Una Lorenzen, Heather Millard and Thordur Jonsson’s YARN To Be Released In UK Cinemas Nationwide this October

Today, Compass Films in co-production with 2M Film Studio are thrilled to announce that their theatrical documentary film YARN, directed by Una Lorenzen (Iceland) and Co-Directed and Produced by Heather Millard (UK) and Thordur Jonsson (Iceland) will be released in UK cinemas from 7th October 2016 ahead of UK Wool Week.

Officially selected for SXSW and Goteborg Film Festival 2016, YARN is a poetic documentary which follows four international artists who are redefining the tradition of knit and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world. Reinventing our relationship with this colourful tradition, YARN weaves together wool graffiti artists, circus performers, and structural designers into a visually-striking look at the women who are making a creative stance while building one of modern art's hottest trends.

The film introduces us to the unique stories of characters from four different countries that use yarn in very different ways. Their view of the world is reflected through their passion with yarn as they travel around the world spreading their work. The characters all have one thing in common - they all work by hand and their work is in one way or another interacting with the environment; as part of architecture, the streets, nature and people.

The film has been met in the US and Canada with critical acclaim, with the New York Times referring to it as “You have almost certainly never seen a better documentary on yarn than ‘YARN’… thread and string should be jealous” and The Hollywood Reporter calling it “A fanciful art doc for the craft-y among us.”

Co-Director and Producer Heather Millard said “We are thrilled to release YARN in over 40 cinemas across the UK just ahead of Wool Week. We began production for YARN back in 2013 and since then we’ve filmed across 11 different countries (including the UK), worked with a crew from the UK, Iceland, Canada, Poland and Sweden and are now in the midst of our US theatrical release with further releases planned for Sweden, Canada, Australia, Greenland, Slovakia, Netherlands and Greece.”

For more information on YARN, to watch a trailer and to find out where it’s showing in cinemas please visit the Official Website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

September 23-29 – Mareel Shetlands – Lerwick, U.K. – Coming Soon!
September 29 – October 2nd – Eden Court Theatre – Inverness, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 8, 12 – Aldeburgh Cinema – Aldeburgh, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 9 – Picturehouse Cinemas – Across the U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 9 – Showcase Cinemas – Across the U.K. – Tickets and Information
October 9 – Farnham Maltings – Surrey, U.K. – Tickets and Information
October 9th – Dundee Contemporary Arts – Dundee, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 9th – The Electric – Birmingham, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 9 – Saffron Screen – Saffron Walden, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 9, 11 – The Plough Arts Center – Devon, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 9, 12 – Derby QUAD – Derby, U.K. – Tickets and Information
October 10 – Regal Melton – Melton, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 11 – Ritz Belper – Belper, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 11 – Savoy Cinema Heaton – Stockport, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 12 – Corby Cube – Corby, U.K. – Coming Soon!
October 13 – South Hill Park Arts Centre – Bracknell, U.K. – Tickets and Information
October 15 – Courtyard – Hereford, U.K. – Tickets and Information

CREDITS

DIRECTOR
Una Lorenzen

CO-DIRECTED by
Thordur Jonsson
Heather Millard

WRITTEN by
Krishan Arora

NARRATION WRITTEN & PERFORMED by
Barbara Kingsolver

ORIGNAL WORK
‘Where it Begins’ by Barbara Kingsolver

ANIMATION
Una Lorenzen

EDITING
Þórunn Hafstað

ORIGINAL SCORE
Örn Eldjarn

PRODUCED by
Heather Millard
Þórður Jónsson

CO-PRODUCED by
Marcin Marczyk - 2M Film Studio Poland

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Krishan Arora

BIOGRAPHIES

UNA LORENZEN (Director)
Una Lorenzen is an Icelandic filmmaker living in Montreal, Canada. She received her MFA in experimental animation at California Institute of the Arts. Her films have traveled widely to festivals and museums including SXSW, New York City’s New Museum (Nordic Outbreak 2013), Nordisk Panorama, Kro Art Gallery Vienna, Papaya Gyro Nights Hong Kong, Unsound music festival Poland and Artforum online.

HEATHER MILLARD (Co-Director/Producer)
Heather is an experienced producer working in both documentary films and feature-films. Her productions have included award-winning feature-film ‘Of Good Report’ (TIFF 2013, BFI London 2013) and documentary feature-films: ‘YARN’ (SXSW 2016), ‘I Want to be Weird’ (Nordisk Panoram 2015), ‘Trend Beacons’ (CPH:DOX 2014), ‘ASH’ (Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2013), ‘Future of Hope’ (IDFA 2010). Heather has been producing feature length documentary films, hybrid films and feature films since 2009 when she re-located to Iceland from the UK. Heather is currently in development with 2 feature films and a children’s animated series and in production with 3 feature documentaries.

THORDUR JONSSON (Co-Director/Producer)
Thordur is an Icelandic film director/producer working in documentaries, features and servicing. Thordur has co-produced the award winning feature film ‘Of Good Report’ (TIFF, BFI London 2013), co-directed and produced ‘YARN’ (SXSW 2016) and recently completed the hybrid feature ‘The Wall’ (Winner – Best Human Rights Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh 2016) and documentary film ‘Permaculture Preacher’. Thordur regularly services international film and television productions in Iceland, including the recent productions: BBC's ‘Naomi’s Nightmares of Nature’, BBC’s ‘The Big Fish’ and projects for Red Bull TV and Maori Television in New Zealand.