Cine-Excess announce special guest Pam Grier and 2020 line-up

midlandsmovies • October 25, 2020
Cine-Excess release 2020 line-up

Cine-Excess is organised in association with Birmingham City University and the Black Sands Educational Project and is an online conference, streamed festival and screening season going ahead in 2020.

Cine-Excess 2020 represents the 14th annual international film festival and conference on global cult film cultures. It brings together international filmmakers, critics and scholars for a series of talks, interviews and UK premieres/exclusive screenings.

The guests of honour to Cine-Excess include screen legend Pam Grier (Jackie Brown, Coffy, Scream Blacula Scream). Pam will be discussing her career and linking it to key issues of diversity as raised by this year’s theme of ‘Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of Resistance’.

Pam Grier will be conducting a live Streamed Interview and Q&A and receiving her Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday 6th November between 6.30-8.30pm UK time.

Alongside Pam Grier, Cine-Excess are welcoming back the contemporary horror filmmaking duo Jennifer and Sylvia Soska (Rabid [2019] and American Mary). Having received their Cine-Excess award at the 2019 event, the inspirational Soska sisters return to the festival in their new role as BCU Fellows in International Cinema Practices.


Running throughout the daytime slots of Cine-Excess 2020 is the three-day conference Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of Resistance.


The Cine-Excess 2020 screening season also includes UK film premieres, exclusive screenings and two upcoming releases from the new Cine-Excess Digital Film Channel. See full line-up details and ticket link below:

TICKETS: https://www.cine-excess.co.uk/tickets.html


Wednesday 4th November

6.30pm-8.30pm Chop Chop (Plus Director Q&A)


9pm-11pm AV: The Hunt

Emre Akay, Turkey, 2020


Thursday 5th November

6.30pm-8.30pm Black Lake

(Plus Director Q&A) K. Pervais, UK, 2020, 97 mins - UK Premiere


9pm-11pm Leakage

(Plus Director Q&A) Susan Iravanian, Iran 2018


Friday 6th November

5pm-6pm Cinema Red: Natives and Horror

(Plus Director Q&A) Mike J. Marin, USA, 2019 - UK Premiere​


9pm-10.45pm Gags the Clown

(Plus Director Q&A) Adam Krause, USA, 2019 - UK Premiere​


11pm-1.15am Daytime Nightmare

(Plus Director Q&A Katrina Grey, UK, 2020 - UK Premiere​


Saturday 7th November

3pm-5pm Fornacis

(Plus Director Q&A) Aurelia Mengin, France, 2018


6pm-8pm The Horror Crowd

(Plus Filmmakers Q&A) Rubin Pla, USA, 2020


8.30pm -10.30pm Ten Minutes to Midnight

(Plus Filmmakers Q&A) Erik Bloomquist, USA, 2020


11pm-1am Victim of Love

(Plus Director Q&A) Jesper Isaksen, Denmark, 2020 - UK Premiere​


Sunday 8th November

5pm-7pm In the Quarry

(Bernardo Antonaccio, Rafael Antonaccio, Uruguay, 2019)


8.30pm-10.30pm Skin Walker

(Christian Neuman, Luxembourg, 2020) UK Premiere


11pm-1.15am Black Lizard Tales

(Plus Director Q&A) James Newton, UK, 2020 - UK Premiere

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