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“I Made This For You” Available to Watch for Free to mark World Suicide Prevention Day
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I Made This For You, a searingly honest British feature film that tackles mental health, depression and suicide head on is now available to watch for free on Youtube globally. The release marks World Suicide Prevention Day and will be showing on the platform for a month until World Mental Health Day on October 10th. Watch the film here: https://youtu.be/SWLhoUr2vCM I Made This For You follows a man, played by Gary Grant (Enemy Lines), who cuts himself off from his friends and family and has recently attempted suicide. He is pulled back from the edge by a documentary made about his life by a friend, played by director Cristian Solimeno (Guilt, Rush, Footballers Wives). His friends also include Alison Newman (Eastenders, Footballers Wives) , Dermot Murphy (Animals, The Drummer and The Keeper), Francis Magee (Star Wars: Rogue One, Game of Thrones) and West End star Siobhan Dillon (Cabaret, Grease, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon). The film within a film mixes reality with fiction in a unique and groundbreaking way. Despite the seriousness of the subject, what results is something funny, beautiful and deeply cathartic that provokes action and conversation. |
Following the film, Director Cristian Solimeno also created the #imadethisforyou social campaign. The campaign invites people to take a moment out from their lives to try and make something for someone who is going through a hard time and share these acts of kindness for the week of World Suicide Prevention Day. The aim is to create an explosion of love, kindness and creativity that empowers people to reach out and gives us the confidence to actually try. It can be a cake, a card, a jumper or a song. The point is to make things with other people in mind and to give these things away to show you care. Random acts of kindness count and can make a real difference. I Made This For You will is available NOW for FREE on Youtube: https://youtu.be/SWLhoUr2vCM #imadethisforyou |
UK VOD Release: Waiting for the Barbarians
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Festival News: The Book of Vision
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UK DVD Release: The Guard of Auschwitz
0High Fliers Films have announced that their latest war drama, The Guard of Auschwitz, will be available on DVD from 6th May.
The Guard of Auschwitz is directed by Terry Lee Coker (Hatton Garden the Heist) and stars Lewis Kirk, Claudia Grace Mckell and Michael McKell.
Hans was a grade A student, but now he is an SS officer stationed at the infamous Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. The Guard Of Auschwitz is a harrowing story of the human spirit’s ability to survive even the most horrific of situations.
The Guard of Auschwitz will be available on DVD from 6th May.
Release Date: | 6th May |
Director: | Terry Lee Coker |
Cast: | Lewis Kirk, Claudia Grace Mckell & Michael McKell |
Credit: | High Fliers Films |
Genre: | War drama |
Cert: | 15 |
Running Time: | 90 mins |
RRP: | £9.11 |
Release Platforms: | DVD |
Review: The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
1The Old Man & the Gun is a 2018 Crime Drama written and directed by David Lowery and starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover and Tom Waits. The script is based on the New Yorker article of the same name by David Grann.
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Redford) and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities (Affleck) and enchanted the public.
Heavily billed as Redford’s final role before retirement, it only makes sense that the film heavily focuses on the acting of its talent.
Redford is of course fantastic, oozing effortless charm and embodying Tucker’s affable but untrustworthy persona. His scenes with Spacek have such a touching believability that their relationship feels almost tangible. The way their eyes sparkle when they look at each is heart-warming and their slow naturalistic conversations are endearing yet long-winded. This isn’t the snappy, precise dialogue that modern audiences are accustomed to, this is slow plodding dialogue fully of pauses and half-finished sentences.
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Review: Green Book (2018)
0Green Book is a 2018 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly and starring Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic, The Lord of the Rings) and Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Marvel’s Luke Cage). The story is based on true events and takes its name from a mid-20th century guidebook for African-American travelers.
A working-class Italian-American bouncer (Mortensen) becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist (Ali) on a tour of venues through the 1960’s American South.
Even whilst dealing with the inevitably heavy racism, the film conforms to the structure of a buddy-comedy road-trip movie, where two characters from two very different walks of life are forced together and become friends over hardships.
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