HIS BIG WHITE SELF

US Premiere

Veteran filmmaker Nick Broomfield does not shy away from controversy. For over 20 years, with unrelenting vigor aggressive and proactive style of filmmaking, he has tackled subjects as difficult and notorious as Courtney Love, Tupac Shakur, Aileen Wuornos and Margaret Thatcher.

In Broomfield's oeuvre, a seminal film that exemplifies his signature style is THE LEADER, THE DRIVER AND THE DRIVER'S WIFE, made in 1991 during the final days of Apartheid. It was so provocative that it spawned repeated death threats against Broomfield from his subject, the controversial African Nazi Party (AWB) leader Eugene Terreblanche. In a bold move, Broomfield returns to South Africa fifteen years later to make a follow up. The result is HIS BIG WHITE SELF.

Deciding to risk their safety, Broomfield and his crew set up a mock TV interview with Terreblanche, donning disguises to go undercover into the former leader's home. Although primed for the violence, hatred and extremism he experienced during their last meeting, nothing could prepare him-or the audience-for the man Terreblance has become.

Broomfield has said, "I never thought in my worst nightmares that fourteen years later I'd feel compelled to track down His Big White Self." But of course, he did, and the result is extraordinary.

-Sky Sitney

DIRECTOR BIO
Nick Broomfield studied film at the National Film School in England. He made his first film, WHO CARES, with a wind-up Bolex camera. He went on to collaborate with Joan Churchill on several films: JUVENILE LIAISON, TATTOOED TEARS, SOLDIER GIRLS, LILY TOMLIN and more recently AILEEN LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. The making of DRIVING ME CRAZY in 1988 led Nick to a more investigative and experimental type of filmmaking, which are trademarks of his later films, THE LEADER, THE DRIVER AND THE DRIVER'S WIFE; AILEEN WUORNOS: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER; KURT AND COURTNEY and BIGGIE AND TUPAC.

Print Source:
Lafayette Film
Nick Broomfield
c/o Lafayette Film Ltd
info@nickbroomfield.com

PRECEDED BY...BEYOND FREEDOM: THE SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNEY
Jacquie Trowell
SOUTH AFRICA, 2005, 13 MINUTES

The voices of the new South Africa are interwoven with contemporary music and song in this inventive mixed-media documentary featuring interviews about the ongoing efforts to achieve social justice.

Print Source:
Big World Cinema
27 Caledon Street
Cape Town, 8001
South Africa
+27.21.465.4686
info@bigworld.co.za

6/15 at 9:30 PM

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