upstart, Cigarette Burns Cinema organizes monthly screenings of rare classics such as Mario Bava's Danger: Diabolik, Dario Argentos' Suspiria, Brit zombie biker classic Psychomania, X-mas slasher Black Christmas '74, Abel Ferrara's revenge classic Ms. 45 and many more at the Rio Cinema in Dalston. www.cigaretteburnscinema.com

Within a warren of studios, on the second floor at Netil House, Platform is east London's newest cafe-bar, with huge windows and a terrace overlooking the railway tracks providing an iconic panorama. Netil House, 2nd floor, 1 Westgate Street, E8 3RL, London.https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=124314904327953#!/PlatformE8
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Naqisa Silva
SFF London
www.sfflondon.org

Don't forget, the Student Film Festival London runs from the 3rd February - 5th February 2012.

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