Opening Party is tonight, August 30th Under the Westway where the Pop Up Cinema is. 

The much loved, irreverant, different and always refreshing Portobello Film Festival is back again for the 2012 edition. The Opening Party is this evening from 18.30. Entry is free, and so is every session for the next two weeks. 

This brilliant festival brings a wealth of fiction, documentary and animation to three local venues: the Pop Up, the Westbourne Studios and the Great Western Studios. 

The Film Festival was created in 1996 as a reaction to the moribund state of the British film industry, to provide a for

um for new film-makers and give exposure to movies on different formats. Many of our previously out-on-a-limb directors have since been recognised by the big fish in the industry. The festival has been dubbed...

"The wild side of Brit Film" (Metro)

"The biggest celebration of independent film in Europe" (The Independent) 

"London’s biggest filmic free-for-all" (Time Out) 

“UK’s biggest independent film competition” (The London Paper)

“As he takes his acting very seriously Justin Timberlake should check out the emerging talent at the Portobello Film Festival” (Evening Standard)

“London’s best loved film festival.” (Creative Week) 

“Europe’s biggest indie film festival.” (Out magazine)

“The wild child of film festivals.” (Film Festival magazine)

“Forget the red carpet, Portobello Film Festival is the place to spot bright young things and the edgiest of stars.” (London Town.com)

The Portobello Film Festival shows tomorrow’s films today, it is evident in the number of ideas first presented here that regularly crop up in the mainstream.

For full programme visit www.portobellofilmfestival.com

You can also see the all the film listings here: PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL 2012 

• New Local Cinema
• About Harlesden Gallery
• “Corroded Surfaces” at Graffik Gallery
• Exhibition of Drawings by Paul Freud
• Great Western Studios - March 11
• Artists pay tribute to local films
• Street Artist wanted by the NYPD to have his international debut at Graffik Gallery
• "Modern Memorabilia" - James Paterson Exhibition
• Seldom Seen
• Great Western Studios - Summer Open Studios
• Reviewing Bank Job
• Karin Fransson “Private Behaviour” Album Launch – 5th July @ The Green Carnation
• Brain Fever at Salon IX
• Memoirs from a Cold Utopia
• Interactive installation at GWS
• Solo exhibition featuring the work of Adrian Wilson
• Great Western Studios - August 11
• Joanna Lazzarini - Winner of this years Carnival Village Prize.
• Cheers 2011 - UK China Art and Design Festival
• Marques Toliver at the Tabernacle
• Sandra Shashou at the GGGallery
• "I Did It My Way" a Solo Show by Matthew White
• Leee Black Childers photographs preview today
• Salon London - Grand Sensual
• Don Letts presents: Supersonic - the Rebel Dread
• Great Western Studios - December 11
• Harlesden Gallery Artist Group Exhibition @ The Tricycle – Kilburn
• Turning the Tables
• Grafik Apparel Interweaving Art and Fashion
• First Salon event of the year with some Dark Romance.
• CODEFC – Letters from Eelam (Sri Lanka), UN Approved
• Grufts @ Graffik
• “First Cut” exhibition
• The Protester - Sophie Molins
• Arts & Crafts returns to Portobello
• ‘Vive La France’
• Red House Yonder: An Invitation
• Mau Mau Solo Show
• Great Western Studios - May 12
• DIZNI Exhibition: Dysfunctional Irate Zany Neurotic Individuals
• Summer Open Studios
• RBKC commission for Portobello photographers
• Pop Up Cinema is back - London Lo-Fi Season
• High Class Trash
• Religionis Violenta - Exhibition starts today
• Ian Robinson: "Collections" at The Muse
• The Albert: A meanwhile project
• Portobello Wall Public Art Installation: Brief
• Christian Palmer UK Solo Show
• Arts Performance opportunity
• Great Western Studios - News and Events April - July 2013
• Nibfest - the first Notting Hill International Book Festival starts this weekend