10TH BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL

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RACING DREAMS
UK & IRELAND PREMIERE

QFT
Wednesday 21 April 7.15pm
£6.50/£6.00

Director: Marshall Curry / USA / 2009 / 93mins / Cert PG / Print source: Inferno Entertainment


	A hugely enjoyable film that beats most fiction cinema to its knees, Racing Dreams is the ‘Stand By Me’ of documentary films. Oscar-nominated director Marshall Curry excels with a fast paced and raw film about early teen racers facing their last year of little league and a foreboding decision about their future careers, aching for NASCAR glory. Following Annabeth, Josh and Brandon as they compete for the World Karting Association’s national championship, Racing Dreams is also about their innate desire to race and a gloriously uplifting rites of passage story. They are all tested by a last summer of first romances and troubled family backgrounds. These races are fast, dangerous and brilliantly captured on film, the competition has you on the edge of your seat and their successes and failures are powerful to watch. Already destined for a fictional remake by Spielberg’s Dreamworks, Racing Dreams is destined to be the thrilling sleeper hit of the festival. ‘The best film of the year so far… an instant classic’ LA Times.