Past Events and Screenings

Frontline’s debate, The Digital Economy Act: Changing the Habits of a Generation will focus on where the act will go now with a coalition government: will tough piracy and copyright measures survive? What of the promise of 2Mbps broadband for all? The Labour peer, film producer and former CEO of Columbia Pictures Lord Puttnam, who introduced several amendments to the Bill in the Lords debates, will be joined in the discussion by Conservative peer, Lord Lucas, who tabled several of the Bill’s most radical amendments.

Starsuckers a darkly humourous and shocking exposé of the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it.

Bhutto is the definitive documentary that chronicles the life of one of the most complex and fascinating characters of our time. Hers is an epic tale of Shakespearean dimension. It’s the story of the first woman in history to lead a Muslim nation: Pakistan.

Seeking to understand ‘why they hate us’, the US military adopts a new strategy of cultural awareness to win over the hearts and minds of the Iraqi and Afghan people. Controversy erupts when academics embed with combat troops and the war comes home to the university.

Daniel Schwartz has travelled and documented the Central Asian republics since the early years of their independence from the Soviet Union. His artistic book about the region Travelling Through the Eye of History captures the ancient allure of the old Silk Roads and the modern-day realities from Xinjiang province to the Caspian Sea, via Afghanistan. This event will be moderated by Steppe magazine associate editor Mitchell Albert.

View in iTunes Tickets booked for the original date of May 19 are still valid for this event. The media industry has never faced more uncertainty or doubt over its future than now. And nowhere is that anxiety more felt than in local and regional print and broadcast publishing. Labour’s plans to revolutionise local TV […]

The War is Over is an intimate narrative that reflects the common immigrant experience in the age of globalisation. Can a good man hold up under the excruciating pressures of war, exile and deportation? Will he be able to rebuild his life abroad and make sense of it?

Shot a few weeks after the end of Israel’s January 2009 offensive, this sensitively crafted doc captures the human suffering and devastation wrought on Gaza’s Palestinian residents as they struggle daily to survive.

The Frontline Club are thrilled to be hosting the London premiere of the tenth annual Media That Matters festival, a showcase of 12 short films on social issues for multiplatform distribution

Join us for another of our First Wednesday discussions: lively public meetings that bring together experts and commentators and mix their views with contributions from our audience. We’ll be discussing the domestic and international challenges facing modern Iran.

  A welcome return to the Frontline Club for Jewish Comedian Ivor Dembina with his remarkable show about the Middle East conflict ‘This is Not a Subject for Comedy’. Best described as a ‘story with jokes’,  the narrative uses humour to tell how a young Jewish man from Hendon, north London brought up to love Israel […]

Director George Gittoes meets the locals and gets up (too) close to the clash of Fundamentalism and entertainment, virtual and real, in this off beat doc-drama, which takes us on a totally surprising, sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying journey, into the forbidden zones of Pakistan’s North West Frontier.

Can violence be used to stop the tribal, ethnic and religious conflicts that have flared up in cities around the world? What can be done once counter-insurgency has run its course in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and beyond?

Fatima Bhutto, writer, political commentator and outspoken critic of Pakistan’s current regime will be at the Frontline Club in conversation with Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC Pakistan correspondent between 1998 and 2001 and author of Pakistan: Eye Of The Storm, to talk about her new book Songs of Blood and Sword and her vision for the future of Pakistan.

In association with the BBC College of Journalism, the Frontline Club is bringing top journalists who are expert in their field and craft, to talk about their stories and the journalism that has shaped their careers. In the fifth of this inspiring new series Vin Ray, director of the BBC College of Journalism, will be in conversation with International Editor for Channel 4 News Lindsey Hilsum.

Made over 15 years by club founders Vaughan Smith and Richard Parry the film is an intimate journey with war photographer Robert King, following his ambition to win the Pullitzer Prize for photography in the most dangerous warzones of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

View in iTunes There’s no shortage of news around at the moment, but is anyone making anyone any money from it? As the print-based media come to terms with a shrinking advertising market and a promiscuous digital audience, many are looking to high-end devices such as Apple’s iPhone and iPad, which touches down in Britain […]

Join us at the Frontline Club for a discussion in association with Communications INC about the aftermath of “climategate” the roles played by science, politics and the media.

Part of our Alternative View season, Loose Change 9/11 – An American Coup is the feature-length version of the controversial series that looks into the various theories surrounding 9/11. Vanity Fair said the series “just might be the first Internet blockbuster” and millions of people have followed the films since the first installment five years ago. We want to look at whether these viewpoints have a place within mainstream media.

Meet Dr. NakaMats, octogenarian, demi-god in his native Japan, and the world’s most prolific inventor, holding over 3300 patents. Edison by comparison had only 1,093. Some of his most famous include: the floppy disk, the CD, the DVD, the taxi cab meter, Cinemascope and even Karaoke. Here, in a vivid, often comic tour de force, Danish filmmaker Kaspar Asrtrup Schröeder takes us through the eccentric world of the great man.