French music, vietnamese food, East end video stores

During my travels round London making a nuisance of myself with posters and flyers, I came across the most awesomest video rental store. i didnt think you get places like this anymore since TODAY IS BORING closed down.

http://www.close-upvideos.com/

shout out to Nina/Neena behind the counter of this Brick Lane store who told me they get like 50 new members signing up every week to their rental service - goes to show that film loving on a physical format is thankfully still alive!! (Terracotta's release of HANSEL AND GRETEL was on display there and apparently rents quite well too!).

all we need is some of those people to come to our festival to explore Far East film on the big screen; guilty customers please contact us via:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=72515635834

Also goes to show the changing face of brick lane in becoming a spawned offshoot of what hoxton&shoreditch used to be, (lights years before it became a west-end clone).

Talking of Shoreditch - thankfully the constant remains - the Vietnamese Noodle places.

Hopefully a leaflet of the festival left in every outlet along Kingsland Road will help to boost their trade! "Try a prawn steamed roll (banh cuon) whilst you read your copy of the Terracotta Festival 09 flyer."

if anything, flyering is a fun job. you get to meet people instead of sat at a desk and computer stressing about some report or spreadsheet that someone on the 5th floor of your building wants by 6.30 on friday evening.

shouts out to Paul at film london, Lee theTea doorman, roberto the taekwondo bloke, the nice people in the brick lane coffee shop who let me put up a poster on the wall below their photo of bruce lee (my father went to school with him, you know), Lee from the vietnamese grocers (get your rice and soya sauce from the kingsland rd viet grocers if you live near there).

On an altogether more serious note, fans of AIR and NOUVELLE VAGUE will be delighted to know that Xavier Jamaux, a french musician who has collaborated with those groups AND written the score to SPARROW, our closing film by hong kong cinema maestro Johnnie To, will also be a guest at our festival.

we hope to see him in action being a DJ on one of our party nights.

do check the above facebook link for all info regarding parties (including a manga cosplay party!).