I've jsut received the following press release for anyone jammy enough to be in London in the early part of November.

PICTURE HOUSE PRESENTS THE 2nd LONDON GYPSY FILM FESTIVAL

Picturehouse is pleased to announce the second annual London Gypsy Film Festival at The Ritzy (Nov 2-4) and Greenwich Picture House (Nov 9-11). First held in January, 2006, at Brixton's Ritzy cinema and Greenwich's Picture House, the Gypsy Film Festival was a huge success. Festival curator Garth Cartwright, author of Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians (Serpents Tail), a book hailed as the definite text on Balkan Roma culture, again gathers rarely seen European films and documentaries – most never having had a UK screening.

Features will screen on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. On Saturday and Sunday afternoon the Ritzy will host screenings of three documentaries from both Serbia (Saturday) and Romania (Sunday). Sunday night (Nov 4) finds The Ritzy launching Roma Decade, an exhibition of black and white photography of Hungarian Roma by Zsuzsanna Ardó (www.ardo.org). This will be followed by Hungarian films. The Ritzy's upstairs café will also host a feast of Gypsy-themed music across the weekend.

The Gypsy Film Festival celebrates Romany culture and the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015: supported by nine European countries, the European Commission and the UN, this project aims to challenge racial stereotypes and increase tolerance.

                                     GYPSY FILM FESTIVAL: RITZY NOVEMBER 2-4th

Friday, Nov 2, 7.15pm: I EVEN MET HAPPY GYPSIES (Skupljaci Perja) - groundbreaking 1967 Cannes Award winning Yugoslav film gets a rare UK screening. Huge influence on Emir Kusturika. 94 minutes

Ritzy Café: Princes Amongst Men DJs (Garth Cartwright, Leon Parker)

Saturday, 3rd, 3pm: SERBlAN SOUL - 4 documentaries by Serbian film makers on Roma communities and music making. THE CHILDREN OF THE BRASS BAND VILLAGE involves Roma kids learning to play brass in a Southern Serbian village; THE CHILDREN OF BLOCK 71 focuses on the kids of a Roma squatter camp in Belgrade; GUCA is a magnificent celebration of Guca brass band festival 2006; ESMA: QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES focuses on Esma Redzepova, celebrated Queen of the Gypsies, and the wedding of her keyboardist, Elvis. First UK cinema screenings for 2 of the documentaries. 95 minutes in total.

Saturday 3rd, 6.30pm: THE WAY THE ROAD BENDS . . . TALES OF A GYPSY CARAVAN: Jasmine Dellal's superb documentary crosses between 5 different Gypsy artists on tour in the US and their lives back home in India, Spain, Macedonia and Romania. Director will present film and host Q&A. 120 minutes

Ritzy café: Walking Wounded – live London Gypsy folk-punk band.

Sunday 4th, 3pm: ROMANIA ROCKS - 3 documentaries from Romania. GYPSY CHILD BRIDES looks at the extremely controversial matter of marrying Roma girls as young as 12 in Romania. GYPSY WITCH looks at the nation's fortune tellers and their clients. IAG BARI/BRASS ON FIRE – celebrated Romanian brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia leave their village to conquer the world. Liviu Tipurita, director of Gypsy Witch & producer of Gypsy Child Brides, will host a Q&A on the documentaries. 110 minutes

Pre-evening screening the upstairs cafe will host the launch of Hungarian                           photographer Zsuzanna Ardo's exhibition Roma Decade, 5.45pm

Sunday, 4th, 6.30pm: HUNGARIAN HEART double bill CYMBALOM LEGACY (documentary) & DALLAS AMONGST US (feature). Mano Camon, director of Cymbalom Legacy, will present his film. Dallas is an excellent 2005 feature, directed by Robert Pejo. Neither film has had a UK screening. 140 minutes

Ritzy café: Gundula Gruen & Alejando Toledo present a live Balkan music session after films.

GYPSY FILM FESTIVAL: GREENWICH PICTURE HOUSE November 9-11

Friday night: I EVEN MET HAPPY GYPSIES (Skupljaci Perja)

Saturday night: THE WAY THE ROAD BENDS . . . TALES OF A GYPSY CARAVAN

Sunday night: BALKAN FEVER (a mix of the best documentaries: CYMBALOM LEGACY, GUCA, CHILDREN OF THE BRASS BAND VILLAGE, CHILDREN OF BLOCK 71). 115 minutes
Booking: www.picturehouses.co.uk                            www.myspace.com/princesamongstmen2007