Long-running and diverse the Fifth Annual Doc’n Roll Film Festival will take over London this 1 to 18 November across ten of the city’s best-loved movie houses. Doc’n Roll London 2018 will screen 28 music documentaries that spotlight the icons and rebels of Afghanistan, Wales, Ethiopia and Ukraine; tell the stories of the groundbreaking record labels Blue Note and Trojan; map the worlds of grindcore (Slave To The Grind), metal (RockKabul) blues, Detroit techno, “she-punks” and Kirtan mantras; and go behind the scenes with artists including Slow Club, Silvana, Sepultura, the Wedding Present, Chilly Gonzales, Badly Drawn Boy and Blondie’s Clem Burke. Watch a bunch of awesome trailers and get the full details below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=7Qf1pr_AuuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV1eruG0yuU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgpL1loMCq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ORUKP3BR0&t=6s https://vimeo.com/218723564 https://vimeo.com/291567144/634fdbbeeb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbEIBE-L0o   This year’s edition includes 25 world, European, UK and London premieres, filmmaker and artist Q&As and live music events. 2018 also marks Doc’n Roll’s debut collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery, in an exclusive event celebrating the world premiere of Kojey Radical, a short film by renowned photographer and filmmaker Dean Chalkley. Doc'n Roll Film Festival was launched in 2014 by founder Colm Forde to show some long-overdue love to the countless under-the-radar music docs being ignored by risk-averse film programmers. Colm comments: “Our 5th London edition is the culmination of five years of relentless DIY spirit - blood sweat and tears from ourselves and a passionate volunteer group of independent film and music fanatics. Along the way, we've grown an ever expanding young audience of underserved fans across the UK, while inspiring many flattering imitators and upsetting the industry dinosaurs! Our programme of 28 premiere films includes 16 first-time directors who champion the power of music and film as universal languages of hope and inclusion. We are also delighted to bring these amazing films on tour in 2019 to many alternative music cities including Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Brighton and Nottingham – come and get 'em...!” Doc’n Roll programmer and festival CEO Vanessa Lobon Garcia says: “This is our fifth year of giving music lovers the opportunity to watch these films as they were designed to be watched – LOUD. We’re hugely proud to present an incredible line-up of films that represent who we are and what we stand for at Doc’n Roll, via the diversity of music subcultures represented. Doc’n Roll London’s fifth edition celebrates first-time filmmakers who bring a wide range of stories and themes to the screen – love and war, creativity and conflict, depression and hope, gender, equality, family and friendship – through the shared channel of music. These films allow us to travel to other countries, lives and cultures. If you love music, then you’ll love Doc’n Roll.” Six films premiering this year have been shortlisted for the Best Music Documentary 2018 prize, judged by a jury panel of Geoff Travis (founder, Rough Trade Records), Estella Adeyeri (musician and sound engineer), Kirsty Allison (poet and music journalist), Oli Harbottle (Head of Distribution, Dogwoof) and Jess Partridge (PRS Foundation and London in Stereo). Kicking the festival off in fine style on 1 November is the world premiere of Slow Club – Our Most Brilliant Friends at the Barbican Centre, featuring a Q&A with the band’s Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson and director Piers Dennis. Tickets on sale from Friday 28th September via http://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/ Quick Listings: Thurs 1 Nov, 6.45pm – Barbican Centre Our Most Brilliant Friends (World Premiere + Q&A) Slow Club Fri 2 Nov, 6:30pm - The Photographers’ Gallery Kojey Radical short film (World Premiere + Q&A) Fri 2 Nov, 9pm – Genesis Cinema We Are The League (How Deep Do You Want It?) (World Premiere + Q&A) Anti-Nowhere League Sat 3 Nov, 3pm – Curzon Soho Some Other Guys - The Story of The Big Three (London Premiere + Q&A) The Big Three Sat 3 Nov, 4pm – Rio Dalston Something Left Behind (London Premiere + Q&A) The Wedding Present Sat 3 Nov, 6.30pm – Picturehouse Central My View: Clem Burke (London Premiere + Q&A) Sun 4 Nov, 2.30pm – Genesis Cinema RocKabul (UK Premiere + Q&A) Sun 4 Nov, 4pm – Barbican Centre Mantra: Sounds into Silence (UK premiere + Q&A) Sun 4 Nov, 5.30pm – Rio Dalston Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records + Q&A Wed 7 Nov, 8pm – Everyman King’s Cross Cinema Never Stop – A Music That Resists (UK Premiere + Q&A) Detroit Techno followed by after party at Spiritland Thur 8 Nov, 6.30pm – Picturehouse Central I Can Only Be Mary Lane (UK Premiere + Q&A) Thur 8 Nov, 8.45pm – Barbican Centre Anorac (London Premiere + Q&A) Welsh-language pop music Friday 9 Nov, 6.30pm – Picturehouse Central Is It Punk Music? (UK Premiere + Q&A) Cassels Sat 10 Nov, 3.00pm – The Castle Cinema Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records Sat 10 Nov, 3.30pm – Barbican Centre Anne Clark: I’ll Walk Out Into Tomorrow (UK Premiere + Q&A) Sat 10 Nov, 6pm – Curzon Soho Silvana (London Premiere + Q&A) Sat 10 Nov, 7pm – Genesis Cinema Stories from She Punks (World Premiere + Q&A) Sun 11 Nov 3pm – Picturehouse Central Blue Note Records – Beyond the Notes (London Premiere + Q&A) Sun 11 Nov, 4pm – Rio Dalston Sepultura Endurance (UK Premiere) Sun 11 Nov 5pm – Curzon Soho The Library Music Film (London Premiere + Q&A) Mon 12 Nov, 8.45pm – Barbican Centre Chilly Gonzales – Shut Up and Play The Piano + Q&A Tue 13 Nov, 8.30pm – Rich Mix My Darling Son: Morski & The Turbans (UK Premiere + Q&A) Wed 14 Nov, 6.30pm – Picturehouse Central Myth (UK Premiere + Q&A) Vasyl Slipak Opera Singer Wed 14 Nov, 8.30pm – Rich Mix Slave to the Grind (London Premiere + Q&A) Grindcore Thur 5 Nov, 8.45pm – Ritzy Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records Thur 15 Nov, 9.10pm – Picturehouse Central About a Badly Drawn Boy: The Story of The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (London Premiere + Q&A) Sat 17 Nov 1pm – Ronnie Scotts Blue Note Records – Beyond the Notes + Q&A Sat 17 Nov, 4pm – Picturehouse Central How They Got Over: Black Quartets and the Road to Rock’n’Roll (UK Premiere + Q&A) Sat 17 Nov, 6.30pm – Genesis Cinema So, Which Band Is Your Boyfriend In…? (London Premiere + Q&A) UK Female DIY and underground scene Sun 18 Nov, 4pm – Bertha Doc House Pure Love: The Voice Of Ella Fitzgerald Sun 18 Nov, 5.30pm – Curzon Soho Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul (UK Premiere + Q&A) Sun 18 Nov, 6pm – Picturehouse Central Listen To My Song (World Premiere + Q&A) Ex FARC Colombian musician Esteban Read the full article