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OPENING NIGHT RED CARPET: EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF
BEATRIZ AT DINNER
THURSDAY 1 JUNE 2017
ATTENDED BY
Lead actress SALMA HAYEK
Director MIGUEL ARTETA
Screenwriter MIKE WHITE
Venue: Picturehouse Central
Media pens open: 4.45pm / close 5.30pm
Photographers’ draw: 5.30pm
Red carpet arrivals: 6.00pm
Guests seated: 7.00pm
Beatriz at Dinner reunites director Miguel Arteta and screenwriter Mike White (School of Rock, Nacho Libre), who
worked together on earlier Sundance Film Festival hits The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck. The film stars Salma Hayek
(Frida, Tale of Tales) as the eponymous ‘Beatriz’ alongside John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Chloë Sevigny and Jay
Duplass.
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health
practitioner in Southern California. Don Strutt is a real estate developer whose cutthroat tactics have made him a
self-made, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two polar opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide and
neither will ever be the same.
To register for accreditation, please contact Megan Jones at Premier:
[email protected] or Tel: +44 (0) 20 7292 8330
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: LONDON takes place at Picturehouse Central from 1-4 June.
www.picturehouses.com/sundance
Sundance Film Festival London: 2017
The festival will present 14 feature films direct from this year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A.,
selected for London by the Sundance Institute programming team in collaboration with Picturehouse. The festival
will open with the International premiere of Miguel Arteta’s Beatriz at Dinner, and it will close four days later with
the UK premiere of David Lowery’s critically acclaimed A Ghost Story, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara.
Continuing the focus of the four previous London editions on presenting new work by emerging and established
independent filmmakers, the 2017 festival will also include a short film programme with 15 shorts, including a strand
dedicated to new UK shorts. The films collectively received 7 awards when they premiered at the Sundance Film
Festival in Park City, Utah, including the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic (Crown Heights) and Audience Award: U.S.
Documentary (Chasing Coral).
For the first time, the programme will include a “Surprise Film” screening which promises festivalgoers an exclusive
chance to catch an audience hit from this year’s festival in Park City. Additionally, the Sundance Film Festival: London
will introduce an Audience Favourite award for 2017, giving festivalgoers the chance to vote for their favourite
features, with the winner announced at the close of the festival.
The Special Events programme comprises three panel events and an "In Conversation" event with renowned guests,
providing incredible insights into the filmmaking process. The “Independent Film Trumps Reality” panel will examine
independent filmmaking in the current political climate, involving directors at the festival whose films have gained a
new level of currency in the age of Trump, while the “On Collaboration: Documentary Practices and Process” panel
(presented by Dropbox) will explore the themes of diversity, accessibility and progress in documentary, and the short
filmmaker panel “Art vs. Stepping Stone” (presented in association with London Short Film Festival) will pose the
question, “Are shorts simply a stepping stone or do they sustain a filmmaker throughout a career?” Acclaimed
director David Lowery, whose highly anticipated film A Ghost Story will close the festival, will participate in an "In
Conversation" event (presented in association with
Empire magazine) which will be followed by a special screening of his earlier feature, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.
Further Festival information is available at picturehouses.com/sundance
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