A British Screen Film Finance/Film Four production from cult British director Ron Peck (Night Hawks/Fighters), Empire State is a perfect mix of gangster action and the high camp of the eighties East End club scene at The Empire State nightclub in London’s newly developed Docklands, a place where disparate lives intersect. Illusory, dangerous and glamorous, it is both the playground of the rich, and an escape from the poverty and squalor of the toughest reaches of the city. The Empire State is also the arena for a fierce struggle between the hard men who for decades ran the East End, and the new breed of racketeers. They’re prepared to do anything to get control, and the fight for power will end with one of the most brutal orgies of violence the East End has ever seen…

Against the backdrop of gathering menace, Chuck, an American with £3 billion to spend, toys with potential investments, while a young boy, Pete, comes to London to find his friend, who has disappeared in the entrails of the Empire State…

With inspired casting including Ray McAnally, a young Jamie Foreman, Martin Landau, Cathryn Harrison, Perry Fenwick plus an early screen appearance from Sadie Frost, you can relive the mayhem of eighties East End London in all its dirty glory, with a glorious soundtrack featuring music from New Order, Jimmy Somerville and Yello.

Director: Ron Peck

Writers: Ron Peck & Mark Ayres

Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Jason Hoganson, Jamie Foreman, Sadie Frost and Elizabeth Hickling

Genesis Cinema, 93 - 95 Mile End Road, Whitechapel, London E1 4UJ

8:30pm, Mon 7 March, 2011

Over at the Genesis Cinema website