Director Christopher Amos & WildBear Entertainment invites you to join them for special encore theatrical screenings for the general public and AACTA members of the critically acclaimed documentary Hating Peter Tatchell, starring Ian McKellen & Stephen Fry will take place across Australia. Gold Coast Director Christopher Amos and Peter Tatchell will be taking part in Q&As following screenings.
BRISBANE – Date: Monday 29 August 2022
Arrivals: from 6:00pm, for a 6:30pm start
Venue: New Farm Cinemas, 701 Brunswick Street, Brisbane
CAIRNS
Date: Thursday 1 September 2022
Arrivals: from 6:00pm, for a 6:30pm start
Venue: Event Cinemas, 21 McLeod Street, Cairns
MELBOURNE
Date: Saturday 3 September 2022
Arrivals: from 6:00pm, for a 6:30pm start
Venue: Victorian Pride Centre, 81 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne
Book Tickets > www.tatchellmovie.com
Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sydney Mardi Gras Queer Screen’s Film Festival and Winner of Best Original Score at the Documentary at the International Sound & Film Music Festival, Hating Peter Tatchell is one of this year’s must-see documentaries, is now streaming on Netflix.
Nominated for multiple awards including Best Feature Length Documentary at the Screen Producers Australia Awards and Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Director’s Guild Awards. A contender for this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema, Television Arts (AACTA) Awards for Best Documentary.
From executive producers Elton John and David Furnish, Hating Peter Tatchell is the powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil disobedience rocked the British establishment, and revolutionise attitudes to homosexuality and exposed world tyrants.
Featuring an amazing array of rare archives and an intimate conversation between celebrated actor Ian McKellen and Peter himself, as well as evocative interviews with the likes of former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, activist Angela Mason, and actor Stephen Fry, this film explores what motivates Peter Tatchell’s lifelong fight for equality.
The documentary follows Peter Tatchell’s childhood life, his relationship with his mother and his influences in Melbourne, Australia, including his involvement in the movement against the Vietnam War and the draft in the 1960s.
Hating Peter Tatchell also includes Peter’s confrontations with Mike Tyson (2002) and Robert Mugabe (1999 and 2001), his Bermondsey by-election bid for parliament in 1983 (the most homophobic election in British history), staging the first LGBT+ protest in a communist country (East Germany 1973), and his Easter Sunday protest in Canterbury Cathedral in 1998 against the anti-gay policies of the then leader of the global Anglican church, Archbishop George Carey.
The film shadows him as he embarks on his bid to protest at the FIFA World Cup in Moscow in 2018, to draw attention to the persecution of LGBT+ people in Russia and Chechnya. We witness his arrest near Red Square and the Kremlin.
Peter Tatchell said: “I collaborated with the film because I wanted to show that social change is possible and how to do it. I hope it will inspire a new generation of change-makers. It is a snapshot of my thousands of protests and campaigns over the last five decades, since the late 1960s. I’ve done my bit, as have many others. Together, we’ve changed laws and attitudes on LGBT+ issues.”
Director Christopher Amos added: “Peter has often spoken out on controversial human rights issues when others have stayed silent. The film reveals him as a shining example of how one person truly can make the world a better place.”
Some of the buzz around the film includes:
Sir Ian McKellen – “I hope it’s obvious how much I admire his tireless work on behalf of us all.”
Elton John & David Furnish – “We were so overwhelmed with emotion. It was fantastic! It’s so compelling – and such a harsh contrast to the disappointing times we are living in. An important cinematic milestone that properly celebrates a true hero.”
Stephen Fry – “It’s magnificent. Truly inspiring. It is one thing to have accumulated so much footage and such fine contributions, but you have put it together with such skill, flair, and brilliance. It tells the story perfectly, without a frame of longueurs or drops in narrative drive.”
Hollywood Insider – “Hating Peter Tatchell is an absolutely gripping documentary that had me wrapped into the life of the charismatic Peter Tatchell and his commendable and important cause instantly.”
The film’s producer, Veronica Fury of WildBear Entertainment, commented: “Hating Peter Tatchell has been a terrific team effort and we are thrilled to have had the support of Sir Elton John and David Furnish as part of that team, as well as our partners at Screen Australia, Screen Queensland, the Melbourne International Film Festival and Netflix. We are proud to have produced this very topical and resonant feature doc about a truly inspiring man.”
Hating Peter Tatchell received principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with WildBear Entertainment and was financed with support from the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund and Screen Queensland.
