declarationfilmfest

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FILM FESTIVAL:
FINAL LINE-UP ANNOUNCED

American independents are coming to the Capital. From 1st to 7thJune 2007, a selection of films which have graced the screens of major film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, South-by-South-West and the American Film Institute will be shown at two venues in the heart of Central London.

The Declaration of Independence Film Festival will offer Londoners the chance to see original and exciting films from the USA and Canada for the first time, with seventeen international premieres being screened.

The festival offers feature films with an independent spirit, such as Sweet Land (Dir: Ali Selim) with Alan Cumming and Alex Kingston, winner of the 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Everything’s Gone Green (Dir: Paul Fox), a sublime and witty Vancouver-set comedy, the screenwriting debut of Generation X author Douglas Coupland. Flannel Pajamas (Dir: Jeff Lipsky) an intimate and brutally honest portrait of a relationship with Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk. Man In The Chair (Dir: Michael Schroeder) a multi-award winning feature that fires on every level - visually inventive, tough-minded, sincere and full of heart, featuring a wicked sense of humour and stand-out performances from Christopher Plummer and Michael Angarano.

There are also ground breaking documentaries on controversial subjects such as US pharmaceutical companies, living with AIDS and the war on terror, alongside a selection of diverse short film programmes.

The festival will take place at the Renoir Cinema and the nearby alternative arts venue, the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury.

Visit the festival website to watch trailers for the films and for a schedule of events: www.declarationfilmfest.org

Steve Crook

Shouldn't it be up to those that attend to say if it's exciting or not? :
Good luck with it anyway

Steve

ChristineCB

We saw MAN IN A CHAIR and I will definitely want to see that again, but then again, drop Christopher Plummer in and let him do what he wants, and it's probably a great performance even if he's just sitting on the couch, chatting.

Moor Larkin

I remember that back in the late sixties, seventies, there used to be some good stuff from Canada: TV movies that were much 'jazzier' than a lot of British stuff but didn't have the twee tidiness of much US output. Most of them seemed to credit the Film Development Council or somesuch........ Then of course there was Cronenberg's Shivers (1975)

Patrick McGoohan seems to have spent a lot of time in Canada as well. In the theatre programme for his 1959 'Brand' it mentions him flying out to perform in a television version of The Iron Harp for CBC, then of course he popped up in Kings and Desperate Men (1981) and Scanners (1981) and nearly forty years on from his 1959 trip: Hysteria (1998))

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