This is the information we published on the Joy Division documentary when it was still a forthcoming release ...
Forthcoming Joy Division release
Joy Division documentary - in UK cinemas 2 May 2008.
Brown owl films Premiere: Toronto film festival Septermber 7th 2007 Release Dates: (some of these are links so click em) Already available on DVD in Norway! 2nd May UK Cinema release 17th May Japanese cinema release 17th June - Canadian cinema release date For previews and special screenings check out our messageboard Director: Grant Gee Writer: Jon Savage Who's involved: The remaining original band members, Kevin Cummins, Peter Saville, Deborah Curtis, Paul Morley etc The documentary has distribution for DVD release as well as selected cinema release and then TV At 1 Feb 2008 the DVD appears to have been released in Norway. Online retailer dvdhuset are distributing the DVD which seems to have been released in Norway long in advance of anywhere else. We are currently waiting for an update from BO Films about DVD release dates and will publish info as we get it. At January 2008 the following press information was released: Ambulate Gira de Documentales [Mexico] February 1st – April 24th !f Istanbul [Turkey] February 14th – March 3rd Film Comments Selects at Lincoln Center [New York, NY] For tickets: February 16th & February 27th ZagrebDox [Zagreb, Croatia] February 25th – March 2nd True|False Film Fest [Columbia, MO] February 28th – March 2nd SXSW [Austin, TX] March 7th – March 15th Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival [Slovenia] March 26th – April 2nd Buenos Aires Film Festival [Argentina] April 8th – April 20th Independent Film Festival of Boston [Boston, MA] April 23rd – April 29th Jeonju International Film Festival May 1st – May 9th At August 2007 the following two press releases were issued: THE WORLD PREMIERE OF 'JOY DIVISION’ AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 7 SEPTEMBER 2007 Friday, September 7th @ 2:45 pm ­ Scotiabank 3 [1st Public Screening] Sunday, September 9th @ 5:30 pm ­ Cumberland 3 [2nd Public Screening] Saturday, September 15th @ 8:15 pm ­ Cumberland 3 [3rd Public Screening] The world premiere of JOY DIVISION will take place at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2007. The feature length documentary, a US/UK co production, produced by Hudson Productions Ltd partners Tom Astor and Tom Atencio in association with Brown Owl Films’ Jacqui Edenbrow, is directed by Grammy nominated Grant Gee (Radiohead's Meeting People Is Easy, Director of Photography & Editor Scott Walker: 30 Century Man) and co-written by acclaimed journalist/writer Jon Savage (England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond). In 1976 four young men from ruined, post-industrial Manchester went to see the Sex Pistols. They formed a band, Joy Division. Three years later the lead singer, Ian Curtis committed suicide just as they were on the brink of worldwide success. Together Gee and Savage investigate why Joy Division's collective musical genius and singular vision enjoys a larger audience and influence thirty years on. Featuring the unprecedented participation of the surviving band members of Joy Division, now known as New Order, the film chronicles a time of great social and political change in England of the mid-70's and tells the untold story of these four men who transcended economic and cultural barriers to produce an enduring and profound legacy, one that resonates fiercely in today's heavily careerist music industry and over mediated pop culture. The band's remarkable story is depicted through atmospheric never-before-seen live performance footage, photographs both iconic and personal, period films and newly unearthed audio tapes; taking us through the band’s early years as individuals finding their voices and then later as a band, building their ideas and ideals. The documentary situates the band not just in the musical context of punk and post-punk but in the culturally starved, claustrophobic landscape of post-industrial Manchester that surrounded them and suffuses every note of their music. This unparalleled visual account of a time and place is coupled with heartfelt and animated, present tense accounts from the surviving members of the band Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, plus other key characters in the story, including friend and similarly isolated musician Genesis P. Orridge, legendary Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, iconic graphic artist Peter Saville, photographer/ filmmaker Anton Corbijn, Annik Honoré and others. JOY DIVISION is a Hudson Productions Ltd Production in association with Brown Owl Films. ------------------------------------------------------------------ JOY DIVISION has reached the end of production. The feature length documentary, a US/UK co production, produced by Hudson Productions Ltd partners Tom Astor and Tom Atencio in association with Brown Owl Films' Jacqui Edenbrow, is directed by Grammy nominated Grant Gee (Radiohead's Meeting People Is Easy, Director of Photography & Editor Scott Walker: 30 Century Man) and co-written by acclaimed journalist/writer Jon Savage (England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond). In 1976 four young men from ruined, post-industrial Manchester went to see the Sex Pistols. They formed a band, Joy Division. Three years later the lead singer, Ian Curtis committed suicide just as they were on the brink of worldwide success. Together Gee and Savage investigate why Joy Division's collective musical genius and singular vision enjoys a larger audience and influence thirty years on. Featuring the unprecedented participation of the surviving band members of Joy Division, now known as New Order, the film chronicles a time of great social and political change in England of the mid-70's and tells the untold story of these four men who transcended economic and cultural barriers to produce an enduring and profound legacy, one that resonates fiercely in today's heavily careerist music industry and over mediated pop culture. The band's remarkable story is depicted through atmospheric never-before-seen live performance footage, photographs both iconic and personal, period films and newly unearthed audio tapes; taking us through the band's early years as individuals finding their voices and then later as a band, building their ideas and ideals. The documentary situates the band not just in the musical context of punk and post-punk but in the culturally starved, claustrophobic landscape of post-industrial Manchester that surrounded them and suffuses every note of their music. This unparalleled visual account of a time and place is coupled with heartfelt and animated, present tense accounts from the surviving members of the band Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, plus other key characters in the story, including friend and similarly isolated musician Genesis P. Orridge, legendary Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, iconic graphic artist Peter Saville, photographer/ filmmaker Anton Corbijn, Annik Honoré and others. JOY DIVISION is a Hudson Productions Ltd Production in association with Brown Owl Films.		Norway DVD Cover