The inaugural Ilkley Film Festival, of which Dame Judi Dench is patron, opens its box office for ticket sales on Monday (January 13). The film festival will have more than 20 events and screenings which will transform Ilkley’s King’s Hall on Station Road and Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Road, into working cinemas over the Valentine’s Day ...
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Plot for Peace UK is a documentary thriller that tells the true, untold story behind Nelson Mandela’s release from prison featuring a protagonist straight out of a John LeCarre novel. His name: Jean-Yves Ollivier, alias “Monsieur Jacques”. To some, such as South Africa’s former President Thabo Mbeki, he was a mysterious French businessman and sanctions ...
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‘It’s to help mark the 100th anniversary of his film The Tramp,’ actress and Vogue cover star Kiera told me at last week’s African Oral History Archive screening of Plot for Peace UK, a film about the fall of apartheid. ...
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…‘I’m not losing the garden. They have their own beautiful garden,’ a reassured Princess Michael, 68, told me at the London premiere of the movie Plot for Peace UK. ...
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We’re all in this together. Princess Michael of Kent, who was at the Curzon Mayfair last night for a special screening of the Nelson Mandela documentary, Plot for Peace, has raised eyebrows after claiming she too is going through “very austere economic times”. ...
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The 7th edition of Cinéma Vérité, the Iranian international festival for documentary films, will screen “Plot of Peace”, a documentary on the recently deceased former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. ...
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An Iranian director is planning to make a documentary on the South African hero Nelson Mandela’s memorial proceedings and funeral ceremony. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/16/340248/iran-to-film-mandela-memorial-ceremonies/ ...
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With Mandela biopic just around the corner, it seemed that little was yet to be known about the history of the South African leader. Wrong guess. Plot for Peace put some well-deserved highlights on some side characters who played a key role in his release. ...
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