Past Events

On January 15th, 2024 we held our sixth First Film Club event at Picturehouse Central in London. The packed screening event was delivered in partnership with BFI Network, Film London and Triple Exposure. Both Asif and Suga joined us for a candid Q&A, discussing their culturally-rich stories, the power of storytelling and the challenges of low budget filmmaking.

On July 3rd, 2023 we held our fifth First Film Club event at The Ritzy Brixton in London. The packed screening event was delivered in partnership with BFI Network, Film London and Triple Exposure. Both Ben and Julia joined us for a candid Q&A, discussing their grounded stories about familial drama, crime and the power of storytelling.

On April 12th, 2023 we held our fourth First Film Club event at Picturehouse Central in London. The sold out screening event was delivered in partnership with BFI Network, Film London and Triple Exposure. Both Nia and Karl joined us for a candid Q&A, discussing their female-led stories about marginalisation, the power of vulnerability and developing their films with Sundance and BFI. 

On March 12th, 2020 we held our third First Film Club event at The Ritzy in Brixton. Only one day earlier, the WHO declared a Global Pandemic and London was preparing for lockdown measures to be announced. Both Gurinder and Toby joined us for lively Q&A, exploring their careers past, present and future, and this event will surely be lodged in the memories of all who attended as a joyous last hurrah before everything changed.

We were delighted to be joined by Amma Asante and Tracy Kiryango at The Phoenix Cinema for our second event on October 28th, 2019. With Amma's debut feature and Tracy 's debut short, we were able to explore what it means to be a Black, female filmmaker in Britain both now and at a time when the UK Film Industry had only afforded distribution to one Black, British, female filmmaker before Amma (Ngozi Onwurah) as well as the themes depicted in each of their works, and what the future holds.

Our first event, held on July 17, 2019 at The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley was where it all began. With an audience of filmmakers and film fans, spanning multiple generations, we knew we were onto something special. Joined by the inimitable Mike Leigh and award-winning writer, director and actress Florence Keith-Roach, the First Film Club made its own debut which we'll no doubt be talking about for years to come!