The annual Brixton Reel Film Festival starts this Saturday, 25 October. This year’s festival is bigger and brighter than ever with spectacular, entertaining films and events in community venues and cinemas near you and it’s all free!
As ever this pioneering film festival prides itself in celebrating wellbeing and empowerment for local minority communities. This year there are dedicated events celebrating African-Caribbean, Asian, Portuguese and Latin American experience.
Kicking off the festival is the future of filmmaking with the world premiere of an interactive movie called TryLife at the BFI Southbank on Saturday 25 October. This is followed at Brixton’s Mosaic Centre, with feel-good Asian film Hemalkasa and African Yoga. The Mar Azul Restaurant has authentic Portuguese food and shorts films. Latin American audiences will be welcomed to the Roxy Cinema, Southwark, with the preview screening of Yo soy de Chile (I am From Chile). And the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton will be the location for the preview of US movie Get On Up, the much-anticipated James Brown biopic.
Brixton Reel is supported by NHS Lambeth CCG, Southwark Council and Lewisham Council promoting positive mental health and well-being.
