I Am Eleven Opens In Theaters September 12th, 2014
‘I Am Eleven’, exploring lives of children around the world on the cusp of childhood and adolescence, to open in U.S. in theaters starting September 12 th, 2014.
Do you remember when you were 11? Australian filmmaker Genevieve Bailey travelled the world for six years talking with 11-year-olds to compose this insightful, funny and moving portrait of childhood. From an orphanage in India to a single-parent household in inner-city Melbourne, to bathing with elephants in Thailand, I AM ELEVEN explores the lives and thoughts of children from all around the world. It weaves together deeply personal and at times hilarious portraits of what it means to stand on the cusp between childhood and adolescence, that fleeting moment when childish naiveté has faded, yet teenaged self-consciousness has not yet taken hold. These young minds, still unguarded and remarkably honest, offer a powerful insight into the future of our world.
As straight up and personal as the ’7 Up’ series, and with the comedy and honesty of ‘Spellbound’, this documentary enables us to explore an age where these ‘not quite kids, not quite teenagers’ briefly linger, between the frank openness and sometimes naivety of childhood, and the sharp and surprisingly brave wisdom and knowing of adulthood. As much as it is a story about them, it is a story with them, of what it is like to be eleven today.
Official film website:
www.iameleven.com
I AM ELEVEN, directed by Genevieve Bailey, is being distributed in the United States by International Film Circuit.
I AM ELEVEN will open in theaters starting this September before expanding throughout the fall including:
New York on September 12
• AMC Empire 25
• Village East Cinema
Los Angeles on September 19
• Laemmle Royal (Los Angeles)
• Laemmle Playhouse 7 (Pasadena)
• AMC Burbank 8
• AMC Orange 30
• AMC Rolling Hills (Torrance)
Additional markets already confirmed include Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, DC and many more.
The acclaimed film, which played at festivals in the United States and around the world, recently completed its theatrical release in Australia where it played a record-breaking 26 weeks, one of the longest theatrical runs of any documentary in Australian film history.
“When I Was Eleven” Tumblr page for audience engagement:
www.wheniwaseleven.com
Facebook and Twitter pages:
www.facebook.com/
www.twitter.com/I_Am_Eleven
International Film Circuit’s recent releases include Peter Nicks’ acclaimed and award-winning documentary The Waiting Room, Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika and Joseph Dorman’s Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness. The distribution company’s release of Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg in 2009 grossed over $1 million. International Film Circuit’s Wendy Lidell has handled distribution for two Academy Award® nominated documentary films, Darwin’s Nightmare by Hubert Sauper and On The Ropes by Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein.
