Party Film Sales Shares New Clip of Sundance Documentary ‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ Featuring Glasgow Activists Standing Up Against Immigration Raids
Documentary ‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ Acquired for Worldwide Distribution Ahead of Sundance Premiere
The Party Film Sales has secured worldwide sales rights for the documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street, which addresses a community’s response to an immigration raid. The film is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra, a Scotland-based Belgian Chilean filmmaker, the documentary explores a notable event from 2021 in Glasgow’s diverse community. This incident involved local residents obstructing a police van that was detaining two men for deportation.
Initially unnoticed by immigration officials during the early morning raid, the alert was raised by the neighborhood. What began as a small gathering of ten quickly escalated into a rally of nearly 2,500 activists working to prevent the arrests.
Bustos Sierra, who has roots in activism from his childhood experiences in Chile, presents the event through a combination of crowd-sourced footage and interviews with participants. The Party Film Sales has released an early clip to showcase the film.
“We are extremely proud to be part of the upcoming journey of Everybody to Kenmure Street. It is a remarkably crafted film—hopeful, moving, intelligent, and profoundly political—that resists fatalism and affirms the power of collective action,” stated Samuel Blanc and Estelle de Araujo, Co-Heads of Sales at The Party Film Sales in Paris. They emphasized the documentary’s relevance, asserting it will inspire and empower audiences globally.
Produced by Ciara Barry at the Glasgow-based production company barry crerar in association with Bustos Sierra’s Debasers Filums, the documentary includes executive producers Emma Thompson, Mark Thomas, Kevin McGrath, and Susan Simnett.
Everybody to Kenmure Street will have its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance and will also be featured as the opening film at the Glasgow Film Festival at the end of February.
Additionally, Al Jazeera Media Network is co-producing the film, while Conic Films holds distribution rights for the UK and Ireland.
