[Recommended Program!] Focus on UK
SSFF & ASIA staff will be introducing recommended events and screenings in the run up to the festival ♪
This time it is the Focus on UK
Focus on UK
Recently, British-born talents have been particularly active in the film industry, as directors, actors and actresses. For this year’s program focusing on UK short film, we will deliver a broad selection of films spanning documentary, animation, drama and other genres. We hope you enjoy these top quality works from the UK. Photographer Jason Bell’s directorial debut “Hollywood Portfolio,” created for the magazine “Vanity Fair,” will be shown as a special screening. This film stars 44 British actors and actresses representing the UK, such as Eddie Redmayne, an Academy Awards® winner this year, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
“Hollywood Portfolio”
Synopsis: The British invasion of Hollywood is upon us! Fashioned like a World War II-era newsreel, complete with barking narrator and vintage footage, this is a film in three parts. See the Brits preparing for war, going off to America to infiltrate the film industry, and, finally, assuring victory. This is the first time that Vanity Fair has created a short film specially for the Hollywood Portfolio.
*Japanese only