KESWICK SCREENING

The UTM team were recently invited up to Keswick for a Q&A at the oldest continuous running cinema in the UK 'The Alhambra' at a film weekend organised by the volunteers of Keswick Film Festival. The cinema was packed and the film got an incredible reception. (The main Festival will be in April – see the website at www.keswickfilmfestival.org)

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UTM documentary wins Award

Making of UNDER THE MUD documentary wins BEST REGIONAL PROGRAMME AWARD from the Royal Television Society. Director Sol Papadopoulos picked up the gong (piece of plastic actually) at a gala dinner on Saturday 17th November. The Granada Editions programme followed MUD writer/actors Lenny Wood and Mick Colligan to the Sonoma and Cannes film festivals and told the story of how this epic film finally got made....

Watch the Granada Documentary 'Making Under the Mud'

'SCOUSERAGE' in LA - UTM screens in Hollywood

LA really is a great big freeway - thanks to Fat Nav Mick Colligan though we never got lost - Hollywood was a blast with a bit of help from Liverpool Acme and Virgin Atlantic four boys from Liverpool set off on their madcap adventure - which ended up including Wildfires that stopped us ever seeing Malibu, A list celebrities, an open mike spot for Lenny and Mick, a Critics Choice award and Venice Beach and all hosted by two of LA's finest - Mal Young and Brian O'Hare....not to mention a master tape that never played.... all to be revealed in more detail soon, meantime enjoy the stills!

REVIEWS

"From the very beginning, this film really grabs you by the bollocks; which is also coincidently the name forced upon the Pott's family dog in UNDER THE MUD. It truly is of the best quality in British comedy, having been time and time again compared with SHAMELESS, though I would have to argue that it is nevertheless unfair as the characters in UNDER THE MUD are in fact much more painfully amusing, and at the same time so much easier to warm to. Truly an uplifting and tragically hilarious home-grown masterpiece."

Review by Thomas Kerr Young Persons Jury Cambridge Film Festival 2007

"With a tip of the cap to early Mike Leigh films and Trainspotting, Under The Mud tells the story of a working class family in Liverpool struggling to keep the family unit together. An exceptionally detailed view of the modern working class British family, the film is one of the best examples of the struggles these families face to stay together. The small victories in life are what keep this family going in spite of the near-daily chaos."

Quote from the Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival 2007

PRESS RELEASE

Under The Mud depicts a hectic day in the life of a family from hell, or are they ‘one hell of a family’? Praised by acclaimed actor / director Kathy Burke, who called the script “a beautiful read”, and hailed by Liverpool writer Jimmy McGovern as “a great achievement”. Under the Mud’s UK premier was held at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on the 9 February 2007.

Shot in and around Speke and Garston, Liverpool - an area with high unemployment with one of the worst teenage pregnancy rates in Europe - the action takes place during a hectic twenty-four hours, and centres around the Potts household - second home to teenage slacker, Magic, who’s such a part of the furniture that his longing for the eccentric beauty Paula Potts goes completely un-noticed. To the love of his life he’s just her twin brother’s best mate. With the family set on a course of self-destruction, aided by an old enemy of dad’s - and Paula arguing with her imaginary friend about running off to Ibiza with the local slime-ball, Magic realises that he only has a few hours to save the family, get the girl and change all of their lives forever.

The film stars Andrew Schofield, Kate Fitzgerald and James McMartin (star of recently released 'Dead Men's Cards' ), as well as some of the film's young writers, most notably up and coming comic actor Lenny Wood in the lead role of 'Magic'.

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