Sinopsis
Fiction. In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
Philippa Lowthorpe is an award-winning filmmaker who began her career directing documentaries before moving into film and television fiction. Her television career includes the successful BBC drama, Call the Midwife! Lowthorpe was the lead director of the first debut dramatic series of the last decade whose first episode garnered the highest audience of the season. Lowthorpe also directed the series’ 2013 Christmas special, which earned her her first BAFTA as a director. In 2018 Lowthorpe directed the acclaimed miniseries Three Girls for the BBC, which won five BAFTA awards, including Best miniseries and Best director. Lowthorpe remains the only director to have won this award. He has also directed two episodes of the second season of The Crown, as well as Jamaica Inn, Cider with Rosie, The Other Boleyn Girl, Swallows and Amazons, and the upcoming Plan B Entertainment and HBO series, The Third Day.
November 13th 2020. 8pm
Palacio de la Prensa
Section: Closing ceremony
Year of Production: 2020
Running Time: 106’
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Cast: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Manville, Rhys Ifans and Greg Kinnear
Production: Suzanne Mackie and Sarah Jane Wheale
Production Companies: Left Bank Pictures, Pathé, BBC Films and the British Film Institute
International Sales: Pathé International
