Second Film Screening of “PRIDE”

Due to the overwhelming response of the premiere in February, the British Consulate-General Shanghai and the Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General are organizing a second film screening of “PRIDE”, a film based on a true story about LGBT activists in UK.

Event Details

Date: Wednesday 18-March

Time: 7PM

Venue: The British Centre – 17F Garden Square , 968 West Beijing Road.

Refreshment will be served.

Free entry, space is limited, registration required. Please email your name and ID number to shanghaipride@gmail.com to reserve your seat.

Director: Matthew Warchus

Length: 120 minutes

Synopsis: The film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners’ strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. The National Union of Mineworkers was reluctant to accept the group’s support due to the union’s public relations’ worries about being openly associated with a gay group, so the activists instead decided to take their donations directly to Onllwyn, a small mining village in Wales, resulting in an alliance between the two communities. The alliance was unlike any seen before but was successful.

This event is also supported by ShanghaiPRIDE. Please bring your ID/Passport when you attend the event.