I'm watching Living with the Tudors at SXSW
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I'm taking a break from VC2 UK to visit SXSW festival in Austin and watch some films. I'm sat in the Alamo cinema in Austin waiting for Living with the Tudors to start. (It's a great cinema, you can order food and they bring it to you while you're watching the movie!)
Karen Guthrie, co-director of Living with the Tudors, is here in Austin and has been showing true dedication by donning her tudor dress to promote the film around town! If you're here, you should definitely try and take in a screening.
Here's the synopsis:
After 4 years of participation as costumed historical re-enactors, Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope were given unprecedented access with their cameras to the UK's oldest and largest historical re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in rural Suffolk. Among the 500 volunteers spending their summer holidays re-creating every conceivable walk of 16th century English life, they met a core of fiercely loyal and protective re-enactors whose real life stories form a fascinating counterpoint to their chosen 16th century roles: they include Tissy, a former airline security guard who becomes the serene 'lady of the manor'; Danny, a disaffected teenager who transforms into the gentlemanly and rather camp Master Riece, and Sue, a solicitor who never wants to leave the manor.Shepherding through the thousands of paying visitors who keep Kentwell afloat, is owner Patrick Phillips, a distantly paternal leader who describes the epic spectacles as his 'games'.Shot over an idyllic English summer, this refined portrait shows us what these secretive enthusiasts are escaping from - and to.
Karen Guthrie, co-director of Living with the Tudors, is here in Austin and has been showing true dedication by donning her tudor dress to promote the film around town! If you're here, you should definitely try and take in a screening.
Here's the synopsis:
After 4 years of participation as costumed historical re-enactors, Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope were given unprecedented access with their cameras to the UK's oldest and largest historical re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in rural Suffolk. Among the 500 volunteers spending their summer holidays re-creating every conceivable walk of 16th century English life, they met a core of fiercely loyal and protective re-enactors whose real life stories form a fascinating counterpoint to their chosen 16th century roles: they include Tissy, a former airline security guard who becomes the serene 'lady of the manor'; Danny, a disaffected teenager who transforms into the gentlemanly and rather camp Master Riece, and Sue, a solicitor who never wants to leave the manor.Shepherding through the thousands of paying visitors who keep Kentwell afloat, is owner Patrick Phillips, a distantly paternal leader who describes the epic spectacles as his 'games'.Shot over an idyllic English summer, this refined portrait shows us what these secretive enthusiasts are escaping from - and to.
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