In Conversation with Akinola Davies
Wed 7 Oct
We welcome BAFTA-winning director, Akinola Davies Jr. for an on-stage conversation around Black film, African film, diaspora voices and visioning soft Black male fatherhood in this one-off event before our screening of his award-winning feature debut. Hosted by Blackity Black curator and co-founder of Afri-Co-Lab Anna Maria Nabirye. Blackity Black: a new regular screening strand celebrating and am...
My Father's Shadow + Director's Q&A
Wed 7 Oct
Akinola Davies Jr.’s BAFTA-winning feature debut is a vivid, beautifully realised, child’s-eye-view of a mysterious father and a country on the edge of political unrest. Nigeria, 1993: Kid brothers Remi (Chibuike Marvelous Egbo) and Akin (Godwin Chimerie Egbo) get to spend the day with their estranged father Folarin (Sope Irisu) and visit dizzying, kaleidoscopic Lagos for the first time. But Fola...
My Father's Shadow (Subtitled)
Thu 8 Oct
Akinola Davies Jr.’s BAFTA-winning feature debut is a vivid, beautifully realised, child’s-eye-view of a mysterious father and a country on the edge of political unrest. Nigeria, 1993: Kid brothers Remi (Chibuike Marvelous Egbo) and Akin (Godwin Chimerie Egbo) get to spend the day with their estranged father Folarin (Sope Irisu) and visit dizzying, kaleidoscopic Lagos for the first time. But Fola...
I ❤︎ Ads
Thu 8 Oct
Copywriter Richard Russell has been dreaming up ads for 40 years. He wrote the most awarded commercial in advertising history and once made a cinema audience burst into applause. Here he presents a hand-picked collection of brilliant TV commercials – forgotten beauties and unseen crackers – accompanied by insights and analysis that give you a sneaky peek behind the advertising curtain. Come and en...
TV Theme Tune Quiz + Jinglefest
Thu 8 Oct
Hastings' own Our Town Has Plenty podcaster Patsy Solanki takes you on a journey to sing-a-long with some of the best TV jingles and to test your memory with a TV theme tunes quiz! Patsy will then be joined by Richard Russell to celebrate some of the best TV jingles ever made. Part two of our celebration of TV adverts. Patsy worked at legendary ad agency McCanns in the 70s golden age of advertisi...
Red Dwarf Night
Fri 9 Oct
Four classic episodes from the cult TV sci-fi show, Red Dwarf. Hosted by super-fan Rakesh Solanki with the option to buy pot noodles on the night! 1 Timeslides The developing fluid that Kryten uses to process old photographs mutates and the pictures come alive. The Red Dwarf crew find they can use the snaps to go back in time, so Lister plans on changing history so that he doesn't end up maroon...
TV Detectives: Danger Mouse
Sun 11 Oct
Relive 80s teatimes with DM, Penfold and Greenback with this classic cartoon James Bond parody. With David Jason and Terry Scott! Danger Mouse, a talented secret agent, and his faithful sidekick, Ernest Penfold, heroically thwart the evil plans of Baron Silas Greenback from their hidden headquarters under a pillar box on Baker Street. This fun-filled James Bond parody featured the familiar voices...
