Julian Clary set to Host Live Event and Q&A ‘Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?’ & The London Gay Men’s Chorus This April

Peccadillo Pictures is delighted to announce that comedian and author Julian Clary is confirmed to host the special live event screening of upcoming documentary feature Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? on Sunday 2 April, 4pm at the Barbican Centre, London.

The live cinema event, which includes a performance from the London Gay Men’s Chorus and a Q&A with director Barak Heymann and the film’s protagonists, will also be streamed live via satellite to 50+ participating cinemas across the UK. This event is made possible with support from the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery to bring world-class cinema to audiences across the UK. Cities confirmed for the live satellite broadcast so far include London, Aberdeen, Brighton, Bristol, Canterbury, Cardiff, Derby, Dundee, Exeter, Inverness, Norwich, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stirling and York, and more will be announced in the coming weeks.

Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? is the latest offering from acclaimed Israeli filmmaking duo Tomer and Barak Heymann and is a tender insight into the life of a gay Jewish man and his reconciliation with the family who once rejected him.

At the age of 21, Saar Maoz is kicked out of his Kibbutz for not being ‘religious’.

Cutting all ties with his family, Saar flees to London and embraces the freedoms of London life in the 90s. Then one day the highs of his new found freedom come crashing down around him. With no family of his own, Saar seeks solace in the arms of the London Gay Men’s Chorus. Suddenly life has a new meaning.

After 17 years Saar reaches out to his conservative Israeli family in an attempt to reconcile. Now after years of separation his parents are coming to visit…

Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? celebrates the triumph of love over hate, of understanding over ignorance and the melding of cultures that traditionally view each other as extreme. This isn’t Saar Moaz’s singular journey, it is a monumental trek undertaken by his entire family and a poignant life story that echoes far and wide.

Tickets for the Barbican live event are available to purchase online or by phone through the Box Office. For a full list of participating venues streaming the film and to buy tickets please go to here.

Peccadillo Pictures
Peccadillo Pictures is one of the UK's most recognised independent distributors of Art House, LGBT and World Cinema titles with an impressive collection of films from across the globe that prides itself on nurturing new and upcoming talent alongside established directors. Peccadillo also distributes short films, documentaries and re-releases of classic titles. Recent releases include Andrew Steggall’s Departure, Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man and the Oscar Nominated global hit Embrace of the Serpent which has become Peccadillo’s highest grossing film at the Box Office to date.

As well as bringing an exciting mix of films to cinemas across the UK and Ireland, Peccadillo provides film-viewing on a variety of platforms from online, VoD, Blu-ray and DVD and is one of a handful of UK companies with its own iTunes page. With 101 million views on YouTube, a strong and dedicated Twitter following, an engaged Facebook community and an established successful e-mail newsletter, our audience continues to grow in the UK and beyond.

About the London Gay Men’s Chorus
In 1991, nine friends came together to sing a few Christmas carols at Angel Underground Station hoping to raise a few pounds for the Terrence Higgins Trust. London was in the midst of the AIDS crisis and the men, who belonged to a social group called London Friend sang together to find a place of support, of friendship and of brotherhood. Little did they know what they had kick-started.

Fast-forward 25 years later, and this once small band of singers now calls itself the London Gay Men's Chorus. Boasting over 200 members, the LGMC is the largest gay choir in Europe and regularly plays to sell-out crowds at Southbank Centre, Cadogan Hall and the Roundhouse. Over the years, the chorus has been lucky enough to have worked with a diverse range of artists including pop stars Mark Ronson and Elton John, soprano Lesley Garrett, country legend Dolly Parton, musical theatre star Hannah Waddingham, actor Simon Callow and comedienne Sandi Toksvig. The LGMC has also appeared on Children in Need, Comic Relief, The One Show, The Graham Norton Show and Top of the Pops.

About the Barbican
A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual arts. Its creative learning programme further underpins everything it does. Over 1.1 million people attend events annually, hundreds of artists and performers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. The architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbican Theatre, The Pit, Cinemas One, Two and Three, Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery The Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Terrace, a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants. The City of London Corporation is the founder and principal funder of the Barbican Centre.

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About the BFI
With over £50 million of Lottery funding to invest each year, the BFI is the UK's largest public investor in film, and the BFI Film Fund supports first-class British filmmaking from talent and project development, through production, to audience development across exhibition, distribution and international sales.

Films supported by the BFI include last year’s Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner and BAFTA-nominated I, Daniel Blake directed by Ken Loach and the Jury Prize award-winning and BAFTA-nominated American Honey by filmmaker Andrea Arnold; Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom and Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, the opening and closing galas respectively at last year’s BFI London Film Festival; James Spinney and Peter Middleton’s BAFTA-nominated Notes on Blindness; Roger Mainwood’s Ethel & Ernest; Colm McCarthy’s The Girl With All The Gifts; Jim Hosking’s The Greasy Strangler; John Michael McDonagh’s War on Everyone; Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise starring Tom Hiddleston; Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette; John Crowley’s BAFTA-winning and Oscar® nominated Brooklyn; Sean McAllister's A Syrian Love Story, BAFTA-nominated and Grand Jury prize winner at Sheffield Doc/Fest; Yorgos Lanthimos’ BAFTA-nominated and 2015 Cannes Competition selection The Lobster; and Andrew Haigh’s Berlin award winning and BAFTA and Oscar® nominated 45 Years.

Highly anticipated films backed by the BFI include Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country winner of the Directing Award on its World Premiere at Sundance 2017 and now has its European Premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival; William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth; Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete; Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not A Witch; Clio Barnard’s Dark River; Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here; Andy Serkis’ Breathe; Sophie Fiennes’ Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life; Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House; Nick Park’s Early Man; Paddy Considine’s Journeyman; Lucy Cohen’s Fly Away; Michael Pearce’s Beast; Peter Mackie Burns’ Daphne; Hope Dickson Leach’s The Levelling; Thomas Clay’s Fanny Lye Delivr’d; Haifaa Al Mansour’s A Storm in the Stars; Mercedes Grower’s Brakes; and Pete Travis’ City of Tiny Lights.

The BFI is the lead organisation for film in the UK with the ambition to create a flourishing film environment in which innovation, opportunity and creativity can thrive by:

• Connecting audiences to the widest choice of British and World cinema
• Preserving and restoring the most significant film collection in the world for today and future generations
• Championing emerging and world class film makers in the UK - investing in creative, distinctive and entertaining work
• Promoting British film and talent to the world
• Growing the next generation of film makers and audiences

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