OFFBEAT Fest is where film culture, both past and present, meets with the most quintessentially offbeat music: jazz. Where there’s a jazz soundtrack you can guarantee what’s happening on the screen is going to be unconventional, improvisational, cool or just plain bad. From A Bout de Souffle to Alfie, from Bird to Birdman, the impact on independent-minded cinema has been huge. Through a diverse series of events, OFFBEAT looks to extend this concept to encourage a broader interaction between the worlds of creative music and the moving image in 'live' multimedia performance and education initiatives. Through a series of screenings, multimedia events, discussions, education initiatives and ‘live’ performances, OFFBEAT Fest seeks to engage with a very broad audience who are passionate about film and music, and take them on a unique, stimulating visual-audio ride. OFFBEAT will look to stage events both creatively stimulating as well as enjoyable and accessible at many of the diverse venues and open-air spaces throughout London with an initial emphasis on Dalston, with its dynamic, creative diversity and pulsating jazz and experimental live music scene. OFFBEAT will present their first film festival in the summer of 2017.
