Academy Award Winning ‘Undefeated’ Screens Nationwide On August 7th

The wonderful Dogwoof are proud to present UNDEFEATED, a compelling insight that’s set against the backdrop of an American high school football season and this isn’t any old doc, it won the Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature and is an intimate chronicle of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field.

Founded in 1899, Manassas High School in North Memphis has never seen its football team, the Tigers, win a playoff game. In recent decades, the last-place Tigers had gone so far as to sell its regular season games to rival schools looking to chalk up an easy win. That began to change in 2004, when Bill Courtney, former high school football coach turned businessman, volunteered to lend a hand…

We’ve got a review coming up later this week but first, have a look at the trailer and then scroll down for the entire listings of the screenings across the UK and Ireland plus…a pretty awesome competition for any American Football team in the UK attending:

UNDEFEATED is screening across the UK and Ireland at nearly 40 cinemas for a one-off showing on 7th August. Here are all the cinemas screening on the 7th August – grab your tickets today before they sell out!

London – Empire West End

London – Greenwich Picturehouse

London – Hackney Picturehouse

London – Odeon Covent Garden

London – Ritzy Cinema

London – Stratford Picture House

London – Vue Finchley Road

London – Vue Islington

London – Vue Westfield

London – Vue Westfield Stratford City

Aberdeen – Belmont Picturehouse

Birmingham – Vue Birmingham

Bolton – Vue Bolton

Bristol – Vue Bristol Cribbs Causeway

Bury-St-Edmunds – Abbeygate Picturehouse

Cambridge – Cambridge Arts Picturehouse

Cardiff – Vue Cardiff

Croydon – Vue Croydon Grants

Doncaster – Vue Doncaster

Dublin – Vue Dublin

Edinburgh – Cameo Cinema

Edinburgh – Vue Edinburgh Omni Centre

Ellesmere Port – Vue Cheshire Oaks

Exeter – Exeter Picturehouse

Hamilton – Vue Hamilton

Harrow – Vue Harrow

Leeds – Vue Leeds The Light

Leicester – Vue Leicester

Liverpool – Picturehouse At Fact

Norwich – Cinema City

Plymouth – Vue Plymouth

Portsmouth – Vue Portsmouth

Reading – Vue Reading

Romford – Vue Romford

Sheffield – Vue Sheffield

Stratford-upon-avon – Stratford-upon-avon Picture House

Thanet – Vue Thanet

York – City Screen Picturehouse

P.S. There is 35 NFL footballs to giveaway to the American Football team with the best photo of themselves kitted up outside their local cinema screening of UNDEFEATED – see the website for details

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