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Everybody to Kenmure Street left this year’s Sundance Film Festival pinch a awesome award successful World Cinema Documentary competition: a Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance.
The civilian guidance successful mobility is this: On nan greeting of May 13, 2021, agents from nan UK’s Home Office attempted to behaviour an migration ambush successful Glasgow, Scotland, seizing 2 Sikh men and hauling them disconnected to an awaiting van. But residents of Kenmure Street weren’t having it. Led by “Van Man” – a mysterious individual who latched clasp of nan vehicle’s axle – residents of nan thoroughfare surrounded nan agents and refused to fto them pass. Thus began a standoff pinch repercussions that would beryllium felt successful nan UK, nan U.S. and anyplace governments are trying to demonize immigrants for governmental gain.
Director Felipe Bustos Sierra joins nan latest version of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to talk his film, which besides has screened astatine nan Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival successful Greece, nan Glasgow Film Festival, Doc10 successful Chicago, nan Miami Film Festival and is group to surface June 3 and June 10 astatine nan Sydney Film Festival successful Australia. It also, importantly, screened successful Minneapolis, wherever earlier this twelvemonth ICE agents changeable dormant 2 unarmed U.S. citizens.
Bustos Sierra, who lived successful Glasgow astatine nan clip of nan Kenmure Street raid, tells america why he initially felt nan protestation had nary chance of success. And he explains really he yet contacted Van Man, whose personality remains secret, and really he sewage Oscar victor Emma Thompson to play him successful nan documentary (she’s besides an executive shaper of nan film).
Bustos Sierra, whose parents were exiled from Chile during nan dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, tells america why Glasgow mightiness person been nan worst spot successful nan UK for nan Home Office to behaviour an migration raid. As he explains, it’s been a crossroads of nan world for centuries, becoming location to successive waves of Scots Highlanders, Irish, Jews, Southeast Asians and different groups. And they person a contented of sticking up for their community.
Everybody to Kenmure Street opened theatrically connected May 22 successful New York and will beryllium released successful Los Angeles and further cities successful nan coming weeks.
Heed nan telephone of Everybody to Kenmure Street on nan caller section of Doc Talk hosted by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s elder documentary editor. The pod is simply a accumulation of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.
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