Mendes’ Away We Go to open Edinburgh
Academy award winning British director Sam Mendes’ Away We Go [+see also:
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The film is based on the first original screenplay by authors Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and Vendela Vida (And Now You Can Go). It stars John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels and Maggie Gyllenhaal and features a score by Scottish composer Alexi Murdoch. The film follows a couple as they travel across America to find the perfect place to raise a family.
Away We Go is a Focus Features presentation in association with Big Beach of an Edward Saxon/Big Beach production in association with Neal Street Productions and will go on general release in the UK on September 18, distributed by E1 Entertainment.
EIFF Artistic Director Hannah McGill said “We’re absolutely delighted to open the Festival with a wonderful film that marks a distinct change of pace for one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary directors, Sam Mendes. Away We Go is the perfect Opening Night for Edinburgh: funny, positive and smart, and a film I’m incredibly proud to present to our audiences.”
Mendes said, “I’m absolutely thrilled that Away We Go will have its international debut at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and especially pleased to be the Opening Night. I was last in Edinburgh in 1987 at the Fringe, and most nights the cast outnumbered the audience. So I’m really looking forward to returning – hopefully to a full house!”
The film is eligible for the Standard Life Audience Award, which is chosen by audience votes from the Gala and British Gala Section of the EIFF.
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