East End Film Festival Poster Competition

I was delighted to receive the photograph (below) from my friend the ‘Gentle Author” who publishes the distinctive and gripping daily blog Spitalfields Life.

East End Film Festival Poster, Bethnal Green Road 2011

The branding for the East End Film Festival this year has drawn inventively from my East End photo archive thanks to a selection by the festivals artistic director Alison Poltock. Below is the original photograph from the Brick Lane of the 1980’s.

Brothers outside shop on Brick Lane, 1985

How different Brick Lane looks today. Below I have inserted the 1985 photograph into today’s Brick Lane.

Brick Lane, 1985/2010 composite

Please send your photos of any East End Film festival poster sites with the 1985 Brick Lane image to me at maxwellphotouk@yahoo.co.uk. The sender of the ‘best’ image will receive a signed print of the original image and the runner up will receive two free tickets to the premiere of East End Lives 3 at the Genesis Cinema on 28 April at 8:30pm. The film was made and directed by Hazuan Hashim and myself. Hazuan will be answering questions at the Q&A following the screening. Incidentally there will be a surprise screening of a new short at the start of the programme featuring the talented singer Chris Savage King.