Date: Thursday 22nd January
Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Address: 93-95 Mile End Road, E1 4UJ
The British Urban Film Festival has announced that the race relations activist and former Equalities advisor to the Mayor of London Lee Jasper will host the BUFF preview screening of the civil rights drama ‘Selma’ on Thursday 22nd January at the Genesis Cinema in London’s East End. Joining Lee for the post-screening Q&A will be Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (Metro), Emerson Forde (film critic) & Akua Gyamfi (editor, The British Blacklist.com).
Selma is the first studio film which centres on the Selma to Montgomery marches led by Martin Luther King at the height of the civil rights unrest in America 50 years ago.
The film stars David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Common, Oprah Winfrey & Tim Roth. The movie has already received 4 Golden Globe nominations (David Oyelowo for best actor, Ava Duvernay for best director, Common & John Legend for best song and Selma for best film). The film will be released in the UK from 6th February 2015 by Pathe UK.
Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe, director and founder of the British Urban Film Festival commented, “We are thrilled to begin our 10th year of urban film coverage with such a landmark film. It is an honour to be working with Lee Jasper and with institutions like Pathe, Kush Films and the Genesis Cinema to make this event possible”.
For more information about free tickets, click here.
Selma is released in the UK on 6 February.
