Today #BUFF2013 can officially reveal the line-up of films,
presenters and fixtures confirmed for the 2013 British Urban Film Festival.
Among the line-up are distinguished names from the worlds of independent film,
television and theatre.
#BUFF2013 will have a panel of experts offering opinion and
debate as part of ‘Distribution D-Day’ - the opening event of the festival -
from Channel 4 headquarters in Westminster on Thursday 5 September. Enrico
Tessarin (co-producer of ‘The Knot’) will be joined by fellow movie producers
Alan Mcqueen & Dean Fisher, film festival agent Rebekah Louisa Smith, sales
agents David Cornwall & Sarah Chammartin, entertainment lawyer Tobi Olujunmi,
Nadia Denton from BUFF, and Sarah Chorley from Shooting People – all qualified
to give the best insight to delegates on the subject of distribution. Joining the panel as guest filmmakers will be the brothers
Naeem and Ash Mahmood who will be introducing a presentation on their forthcoming
UK movie ‘Brash Young Turks’.
The 2nd event on day 1 is an encore screening of ‘The Key’
presented by actress Kyla Frye who will be joined by a panel of guests
including Jimmy Akingbola from BBC’s ‘Holby City’ as they discuss what the key
is to succeed in business and entertainment.
The actress Shereen Miranda will introduce the final event
on day 1 at Channel 4 headquarters featuring the live performances of 3 scripts
selected by BUFF as part of this year’s inaugural scriptwriting
competition. The scripts to be performed
will be ‘Face Up’ written by Yvonne Ossei, ‘Lost in Mozart’ by Jeff Nottingham
and ‘The Office’ by Donna Marie Dowe.
On Friday 6 September, Metro film editor Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
will host the live Q&A for the opening night gala movie from Odeon West End
in Leicester Square – the International premiere of ‘Calloused Hands’ starring
Andre Royo from HBO’s ‘The Wire’. Based on the true story of its
writer/director Jesse Quinones, Calloused Hands is about a 12-year-old mixed
race boy from Miami (Luca Oriel) with aspirations to be a baseball player. He
is abused by his mother's boyfriend Byrd (played by Royo), and neglected by his
mother Debbie (Daisy Haggard). He manages to forge his own path in life when
his long-lost grandfather Solomon (Hans Howes) insists he study for his Bar
Mitzvah.
Actor and filmmaker Aml Ameen will also play a part in the
opening night coverage with the UK premiere of his latest short film ‘Hoorah’
in which he stars and directs.
Other BUFF 2013 screenings (to be shown on Saturday 7
September at Oxford House in Bethnal Green) include UK gangster movie ‘Latvia'
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/236308
plus the prestigious BUFF shorts UK
showcase and the preview screening of ‘Quality Control’ (an interactive music
television showcase). Join entertainment journalist Akosua Annobil, the ‘Quality’
man and live performances from some of the featured artists.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/234950
The BUFF shorts to be shown will be Driftwood, Pretty Bitch,
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out, Cha Cha Cha, Love Prevails, The
other side of the wall, 2008, Notes, Been a riot, Glimpse & Ambition to
live.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/234951
Film journalist Jessica Mellor will host the live Q&A
for ‘The Man Inside’ – directed by Dan Turner (also on Saturday 7 September)
starring Ashley ‘Bashy’ Thomas, David Harewood, Ray Panthaki, Michelle Ryan and
Peter Mullan.
Day 4 of the festival (to be shown on Sunday 8 September at
Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel) starts with ‘The Fade’ – a feature length
documentary from the producer of award-winning film ‘David is Dying’ (Andy
Mundy-Castle).
The penultimate screening on Day 4 is BUFF’s 1st
world premiere – the screening of ‘Traveller’ starring musician and actor David
Essex OBE, Billy Cook (son of David Essex) and Jason Maza (‘Victim’/‘The
Knot’). Join Film journalist Jessica Mellor for full coverage including the
live Q&A.
#BUFF2013 closes at the same venue with the UK premiere of
the award-winning mockumentary ‘Bloody Lip’ directed by Adriel Leff and
starring Patrick Koupland. Join writer and actress Anjela Lauren Smith for the
final live Q&A of the festival.
You can watch any film on Saturday 7 September and Sunday 8
September for £10 (+ booking fee) available from Oxford House box office and
Genesis box office respectively.
Alongside the festival (sponsored by Jilali Argan Oil), BUFF
will screen a special preview show on Community Channel presented by Kyla Frye,
Winsome Duncan & Shereen Miranda. Broadcast on the eve of the festival, the
programme will have key interviews with some of the headline makers + special
features including a guest appearance from actor Riz Ahmed. Also showing as
part BUFF’s on-air coverage will be the documentary ‘One Mile Away’ (directed
by Penny Woolcock).
The BUFF shorts to be shown online on Monday 9 September
will be Love Nest, Reckless, The Ting & Sea Change. Also to be shown online (free for a day) is
the movie Woolwich Boys.
#FF @buffenterprises & @JArganOilUK on Twitter for daily updates on the festival coverage
The schedule (sponsored by Jilali Argan Oil):
#BUFF2013 presents… “Countdown to BUFF 2013”
Presented by Kyla Frye, Winsome Duncan & Shereen Miranda
4 Sept/9.00pm/Community Channel (Sky 539/Virgin 233) Also
available on BBC i-player, Youview & BT Vision.
Dir: Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe/Dayo Balogun (60mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “One Mile Away”
4 Sept/10.00pm/Community Channel (Sky 539/Virgin 233)
Penny Woolcock's award-winning documentary charts the
attempts by two warring gangs, the Burger Bar Boys (B21) and the Johnson Crew
(B6), to bring peace to their neighbourhoods in inner city Birmingham. It
follows Penny Woolcock's hip hop musical 1 Day, which was partly informed by
these postcode wars.
Dir: Penny Woolcock (91 mins)
4 Sept/11:50pm/Community Channel (Sky 539/Virgin 233)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Drink, Drugs & KFC” (REPEAT)
Dir: Aml Ameen (27 mins)
5 Sept/00:30am/Community Channel (Sky 539/Virgin 233)
#BUFF2013 presents… “The Healer in Me” (REPEAT)
Dir: Winsome Duncan/Josh Horwood (20 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Distribution D-Day”
Tickets: FREE (chaired by Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe & guests)
5 Sept/2.00pm/Channel 4 HQ/90 mins
#BUFF2013 presents… “The Key”
Tickets: FREE (including live Q&A with Kyla Frye & guests)
5 Sept/4.00pm/Channel 4 HQ/90 mins
#BUFF2013 presents… “The BUFF Live Script Readings”
Tickets: FREE (including live Q&A with Shereen Miranda & guests)
5 Sept/7.00pm/Channel 4 HQ/2 hours
#BUFF2013 presents… “Hoorah” (UK PREMIERE)
Tickets: £11.95
(including ‘Calloused Hands’/INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE + live
Q&A with Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and special guests)
6 Sept/7.30pm/Odeon West End
The opening night gala for BUFF 2013 kicks off with the UK
premiere of short film ‘Hoorah’ directed by and starring Aml Ameen (featuring
soon in ‘The Butler’). Hoorah is about a discharged military veteran who
discovers his wife and best friend murdered when he arrives home. Panicked and
surprised, he calls the police, then begins to investigate the scene for
clues. As he scans the scene he notices
certain objects that look all too familiar. He then discovers a semi-automatic
handgun sitting directly across from the lifeless bodies. The horrific events that took place begin to
unfold.
Dir: Aml Ameen (USA/15 mins)
followed by “Calloused Hands” - Dir: Jesse Quinones (USA/100
mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “The Man Inside”
Tickets: £10 (including live Q&A with Jessica Mellor, Dan Turner & guests)
7 Sept/1.30pm/Oxford House
Clayton Murdoch (played by Ashley ‘Bashy’ Thomas) carries a
terrible darkness inside him. As a boy he was exposed, by his father (played by
David Harewood), to murder and gang culture, With his father now in prison,
Clayton struggles to overcome what he was groomed to become, in a city where
every day there is a constant threat of violence and death. Clayton channels
his aggression into boxing. Controlled, powerful, contained. However, when the
violence starts to destroy his own family, Clayton loses control, and the
darkness within him is unleashed. And now, to get the revenge against those who
have taken his loved ones, he must ask the one man he fears the most for help,
his father. With everything around him falling apart and the full shocking fury
in him let loose, Clayton must look death in the face and find out who is the
man inside. Also starring Peter Mullan, Ray Panthaki, Michelle Ryan, and Jason
Maza.
Dir: Dan Turner (UK/99 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Latvia”
Tickets: £10 (including live Q&A with Shereen Miranda & guests)
7 Sept/4.15pm/Oxford House
If you're looking for a British urban film in its purest form, look no further than Latvia, a film which pulls no punches and is set against the backdrop of love and guns. Set in London, it's the story of two
young men and the greed and violence that corrupts their childhood
friendship. Starring Jack Miguel, Stephen Joseph, Daniel Fleurie, Martha Mackintosh and Tony Resta.
Dir: Barry Derbyshire (UK/84mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Quality Control” (UK PREMIERE)*
Tickets: £10 (including live Q&A with Akosua Annobil, & guests)
7 Sept/6.15pm/Oxford House
Quality Control is the fresh, innovative and daring music
concept that is re-defining the parameters for music programming and allowing
audiences to dictate who they want to see in this quality laden show. The
culmination of nearly two years dogged determination, now sees the brand and
movement that is Quality Control (now supported by The Arts Council) gain
intense momentum within the industry and of course the public through their use
of the exclusively designed mobile app that allows critical social interaction
and creates a unique and alternative QC Music Chart. Produced by 4Front Media, Quality Control is set to be the
next big thing in music entertainment programming whilst taking the
Twittersphere and application world by storm!
Total running time: 90 mins
*Quality Control will also be shown at Channel 4 HQ on
Thursday 5 September at 5.45pm. The Channel 4 screening is an invite-only
event and is not available to the public.
#BUFF2013 presents… “BUFF Shorts UK”
Tickets: £10 (including live Q&A with Emmanuel
Anyiam-Osigwe & guests)
7 Sept/8.15pm/Oxford House
Traditionally, one of the highlights in the British Urban
Film Festival schedule, the UK’s most talented directors in short film come
together to celebrate the pick of this year’s BUFF selections. Join festival
director, Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe for an evening of diversity in action.
The line-up:
Ambition To Live – Dir: Fraser Ayres
Cha Cha Cha – Dir: Ciara Ledward
Driftwood – Dir: James Webber
Pretty Bitch – Dir: Rebecca Coley
Don’t Let The Door Hit You On Your Way Out – Dir: Yannis
Tsakiridis
Notes – Dir: Adam Linzey
The Other Side Of The Wall – Dir: Ryan Thompson
Love Prevails – Dir: Segilola Scott & Edith Nwekenta
Glimpse – Dir: Fraser Ayres
Been a Riot – Dir: Alfie Barker
2008 – Dir: Alfred Mante
Total Running Time: 2 hrs 45 mins
#BUFF2013 presents… “The Fade”
Tickets: £10 (including live Q&A with Akosua Annobil, Andy Mundy-Castle & guests)
7 Sept/3.00pm/Genesis
From the producer of award-winning ‘David is Dying’ comes
‘The Fade’: 4 barbers, 4 lives, 1 story... The Fade is an intimate portrait of
four Afro barbers across the world over seven days. Set in Ghana, Jamaica, USA
and the UK the observational documentary interweaves the stories of the barbers
and examines the polarized opposites of the locations. The result is an
international dialogue chronicling the colourful lives of four men who do the
same thing in different time zones, with very different realities.
Dir: Andy Mundy-Castle (UK/76 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Traveller” (WORLD PREMIERE)
Tickets: £10 (including live Q&A with Jessica Mellor, David Essex OBE, Billy Cook and guests)
8 Sept/6.00pm/Genesis
With a cast list featuring Jason Maza, David Essex OBE and
introducing Billy Cook (son of David Essex), the world premiere of ‘Traveller’
is a film from the heart which chronicles a year in the life of a half-breed
Gypsy as he tries, against the odds, to adjust to the 21st century and leave
his roots behind.
Dir: Benjamin Johns (UK/101 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Bloody Lip” (UK PREMIERE)
Tickets: £10 (including live Q&A with Anjela Lauren
Smith, Adriel Leff & guests)
8 Sept/9.00pm/Genesis
‘Bloody Lip’ is the closing night film for BUFF 2013 - an
award-winning comedy mockumentary from writer Adriel Leff making his
directorial debut and tells the story of working class inner-city middling
professional heavyweight boxer Patrick St George Junior (played by Patrick
Koupland) who has just seven days to prepare for the fight of his life against
childhood rival Liam O'Saink (played by Dominic Koupland) - a bout which, if
triumphant, will result in Junior achieving his life's goal; bettering the
win/loss record laid down by his domineering father Patrick St George Senior
(played by Jon Mckenna) during his own short-lived boxing career. But with a
fractious on-again-off-again relationship with his middle class girlfriend
Bekka Green (played by Bekka Bowling) and a whole heap of pressure from Liam's
menacing promoter Teddy Toddsworth (played by Dominic Mchale) thrown into the
mix, what kind of a mental and physical state will Patrick Junior be in come
fight night? Win or lose, one thing's for sure; by the end of the week, Patrick
St George's life will never be the same again...
Dir: Adriel Leff (UK/52 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Love Nest” (ONLINE EXCLUSIVE)
9 Sept/8.00pm/britishurbanfilmfestival.co.uk
Dir: Mustafa Boga (UK/13 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Sea Change” (ONLINE EXCLUSIVE)
9 Sept/8.00pm/britishurbanfilmfestival.co.uk
Dir: Marinella Setti (UK/24 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Reckless” (SEASON 2 –
EPISODE 3)
9 Sept/8.00pm/britishurbanfilmfestival.co.uk/ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
Dir: Yvonne Phillip/Beau Baptist (UK/12 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents... "The Ting"
9 Sept/8.00pm/britishurbanfilmfestival.co.uk
Dir: Jeremy Cole (UK/4 mins)
#BUFF2013 presents… “Woolwich Boys” (ONLINE EXCLUSIVE)
9 Sept/8.00pm/britishurbanfilmfestival.co.uk
Dir: Anthony Abuah (UK/88 mins)
All listings are correct at time of going to press (14/08/2013) and subject to change.
All films carry a 12A certificate.
COUNTDOWN TO BUFF 2013
ONE MILE AWAY Dir: Penny Woolcock
DRINK, DRUGS AND KFC Dir: Aml Ameen
THE HEALER IN ME Dir: Winsome Duncan
