Brighton Hip Hop Festival

Classic films such as Wildstyle and new works like Death Of Dynasty will be shown at Brighton's Duke if York's Picturehouse and the Odeaon cinema, West Street, throughout July.

The film festival has been organised by Michelle Da Costa (who produced the Biggie and Tupac documentary showing on July 27) and Callum Reid.

Fancy yourself as a bit of a breakdancer? See how it's done in The Freshest Kids: History Of The B-Boy (PG), a definitive film about breakdance, featuring pioneering performances as well as present-day action (Odeon, tonight, 11.30pm).

The powerful drama Slam (15) follows poet/MC Saul Williams through a journey of American inner-city projects and prisons (Duke of York's, Sunday, 1.45pm).

Next weekend you can catch Style Wars (PG), the undisputed king of graffiti culture films (Odeon, July 15, 11.30pm), plus the now legendary Wildstyle, which was the first film to show hip hop to the world and it certainly got the scene noticed (Odeon, July 16, 11.30pm). Films showing throughout the rest of the month include the double-billing of Terra Fabulous (15), about the Brighton-based graffiti crew New Team, and Scratchin' The Surface (12), a look at Japan's burgeoning hip hop scene (Duke of York's, July 22, 11pm).

And urban music fans should not miss Freestyle - The Art of Rhyme (15), a documentary on MCing (Duke of York's, July 23, 11pm), Biggie and Tupac (15, Duke of York's, July 27, 6.45pm) and in a move closer to home, South Coast (12), a study of the Brighton and South coast hip hop scene (Odeon, July 29, 11.30pm).