Northwest Vision and Media, create the bigger picture
Free Tickets for Lawrence of Arabia Gala Screening
Northwest
Vision
and
Media
have
teamed
up
with
the
Liverpool
Arabic
Arts
Festival
and
The
British
Academy
of
Film
and
Television
Arts
to
celebrate
the
centenary
of
David
Lean’s
birth,
one of
the
academy’s
founding
members,
with
an
introduction
to the
screening
of his
seminal
award
winning
film.
Egyptian
actor
Omar
Sharif
gained
international
stardom
from
the
film,
which
he
considers
to be
one of
his
greatest.
The
Liverpool
Arabic
Arts
Festival
is
pleased
to
announce
that
eminent
author
and
media
critic
Dr
Jack
Shaheen
is to
return
to
Liverpool
to
speak
at
this
Gala
Screening
of
Lawrence
of
Arabia.
Director
David
Lean,
UK,
1962,
227mins
Starring
Peter
O’Toole,
Omar
Sharif,
Alec
Guinness
Winner
of 7
Academy
Awards
This
gala
screening
will
take
place
on
Tuesday
22nd
July
at
6:30pm,
at the
Liverpool
Philharmonic
Hall,
accompanied
by an
introduction
to the
film,
with a
guest
speaker
to be
announced.
This
screening
is
part
of
BAFTA
Goes
to the
Arab
World….on
tour
at
Liverpool
Arabic
Arts
Festival
(July
14-27)
which
features
an
impressive
selection
of
films
from
Syria,
Lebanon,
Egypt,
Iraq
and
Algeria.
The
Liverpool
Arabic
Arts
Festival
film
programme
at
FACT
and
Liverpool
Philharmonic
Hall
is
produced
in
partnership
with
the
Bluecoat,
FACT,
Picturehouse
at
FACT,
Liverpool
Philharmonic
Hall,
Mona
Deeley
of
Zenith
Foundation
and in
association
with
BAFTA.
Funding
has
been
provided
by
Northwest
Vision
and
Media.
For more information on the full festival please go to www.arabicartsfestival.co.uk
For more information on this tour and BAFTA’s UK-wide Learning & Events’ programme, please go to www.bafta.org
