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The Scouting Book For Boys Preview plus Q&A with director, writer & producer
Tue 23 March 2010
Jack Thorne's The Scouting Book for Boys
One of the unexpected pleasures to be found in last years’ London Film Festival programme, The Scouting Book for Boys is the debut feature from Tom Harper (director of numerous award-winning shorts including Cubs and Cherries), with a screenplay written by playwright and Skins writer, Jack Thorne.
Holly Grainger & Thomas Turgoose in The Scouting Book For BoysHaving grown up together on a caravan park on the Norfolk coast, young teenagers David (Thomas Turgoose) and Emily (Holly Grainger) have become close friends. It's a shock to them both when it's decided that Emily is to be sent away to live with her father, and there's even greater alarm throughout the park community when Emily disappears. The debut feature from The Scouting Book for Boys is an expertly constructed drama with deftly handled shifts in tone, depicting the anxieties, awkwardness and fears of being a teenager, without denying the occasional delights of being young.
(Michael Hayden, The Times BFI London Film Festival)
We’re delighted to be able to invite you to preview The Scouting Book For Boys prior to its release, and join us for an onstage conversation between The Script Factory’s co-director Briony Hanson and Tom Harper, Jack Thorne and the film’s producer, Ivana Mackinnon (Slumdog Millionaire).
The Scouting Book For Boys
Preview plus Q&A with director, writer & producer
Tuesday 23 March
6.45pm
Curzon Soho, Shaftesbury Ave
With thanks to Pathe UK.
Additional tickets for this event can be purchased from
www.curzoncinemas.com