Set to receive its World Premiere in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance Film Festival on 20.01.2018, Yardie, with Production Design by Damien Creagh.
This is Idris Elba’s directorial feature debut and was shot on location in Jamaica & London – it’s based on the novel of the same name written by Victor Headley.
Sundance: On a hot night in Kingston, Jamaica, 1973, Jerry Dread stops the music at an outdoor party to encourage a truce between warring gangs. His little brother Denis looks on from the crowd as an assassin’s bullet rings out, taking Jerry’s life. A decade later, Denis is the right-hand man to gang boss Fox, who sends him on a loyalty-testing mission to London. But when the mission goes wrong, Denis hides out with an old flame and decides to find his brother’s killer.
Based on the cult novel by Victor Headley, Idris Elba’s standout directorial debut fuses the hard-boiled gangster genre with a dramatic coming-of-age period piece, bringing to life characters who struggle to find forgiveness while making their own paths between two worlds. Elba expertly re-creates the atmosphere of the times with an astute eye for detail and an evocative soundtrack that captures the tumultuous spirit of Kingston and London in the ’80s—where identity, culture, and even the cities themselves were in flux.
Screening Times @ Sundance Film Festival 2018
Sat. 1/20, 9:30 p.m., Ray, PC
Sun. 1/21, noon, PC Library, PC
Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC
Wed. 1/24, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC
Thu. 1/25, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort, Provo
Fri. 1/26, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC
World Premiere 20 January 2018 at 21:30 – Sundance 2018 SCHEDULE
