Celebrity chef documentary Feast or Famine, going behind the scenes of London restaurant Angelina and its quest to win a coveted Michelin Star, has been announced among the first wave of feature titles selected for SXSW London.
It is among a trio of world premieres unveiled for the SXSW London Screen Festival, alongside Jason James’s crime-comedy feature All Night Wrong, starring Maria Bakalova and Zach Cherry, and Alex Kahuam’s supernatural horror The Remedy will also debut at the festival.
The screen program is one prong of the UK SXSW spin-off which will unfold in and around the city’s Shoreditch neighborhood from June 1 to 6.
Another 14 titles which have received buzzy international debuts over the past six to eight months, will make their UK premiere.
These titles include Hijra, from ground-breaking Saudi director Shahad Ameen; TIFF selections Amoeba by Tan Siyou and Maddie by John Early as well as AI documentary Intelligence Rising from Oscar and BAFTA winning filmmaker Elena Andreicheva. (Scroll down for full list)
“SXSW London Screen Festival is not designed to be just another film festival. What we’re building here is a bridge between international talent and the UK, between film and the wider creative industries, and points of connection between film, music, art and technology,” said Anna Bogutskaya, Head of Screen at SXSW London.
“London is a global city, and cinema is an international language. What we’re looking for — and what we are excited to bring to London audiences this summer — is that electricity of discovering something truly groundbreaking from places they weren’t looking in.”
In other news related to the feature film program, Irish actress-producer-director Sharon Hogan and screenwriter and producer Russell T Davies have been unveiled as keynote speakers, joining Neon founding head Tom Quinn, who was announced last week.
Feature Film Titles
World Premieres
- Feast Or Famine (Dir: Adrian Choa & Michael Boccalini) (UK) Documentary
- The Remedy (Dir: Alex Kahuam) (US) Film
- All Night Wrong (Dir: Jason James) (Canada) Film
UK Premieres
- Amoeba (Dir: Tan Siyou) (Singapore, The Netherlands, France, Spain, South Korea) Film
- Becoming (Dir: Zhannat Alshanova) (Kazakhstan, France, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Sweden) Film
- On The Road (Dir: David Pablos) (Mexico) Film
- Father (Dir: Tereza Nvotová) (Slovakia) Film
- Hijra (Dir: Shahad Ameen) (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, UK) Film
- It Would Be Night In Caracas (Dir: Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás) (Mexico) Film
- Maddie’s Secret (Dir: John Early) (US) Film
- Remake (Dir: Ross McElwee) (US) Documentary
- Sicko (Dir: Aitore Zholdaskali) (Kazakhstan) Film
- Whistle (Dir: Christopher Nelius) (Australia) Documentary
- The Whisper (Dir: Gustavo Hernández Ibáñez) (Uruguay, Argentina)
- La Carn (Dir: Joan Porcel) (Spain) Film
- Barrio Triste (Dir: Stillz) (Columbia, US) Film
- Intelligence Rising (Dir: Elena Andreicheva) (UK) Documentary
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