"Derek" Tonight! Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton produced, wrote and serves as guide of...

The Celluloid Social Club has the honour of co-presenting the following film about the great filmmaker Derek Jarman TONIGHT at 7:00 PM:

'Derek'
20th Anniversary Vancouver Queer Film Festival | August 14-24
Friday, August 22, 2008, 7:00 PM
Emily Carr Institute 1400 Johnston St
For more information and to buy tickets, check out website: queerfilmfestival.ca

Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton produced, wrote and serves as guide of this loving portrait of queer film maverick Derek Jarman – her mentor, collaborator and friend. Swinton and director Isaac Julien (Looking for Langston, Young Soul Rebels) deftly combine home movies, archival footage, scenes from Jarman’s films and interviews with Jarman himself to create an insightful look at his life and work.

In classic interviews Jarman speaks frankly about his time as an art student in London during the swinging 1960s, his emergence as a filmmaker of homoerotic and controversial features (Jubilee, Sebastiane, Caravaggio and Edward II), his work with The Smiths and The Pet Shop Boys and his public battle with AIDS.

As a gay man living in Thatcher’s Britain, Jarman used his art to build bridges and shout defiantly at the world. Swinton and Julien’s film is a celebration of an extraordinary life in art.

2008 marks the 20th Anniversary of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Experience the unexpected at Vancouver’s second largest film festival, bringing film lovers and filmmakers together to celebrate the best of independent queer cinema. Flirt, chat and get a little wild at the hottest parties, galas and cinematic spectacles this side of the Pacific.