Following a January packed full of short filmmaking, Kino’s famous open-mic short film night returns to Vibe Live on Thursday 2nd February. Get yourself on the ‘I’m attending’ list via our Facebook here. For those not familiar with the Kino thing, we don’t watch anything we screen in advance of the night, so the programme [...]
2012, the New Year, a blank page? Sure it’s the year of the Olympic Games (Hoorah? Booo?), the year Mayans and John Cusack believe the world will end meaning potentially only 10 more Kinos! Unless like this month we host another Kino double bill Challenge Week! But it’s also the year you’ve promised to be [...]
In the week in which we kicked-off our big filmmaking challenge at London Short Film Festival, Film of the Week this week is – appropriately – the results of the first monthly challenge film that we ever handed out. At Kino #26, back in spring last year, we challenged a team of people at the [...]
Each month at our open-mic screening we ask the audience to write down film ideas that they’d like to see produced and screened at Kino. Then, in a wonderfully democratic way, we pull a few out of the hat and have people vote for their favourite. During the interval we invite anyone who wants to [...]
Christmas with Skeletor is our little guilty pleasure for this time of year. 1, because we love it, and 2, because it’s so close to home. Director Oliver Smyth has been screening his shorts with us for over two years now, and he also made the lovely little Kino London ident that we play on [...]