Event: Simon Beaufoy takes to the BFI Stage
Run By: BFI
Where: NFT Southbank
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Date: 17th September 2010 - 6.30pm
Simon Beaufoy, the accomplished writer of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire discusses his stellar career to date.
Beaufoy took a BAFTA, an Oscar and just about every other award going in 2009 for his screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire. His work is tonally diverse and always insightful and full of compassion for his characters. He’s won great acclaim for Yasmin, This is Not a Love Song and The Darkest Light, and of course his debut feature script for hit Brit film The Full Monty introduced his precocious talent to the world.
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Following the talk there is also a screening of Slumdog Millionaire.
Adapted from Vikas Swarup’s best selling novel, Q&A. Jamal Malik, an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is about to experience the biggest day of his life on India’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The police suspect him of cheating. How could a ‘slumdog’ know so much? A runaway success, this vibrant, modern love story set and shot in India demands to be seen again and again.
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