In a golden age of documentary, why are so many struggling at the UK and Ireland box office? screendaily.com/features/in-a-…

I've just watched #ICouldNeverGoVegan . A genuinely brilliant film. Clever, engaging, funny, infuriating and - for the first time I've ever seen on screen - covering all the essential issues, while getting the facts right. A must watch.
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🗞️ “The homeless organisations were appalled by me because they thought I was a kind of secondhand car dealer” — Big Issue co-founder John Bird speaks on starting The Big Issue in the 90s and what the homeless charity landscape looked like at the time.

📽️ Scenes from the Q&A with Big Issue co-founder John Bird, Leader of SouthamptonCC Councillor Lorna Fielker, and Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son Producer Claire Lewis, hosted by former councillor and current Labour candidate Gordon Cooper.

📽️ We’re thrilled to announce a very special screening of Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn at West London’s gorgeous Ladbroke Hall, preceded by a unique performance of Fanny’s unpublished piano music. This event is hosted in partnership with Steinway & Sons UK.

🗞️ Amazing coverage of the Pickering brothers’ I Could Never Go Vegan in Plant Based News last week. The film will premiere at the Curzon Soho on 10 April and will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s cast and crew hosted by Peter Egan. Get tickets at icouldnevergovegan.co.uk

🎞️ THIS SUNDAY: Fanny at at Stroud Film Festival

🗓️ Sunday 10 March, 7:30 PM
📍 Lansdown Hall, Stroud GL5 1BB
✨ Followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Sheila Hayman.

🎟️ Get tickets while they last at stroudfilmfestival.org/events-2024/20…

Read Simon Kuper’s brilliant Financial Times article on homelessness referencing @SomeonsSonDoc at someonesdaughterfilm.org

🧳 Meet Omar. Omar came to the UK from Jamaica with high hopes for his marriage until his relationship broke down and he ended up homeless in Birmingham. Omar managed to get himself off the streets by working as a Big Issue vendor, which he still does to this day.

⏳ It’s time we put an end to homelessness — email your MP (and get tickets to upcoming screenings) at someonesdaughterfilm.org

🎞️ We’ve got a big night ahead of us next week, as Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son screens at ten Curzon across the country as part of the ‘Curzon Home Cinema Presents’ series. Get your tickets while they last at someonesdaughterfilm.org

🫶 Thank you all so, so much for your incredible response to our UK cinema and digital release of Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son. You’ve packed out our screenings and have been so wonderful at our Q&As, and now you folks at home have gotten us to no. 4 on Curzon Home Cinema’s Top 10 list!

💫 Thank you Morning Star for naming Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son the paper’s ‘Film of the Week’ last week and for the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review!

🌐 Full review and tickets to screenings on someonesdaughterfilm.org