Berlin Film Festival – Winner of Grand Prix for Best Film, Generation 14plus Zurich Film Festival – Winner of the Golden Eye, Focus Competition & Zurich Churches Film Prize Written and directed by Fred Baillif, LA MIF (The Fam) is an intimate, naturalistic drama that offers a glimpse of life within a residential care home for at-risk teenage girls. The powerful and moving film received its world premiere at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix for Best Film in the Generation 14plus competition. At the recent Zurich Film Festival it won the Golden Eye…
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London’s historic Battersea Arts Centre is pulling out all the stops this year, to celebrate the festive season with fabulous style! Alternative cabaret darling Jonny Woo (The Glory) is creating a brand new show for Battersea Arts Centre, to see us through what can be the darkest time of year. It’s been two years now since the world has fully embraced the Xmas spirit and Woo’s going to make the most of it with the help of Olivier Award-winning composer Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer, The Opera), comedian and singer Sooz Kempner and cabaret artiste Kevin Davies. Party cabaret turns, lipsyncs…
Tottenham Hotspur is proud to introduce N17 Arena – a vibrant community space and talent ID centre in the heart of Tottenham. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LChCPL3KWo Located at the south-east of the stadium campus, on the corner of Park Lane and Worcester Avenue, N17 Arena consists of two first-class Mini-Pitch System™ modular sports solutions, with accompanying floodlighting, provided by Musco, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium’s Official Field of Play Lighting Supplier. An Astroturf pitch that will be used as an inner-city football talent ID centre by the Club’s Academy and Global Football Development team A revolutionary playing surface made from over 18,000 recycled trainers, delivered…
There was a time, exactly 40 years ago, that a pandemic started and almost no one noticed, and cared. ‘The Normal Heart’ is late activist and writer Larry Kramer’s first and most hard hitting and true story about the AIDS crises in its infancy. It showcases the desperation, the urgency , the mysterious disease that was striking down mostly gay men, and the extreme sorrow and loss that so many of these men (mostly young) went through, up until. The play is right in your face, and tells it like it is, and is an excellent production. The opening scene…
Synopsis A girl with unusual powers has been locked up in a mental hospital for over a decade… one night when a blood moon rises she awakens her from an ancient slumber and breaks free to re-join modern-day civilization in the wet swampy streets of New Orleans. She makes her way barefoot and empty handed like a hungry newborn into the adventure and chaos of the French quarter, where she will cross paths with the many strange inhabitants of this hedonistic city, while searching to understand where she belongs in this world, and who is a real friend. Directed by…
2020, was a year where we have all been challenged in one way or the other, yet it has left a lasting impression on all of us whether we like it or not. On the positive, it has made us appreciate ever more how beautiful our planet truly is, and if each and every one of us takes care of it, how wonderful it will continue to be. The Fashion Industry is the second largest polluter in the world. Fresh water and ocean pollution, accumulation of textile waste, greenhouse emissions are just a handful of examples of how the industry…
With just ten days until the film’s cinema release, Universal Pictures is pleased to make available ‘Warriors’, a new featurette from the highly-anticipated Halloween Kills, which releases nationwide on October 15. https://youtu.be/tqYHLT5mV4M In 2018, David Gordon Green’s Halloween, starring icon Jamie Lee Curtis, killed at the box office, earning more than $250 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing chapter in the four-decade franchise and setting a new record for the biggest opening weekend in history for a horror film starring a woman. And the Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet. Minutes after Laurie Strode (Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak)…
Coventry’s newly-refurbished Drapers’ Hall is to host the UK premiere of an immersive family theatre show set in a travelling library for Coventry City of Culture. Celebrating a love of books and the journeys they take us on, The Lost Lending Library arrives in the city from Monday 25 October to Saturday 6 November, created by Punchdrunk Enrichment for children aged six to eleven. Children, their families/carers and school groups are invited inside a theatrical world exploring The Lost Lending Library’s many fantastical departments filled with books and curiosities. A fictional librarian and library guardian are searching for imaginative young…
This new fantasy TV series with a stellar cast is part of the 65th BFI London Film Festival (October 2021) for their first ever LFF SERIES programme, a selection of 8 brand new international works made in the episodic form. Produced by Les Films de l’Instant and co-produced by ARTE France and Versus Production, THE ROPE is co-written and directed by Dominique Rocher, and boasts a strong international cast featuring established stars and rising new talents. WILD BUNCH TV is handling worldwide sales. A small group of scientists on a remote base in Norway uncovers a mysterious rope, apparently endless,…
Film Love, Dad takes its director Diana Cam Van Nguyen back to her childhood days. Back then, her father used to send her affectionate letters from prison. Now years later, she replies to him – blaming him for family break-up but also trying to understand. https://vimeo.com/565348136 Using a very unusual technique for her film, combining live-action with various animation techniques, the author touches the tension between Vietnamese traditions and Western values. Love, Dad premiered at Locarno Film Festival in August 2021, got an honourable mention for female filmmakers at Toronto IFF. Screenings at another 16 festivals have now been confirmed,…