Hastings Online Times

A Bold Peace

Hastings Against War invites you to our screening of A Bold Peace (2016), a documentary about Costa Rica’s path to demilitarisation. In a country with no military, another way to live beckons to the world… Rona Drennen writes.

Posted 08:22 Sunday, Dec 2, 2018 In: Film Tags: A Bold Peace, Costa Rica, Costa Rica's Peace Journey, Hastings Against War, Huffington Post, Robert Koehler, Rona Drennan

Young Electrics host ‘mystery’ screenings at Electric Palace

Meet the ‘Young Electrics’, a new group of 10 young people from around the Hastings area who convene at the Electric Palace cinema in Hastings Old Town to learn about film programming, explains Annie Waite.

Posted 05:45 In: Film Tags: Annie Waite, cinema, comic, East Sussex, Electric Palace, graphic novel, Hastings Old Town, Julia Andrews-Clifford, Marjane Satrapi, Perseoplis, school, Young Electrics, youth

Me, Myselfie & Others

You are warmly invited to attend the premiere of Me, Myselfie & Others, a film created by young people at Hastings Academy as part of an aGender Education project in partnership with The Eggtooth Project, funded by Hastings & Rother Reducing Health Inequalities Fund.

Posted 23:22 Wednesday, Nov 14, 2018 In: Film Tags: aGender Education, Hastings and Rother Reducing Health Inequalities Fund, Me Myselfie and Others, The Eggtooth Project

Andrew Kötting’s trilogy: Earthworks

Andrew Kötting, Hastings’ master of magical realism, will be showing his film trilogy, ‘Earthworks’ on Saturday 17 November at the Towner Art Gallery Cinema: an all-day event, starting at 11am, in conjunction with Brighton Cinecity.

Posted 20:06 Sunday, Nov 11, 2018 In: Film Tags: Andrew Kotting, Brighton Cinecity, Chandra Masoliver, Dudley Sutton, Earthworks, Ivul, Lek and the Dogs, This Filthy Earth, Towner Gallery

Lek and the Dogs: ‘They said he had a disrupted mind’

Andrew Kotting’s film Lek and the Dogs,

Posted 15:30 Tuesday, Oct 9, 2018 In: Film Tags: Alan Moore, Andrew Kotting, Chandra Masoliver, Hattie Naylor, Ivan and the Dogs, Kino-Teatr, Krapp, Lek and the Dogs, Nick Gordon Smith, Radio 4, The Slade, Xavier Tchili

Finding Camille puts the focus on Alzheimer’s

Local film-maker Bindu De Stoppani hosts a special screening at the Electric Palace cinema this weekend of her latest feature, Finding Camille. Here, Annie Waite hears about Bindu’s process for creating this moving, intimate and at times heartbreakingly humorous on-the-road journey of a father and daughter getting to know each other.

Posted 15:58 Wednesday, Sep 19, 2018 In: Film Tags: 28 Days Later, Alzheimer's, Annie Waite, Bindu de Stoppani, British Independent Film Awards, carer, Danny Boyle, dementia, electric palace cinema, Finding Camille, Jump, Michael Fassbender, My Summer of Love, The Beach, The Virgin Suicides, Wild

Concrete Soldiers: free film screening and discussion

When it comes to issues like gentrification and social cleansing, it is a good idea to learn from past experience to help stop it happening again. HOT’s Erica Smith talks to Rossana Leal from Heart of Hastings about a film which explores the housing crisis which is being screened at The Bridge Community Centre on Saturday 14 April.

Posted 19:20 Wednesday, Apr 4, 2018 In: Film Tags: Broomgrove, BUD Team, community, Concrete Soldiers, empowerment, Failed by the State, gentrification, Grenfell, Hastings, Heart of Hastings, Nikita Woolfe, Ore Valley, power station site, Rossana Leal, Social cleansing

Flying The Flag: Arming The World

Hastings Against War offers an opportunity to watch the film, Flying the Flag: Arming the World by John Pilger. This film is over 20 years old but worthwhile viewing to remind ourselves of the UK arms industry then and now. HOT’s Zelly Restorick writes.

Posted 20:04 Sunday, Mar 25, 2018 In: Film Tags: Campaign Against Arms Trade, Chris Cole, Defence and Security Equipment International, DSEI, ExCel Centre, Flying The Flag: Arming The World, Hastings Against War, John Pilger, Stop The Arms Fair