12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave
Tate Film presents a special preview screening of Steve McQueen’s long awaited third feature film, 12 Years a Slave.
Based on the 1853 memoirs of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), 12 Years a Slave, tells the incredible story of one man's fight for freedom. Solomon Northup is a free black man living in New York who is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender) as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life.
12 Years a Slave has been nominated for 7 Golden Globes and 9 London Critic Circle awards. It has been named best picture, and Ejiofor was named best actor by both the Boston Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics online, Steve McQueen was also named best director by Boston critics.
Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London. Lives and works in Amsterdam and London.)
Steve McQueen CBE trained at the Chelsea School of Art, London; Goldsmith College, London; and at the Tisch School of Arts, New York University. He was the recipient of an ICA Futures Award in (1996), a DAAD Artist in Residence Grant in Berlin (1999), the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London (1999), the Sydney Film Prize, Sydney Film Festival (2008), and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2011. He has participated in Documenta X (1997), XI (2002) and XII (2007) and in the Venice Biennale (2013, 2009 and 2003). He has had a number of international solo exhibitions, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2010), the Art Institute in Chicago (2009), the Fondazione Prada, Milan (2005), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2003) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (1998). A retrospective of his work was recently exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2012) and the Schaulager, Basel (2013).
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