Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, the latest film from Romanian director Radu Jude, is the latest film to receive BFI FAN New Release Support. The social satire will be released theatrically by Sovereign Film Distribution on 26 November.
Since summer 2018, BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) has been supporting four new release films each year to help exhibitors across the UK engage with more diverse audiences and programme titles that they traditionally would not book. BFI FAN members that screen New Release titles receive support from BFI FAN including marketing resources and social media budget.
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. Radu Jude (Aferim!) delivers an incendiary mix of unconventional form, irreverent humour and scathing commentary on hypocrisy and prejudice in our societies. (The title contains strong real sex, nudity, sexually abusive behaviour, very strong language)
Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. He studied filmmaking in Bucharest and started his career as an assistant director. In 2006, he made the short film The Tube with a Hat, winner of more than 50 international awards. Jude’s feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as Aferim!, Scarred Hearts and Everybody in Our Family followed and won multiple awards: Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlinale 2015, Special Jury Prize in Locarno 2016 and an EFA nomination for Best Scriptwriter. The international premiere of The Dead Nation in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (2018) won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinema Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. His latest films, Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă), premiered in Berlinale Forum 2020.
BFI FAN members that screen Bad Luck Banging can expect and request:
- Audio descriptive and captioned versions of the film
- Marketing pack and assets including programme notes
- Pre-recorded 20 min director Q&A available for exhibitors
- Freelance marketing support in every Film Hub area
- Advice from Inclusive Cinema for exhibitors putting on accessible screenings
- Support from BFI FAN’s Young Consultants
- Budget for Facebook/social media ads
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is released on 26 November and can be booked by contacting: chee@sovereignfilms.co.uk
Other new Release titles released in the 2021/22 season include the award-winning Sound of Metal from Vertigo Releasing, Another Round from StudioCanal, Limbo from MUBI and Balloon from Day for Night.
For more information on how BFI FAN can support your screening, visit www.fannewreleases.co.uk to download the marketing pack or email ti.s@watershed.co.uk
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STUDIOCANAL’s Oscar-winning Another Round receives New Release Support from BFI FAN
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Vertigo Releasing’s Sound of Metal receives New Release Support from BFI FAN
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MUBI’s Limbo receives New Release Support from BFI FAN
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Day for Night’s Balloon receives New Release Support from BFI FAN
