Documentary on Kenmure Street protest wins Sundance Special Jury Award

Everyone to Kenmure Street, about a 13 May 2021 Pollokshields community response to a Home Office dawn raid, won the Special Jury Award in Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Everyone to Kenmure Street is a documentary about a Glasgow community's response to a Home Office immigration raid on 13 May 2021. Hundreds of residents in Pollokshields gathered and surrounded a detention van to prevent the removal of two neighbours. One man crawled under the vehicle during the standoff and the two men were later released. The film premiered earlier this month in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Key details: - The film documents events from 13 May 2021 in Pollokshields when neighbours prevented the detention of two men during a dawn raid. - It won the Special Jury Award in Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Competition, an award recognising films that document civil resistance. - The director is Chilean-Belgian filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra, who is based in Scotland and previously directed Nae Pasaran. - The film combines crowd-sourced footage, archive material and set-designed scenes with actors relaying verbatim testimonies from contributors who wished to remain anonymous. - Political figures and collaborators noted the case; First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the Home Office action at the time as "unacceptable," and Emma Thompson served as an executive producer and described the film as "beautiful and powerful." - The UK premiere will be the Opening Gala of the Glasgow Film Festival on 25 February, and it will be released in selected UK and Irish cinemas from 13 March. Summary: The film's Special Jury Award recognises work documenting civil resistance and community action. It will have its UK premiere as the Opening Gala of the Glasgow Film Festival on 25 February and will be released in selected UK and Irish cinemas from 13 March.