Posts Tagged ‘East London’

I found this video on youtube, a parody of the danger of knife crime, although this video is making light of a very serious situation, it does it very well, the writing is spot on, very clever and very witty, and the acting ISN’T CHEESY! Which is a ray of light to short film making [...]


Gang Turfs

14Apr10

I found this shocking interactive google map showing the different gang ‘turfs’ in East London. This first shot shows a large area of all the gang lands highlighted: These two below show the TWO gangs in the area in the place where I live and am shooing my documentary. The red circle indicated where I [...]


Stabbed Update

13Apr10

An update of the boy from youth church who was stabbed during a ‘postcode gang war’ on Saturday. We have just found out he was actually stabbed 9 times, no news of yet on his condition.


I found this video online, which is a documentary about post-code wars in hackney made in 2007. There is also a supporting webpage here. One of the featured teenagers, Joseph Pilgrim, is actually someone I know, and went so school with. The film made by BBC Inside Out London, tells the story of postcode gangs, [...]



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