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WARP X ANNOUNCES THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES DOCUMENTARY FEATURING BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, PORTISHEAD, SONIC YOUTH, GRINDERMAN & MORE AT SXSW FESTIVAL ON MARCH 14TH & A MULTI PLATFORM RELEASE THIS SUMMER THROUGH WARP FILMS

WARP X ANNOUNCES THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES DOCUMENTARY FEATURING BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, PORTISHEAD, SONIC YOUTH, GRINDERMAN & MORE AT SXSW FESTIVAL ON MARCH 14TH & A MULTI PLATFORM RELEASE THIS SUMMER THROUGH WARP FILMS

Warp X is pleased to announce the world premiere of All Tomorrow’s Parties at the SXSW Festival screening on 14th, 19th and 21st March. All Tomorrow’s Parties is a kaleidoscopic journey into the parallel musical universe of the cult music festival of the same name.

SXSW is the leading festival hotspot for exploring the latest filmmaking trends and new technology with a special focus on emerging talents. As such it is the ideal platform to launch All Tomorrow’s Parties.

All Tomorrow’s Parties is a DIY concert film featuring performances from an eclectic mix of some of the most influential artists including: Battles, Sonic Youth, Belle And Sebastian, Patti Smith, Grinderman, Iggy and the Stooges, Portishead, Mogwai, Slint, Grizzly Bear, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gossip, Daniel Johnston and The Boredoms.

The film is a semi-found bricolage made from Super8, camcorder and mobile phone footage contributed by over two hundred filmmakers, fans and musicians over the festival’s recent history, with key contributions from Jonathan Caouette (Tarnation) and Vincent Moon (The Take Away Shows, Arcade Fire).

All Tomorrow’s Parties is a fiercely independent festival that many music lovers regard as one of the most important music events in the world. In an intimate and communal atmosphere, free of corporate sponsorship, it serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living, with musicians and fans living side by side. At each festival a band or artist is chosen to gather up their favourite artists who perform over a weekend in an out-of-season holiday camp by the sea. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore described the festival as the ‘ultimate mix tape’.

All Tomorrow’s Parties will have a UK multi- platform release this summer (dates tbc) with one night only theatrical events, a DVD release and digital download available through Warp Films. Warp X is a UK Film Council, Film4, EM Media, Screen Yorkshire, Optimum initiative.

Visit the film at: www.ourtrueintentisallforyourdelight.com

SXSW Screenings (we do have guest list for covering media):

Saturday, March 14th – 5:15 PM – Alamo Lamar 2

Thursday, March 19th – 5:00 PM – Paramount

Saturday, March 21st – 8:00 PM – Alamo Ritz 1

Notes for Editors:

About Warp X

Pioneering digital film studio Warp X is based in Sheffield, with a satellite office in London. Warp X shares the reputation of its sister companies Warp Records and Warp Films for combining creative originality with commercial success. After premiering to critical acclaim at Sundance Film Festival in 2008, Warp X’s first two films A Complete History of My Sexual Failures and Donkey Punch were released in the UK in Summer 2008. Their third film, Hush, a thriller from writer/director Mark Tonderai will be released in the UK on 13 March. Warp X’s final three films of their first slate All Tomorrow’s Parties (a music documentary), Bunny and the Bull (a comedy from The Mighty Boosh director, Paul King) and She, A Chinese (a debut fiction feature from Chinese writer/director Xiaolu Guo) are currently in post production. 2009 sees the start of the second Warp X slate and a hotbed of exciting new projects in development. www.warpx.co.uk

About UK Film Council

The UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund supports emerging talent and established filmmakers working outside the mainstream focusing on the most innovative writing and the most gifted directors. The fund has a strong commitment to supporting work from the nations and regions, from black, Asian and other minority ethnic filmmakers and encourages the use of digital technology in the production, distribution and exhibition of films. The New Cinema Fund has £15 million of Lottery money to invest over three years and funds 8 to 10 feature films each year.

The fund supports filmmakers at every stage of their career from directors with their first and second features such as Dominic Murphy’s White Lightnin’ (screened at the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals 2009), Armando Iannucci’s In the Loop (at Sundance 2009), Alexis dos Santos’s Unmade Beds (also at Berlin and Sundance 2009), Noel Clarke’s Adulthood and the Cannes award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold with her forthcoming film Fish Tank.

The fund also continues to fund more established filmmakers to produce British films with distinctive visions such as James Marsh’s Oscar®-winning Man on Wire, Sally Potter’s Rage (Berlin Competition 2009), Jane Campion’s Bright Star, Ken Loach’s The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Cannes, Palme d’Or), Shane Meadows’s This is England (BAFTA, Best British Film) and Kevin Macdonald with Touching the Void (BAFTA, Best British Film), alongside emerging filmmakers such as Andrea Arnold with Red Road (Cannes, Jury Prize), Paul Andrew Williams with London to Brighton (Edinburgh International Film Festival, Best New Director) and Duane Hopkins with Better Things (Cannes, Critics’ Week).

Further Information visit: www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk

About Film4

Film4, headed by Tessa Ross, is Channel 4 Television’s feature film division. The company develops and co-finances film productions and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the UK, whether new or established.

Film4’s most recent releases include Danny Boyle’s, Slumdog Millionaire most recently winner of 8 Academy Awards, Steve McQueen’s Hunger, winner of, amongst other awards, the Cannes Camera D’Or, Bob Weide’s How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, Martin McDonagh’s Oscar nominated, In Bruges, Mike Leigh’s Oscar nominated and Golden Globe Best Actress winner, Happy-Go-Lucky, Michael Winterbottom’s Genova, and Alexis Dos Santos’ Unmade Beds.

Up and coming Film4 projects include Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric, Paul King’s Bunny and the Bull, Tom Harper’s Scouting Book for Boys, Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, Chris Morris’ Four Lions, Sam Taylor Wood’s Nowhere Boy, Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, Kevin Macdonald’s Eagle of the Ninth and Mike Leigh’s 09 Project.

About Screen Yorkshire

Screen Yorkshire is the regional screen agency, responsible for inspiring, promoting and supporting a successful and sustainable film, television, games and interactive media sector in Yorkshire and Humber. Screen Yorkshire’s Production Fund, supported by Yorkshire Forward, invests in film and television production in the region. Recent credits include; The Damned United, Red Riding, Unforgiven, Wuthering Heights, Lost in Austen, Brideshead Revisited, The Cottage and the BAFTA award winning This Is England. Screen Yorkshire also has a Business Investment Fund, distributes Lottery and Grant in Aid awards on behalf of the UK Film Council and runs a series of broadcast training schemes in partnership with Skillset. For further information, visit: www.screenyorkshire.co.uk

About EM Media

EM Media is a dynamic Regional Screen Agency supporting the development of the film and media industries in the East Midlands region. It has three aims:

* Talent Development: to identify, grow and support the cultural, creative and economic ambitions of the region’s dynamic talent pool.
* Audiences and Markets: to develop the range of markets, audiences and opportunities for consumption of digital product and to encourage participation, understanding and engagement with all forms of media product.
* Business: Utilise key business functions and practices to better shape our business to be able to inform and support film and media businesses across the East Midlands’

EM Media has built a reputation for investing in innovative and distinctive projects, and has led the creation of a national profile for the East Midlands as a film-led region. EM Media is also one of the main partners in Warp X, the pioneering digital film studio established to revitalise low-budget British film-making.

Since 2002 EM Media has invested ERDF finance and/or Lottery in 31 feature films. Forthcoming releases include Karl Golden’s Pelican Blood, Samantha Morton’s directorial debut The Unloved, Brian Percival’s A Boy Called Dad, Duane Hopkins’ Better Things (Cannes Official Selection 2008), Kenny Glenaan’s Summer, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson, Martin Radich’s Crack Willow (Under The Radar – EIFF 2008), Steven Sheil’s Mum and Dad (Film4 FrightFest), Jeanie Finlay’s Goth Cruise and the films from the Warp X slate including Chris Waitt’s A Complete History of My Sexual Failures, Olly Blackburn’s Donkey Punch, Mark Tonderai’s Hush.

Previous film investments include the BAFTA and BIFA winning Control (Anton Corbijn) and the BAFTA award-winning This Is England (Shane Meadows) (Best British Film 2007).