The final day of Plymouth’s Flipside film festival (May 21-31) will be devoted to the work of legendary filmmaker, DJ, author and cultural alchemist Don Letts.

The afternoon will feature screenings of two of Don’s feature films at the Plymouth Arts Centre. Groundbreaking drama Dancehall Queen will be followed by his Grammy-winning documentary Westway To The World.

There will also be a panel discussion of Don’s work and plenty of opportunity to pose your questions to the man himself. Don will also be giving readings from his bestselling autobiography Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers.

An inspiring and fascinating fella, Letts came to notoriety in the late Seventies as the DJ who single handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae.

He adopted the punk DIY ethic to make his first film, The Punk Rock Movie, which was (and is) the only documentary on the UK punk scene, featuring the Sex Pistols, The Clash and loads of others.

He currently presents a weekly radio show on 6 Music and still DJs nationally and internationally.

Tickets for the afternoon shenanigans cost £6 / £4.50 NUS & Unwaged.

The evening event is Flipside’s closing party at Bar Favela on Mayflower Street in Plymouth (yknow, where Good Companions used to be).

Don Letts will headline a DJ set, with support from DJs Crusty and Dirty Arry.

Tickets for the closing party cost £5, or £4 with a ticket stub from the afternoon event.

Ten per cent of the proceeds from the closing party will be donated to the Bristol Computers for Palestine charity.

Check out D+CFilm over the next few days to find out about some of the other filmmakers involved in the Flipside festival.

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