The World Premiere

The big day was here at last - the first big screen showing of Foiled, at a top venue in London's West End!

We hired cinema 1 (185 seats) at the ICA for the morning, and over the past few weeks sent out invitations to everyone involved in the making, as well as friends, relatives and anyone else who might be interested.

We even went as far as inviting along some famous people to see if any would turn up - none did, but we received messages of best wishes from both Ewan McGregor and Tony Blair!  I think Ewan had the best excuse for not attending - he was currently involved in filming in Australia...

10:45am - Outside the ICA a crowd has gathered, enjoying the beautiful weather (which makes a change from the rain we've been having up until today). Suddenly a gleaming white stretch-limo pulls up and tourists immediately begin to rush over to see who is about to emerge... There is a huge round of applause as the stars begin to get out - Ian Lindsay and his girlfriend, Mike Varty and Sue Element, David Randell, Mark Stalker and his sister, Howell Parry, and Shaun Gostelow.  Suddenly everyone is calling for photographs.

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11:00am - The screening of Foiled begins...

The full premiere programme featured:-

• An exploding welcome message.
• A short reminder to people to turn off their mobile phones.
• The infamous Diet Coke advert (which some of the audience had already seen without realising it was one of ours!)
• An advert for the Janison Edge album, featuring Sue and Mike, and produced by Mike.
• A trailer for "Sunday Night Zombies", a forthcoming short from Foiled Productions.
• A trailer for "The Jedi Who Loved Me", another forthcoming short from Foiled Productions.
• Some facts about Foiled, to introduce it to those in the audience who might know nothing about it yet.
• The film itself.