INTERMISSION YOUTH: Shakespeare on Smartphone
Tuesday 19th January 2021
CROWN, dir. Abigail Sewell
Free. Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Bridge of Spies) hosts Intermission Youth’s young filmmakers and BAFTA nominated producer Sorcha Bacon (Wren Boys) in a discussion around first-time film making, smartphones and Shakespeare as inspiration.
2020 saw us hit with extraordinary events that have affected each and every one of us. From a deadly virus to a global equal rights movement, our world - its systems and its people - are being challenged.
Social media played a massive part in spreading both positivity and negativity this past year. In response, Intermission Youth founded a filmmaking initiative putting Shakespeare to screen with its makers’ smartphones, and this panel will be punctuated by their resulting ten smartphone-made shorts, each inspired by a line of Shakespeare.
Intermission Youth gives disadvantaged young Londoners the tools to make positive choices and become the best version of themselves through drama, film and mentoring.
Films:
21:24
Baba Oyejide, Tristram Anyiam
2020
United Kingdom
Inspired by Chazz Palminteri’s screen play A Bronx Tale and lines from William Shakespeare’s Richard II, this is the story of a young black male, Bobby Kingsley, torn between the easily fascinating gangster lifestyle and his reformed, incarcerated older brother’s advice.
BLOODY NOSES
Rakiya Hasan
2020
United Kingdom
Bloody Noses is not a film about boxing but instead, about two fighters battling with paralysing fear and anger. For these two young people, what happens during a fight is controlled not by tactics, but by the rage produced by the many challenges they face in their lives.
