Alicia Vikander set to attend BFI Presents Q+A of James Kent’s Testament of Youth
Following December’s announcement about the first in a series of “BFI presents…” events to screen Testament of Youth ahead of the film’s general release The Fan Carpet have exciting news to share with you.
Director James Kent, Baroness Shirley Williams, Producer Rosie Alison And Leading Lady Alicia Vikander will be attending the Q&A to be broadcast via satellite around the UK on Monday.
You can tweet questions to attendees using the event’s dedicated hashtag #TestamentofYouthLive, or can book tickets now in their local cinema here
TALENT CONFIRMED FOR SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING OF TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
ON MONDAY 12 JANUARY
DIRECTOR JAMES KENT, BARONESS SHIRLEY WILLIAMS, PRODUCER ROSIE ALISON
AND ACTRESS ALICIA VIKANDER
LIVE Q&A WITH AUDIENCES IN CINEMAS ACROSS THE UK
The BFI and Lionsgate UK are delighted to confirm that Director James Kent, Baroness Shirley Williams, producer Rosie Alison and actress Alicia Vikander will all attend the very special screening of the critically acclaimed TESTAMENT OF YOUTH on Monday 12 January.
The event is the first in a major new programme called BFI Presents, and will give audiences across the UK the opportunity to put their questions to the filmmakers via a live satellite link that will see the event simultaneously beamed into cinemas nationwide.
Audiences at BFI Southbank and in all participating cinemas across the UK will be encouraged to live tweet their questions using the dedicated hashtag for the event: #TestamentofYouthLive
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, which was feted by critics and audiences alike following its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October, is released in cinemas across the UK on Friday 16 January.
The 12 January special preview screening of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH is the first example of BFI Presents, an exciting new pilot project designed to give audiences exclusive access to great new British films and the people who made them – and to support the UK film industry by helping to help grow audiences for independent films.
ABOUT TESTAMENT OF YOUTH – IN CINEMAS JANUARY 16
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain which became the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A powerful and passionate journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again; a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother’s close friend Roland Leighton as they go to University to pursue their literary dreams. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front Vera realises she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country, so volunteers as a nurse. She works tirelessly, experiencing all the griefs of war, as one by one her fiancé, her brother and their closest friends are all killed and the pillars of her world shattered. But, an indefatigable spirit, Vera endures and returns to Oxford, irrevocably changed, yet determined to find a new purpose, which spurs her towards a redemptive act of remembrance.
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH HITS CINEMAS JANUARY 16 COURTESY OF LIONSGATE
ABOUT LIONSGATE UK
Lionsgate U.K. is the diversified U.K.-based filmed entertainment arm of Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment studio. The company (formerly Redbus Film Distributors) was acquired by Lionsgate in October 2005 and has since established a reputation in the U.K. as a leading producer and distributor and acquirer of commercially successful and critically acclaimed product, recently releasing the record breaking blockbuster hit “THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY pt1”, British hit comedy “WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY”, “THE EXPENDABLES 3”, “LOCKE” starring Tom Hardy, “THE RAILWAY MAN”, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman and the BAFTA and ACADEMY AWARD nominated ‘THE INVISIBLE WOMAN’ starring Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones. In 2013 the company’s diverse slate included the second instalment of the blockbuster franchise “THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE” starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson as well as Ariel Vromen’s ‘THE ICEMAN’,Nicholas Winding Refn’s ‘ONLY GOD FORGIVES’ and Jon S. Baird’s “FILTH” starring BIFA award winning James McAvoy.
Upcoming 2015 releases include “TESTAMENT OF YOUTH”starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington, “MORTDECAI”, the Alan Rickman directed “A LITTLE CHAOS” and the last instalment of The Hunger Games franchise “THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY pt2”.
Its prestigious and prolific library of nearly 13,000 motion picture titles and television episodes – including Mad Men, Anger Management, Nurse Jackie and Weeds – is a valuable source of recurring revenue and a foundation for the growth of the Company’s core businesses – film production and distribution, TV programming, home entertainment, family entertainment and video-on-demand content. The Lionsgate U.K. brand is synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the globe.
ABOUT BFI
The BFI is the lead organisation for film in the UK with the ambition to create a flourishing film environment in which innovation, opportunity and creativity can thrive by:
• Connecting audiences to the widest choice of British and World cinema
• Preserving and restoring the most significant film collection in the world for today and future generations
• Championing emerging and world class film makers in the UK - investing in creative, distinctive and entertaining work
• Promoting British film and talent to the world
• Growing the next generation of film makers and audiences