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Crying with Laughter Screening and Q&A

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT)

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Crying with Laughter Screening and Q&A

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Royal Television Society Midlands Centre presents a screening of the award-winning Crying with Laughter. A Q&A session with lead actor Stephen McCole, Britfilms' Amir Bazrafshan and Synchronicity Films' Writer/Director Justin Molotnikov will follow where they will discuss the making of the film as well as digital distribution. Event producer and RTS Mids Hon Sec Mars Elkins will chair. With thanks to The Electric Cinema, Birmingham for providing the venue.

Synopsis

Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life begins to unravel.

Already struggling with an addiction to cocaine, he’s barely able to cope with the responsibilities he shares with his ex-wife Karen when it comes to looking after their young daughter, Amy. When his landlord promises to evict him for not paying his rent, Joey retaliates that night during his act, threatening to kill the man in front of a captive audience.

Things spiral further out of control when Joey wakes up the next day and is arrested for Grievous Bodily Harm. His landlord is in hospital with a fractured skull and the police have witnesses as to Joey’s abusive threats. To make matters worse, Joey has no memory of what happened. Looking for help, he turns to Frank Archer, a former friend who has recently walked back into his life. Together at military school 25 years earlier, Frank is keen that he and Joey get reacquainted and offers to take him into the home he shares with his much younger girlfriend Colette. But as Joey finds out, friendship is the last thing on Frank’s mind.

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The Electric Cinema
47–49 Station Street
B5 4DY Birmingham
United Kingdom

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT)


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The Centre provides an ideal forum where members can discuss the current developments in their own fields, learn more about the work of others and discover the latest developments in technology and equipment. People of diverse interests and of all ages and experience are encouraged to join us.

From September to June we hold a series of lectures, discussions, workshops and visits on a wide range of subjects, all relevant to television. They reflect the interests of the membership and include productions, technical, craft and topical general interest items. These meetings are always free at either BBC Birmingham in the City Centre's Mailbox or ITV Central in Gas Street, Birmingham, with other venues for special occasions.

The Midlands Centre has recently been extended to cover more Eastern counties, adding Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire to the existing Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire.