Edinburgh Film Festival To Close With Paul Sng’s Doc On Irvine Welsh ‘Reality Is Not Enough’

This 12 months’s Edinburgh Film Festival (EIFF) will shut with Reality Is Not Enough, the most recent documentary characteristic from Paul Sng. 

The movie is an exploration of Trainspotting creator, Irvine Welsh.

The movie’s synopsis reads: Irvine Welsh is at a crossroads in his existence. After discovering large luck with a number of movie diversifications and 6 million books offered international, he has turn into conscious about his mortality. Now, along with his hedonistic days drawing to an in depth, the outspoken creator takes a wild adventure that explores the limits of awareness thru a hallucinogenic travel.

The document is constructed round intimate observational pictures, uncommon archive movie clips and readings from Welsh’s novels narrated by way of Liam Neeson (Batman Begins), Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), musician Nick Cave, Ruth Negga (Ad Astra) and Stephen Graham (Adolescence).

Reality Is Not Enough was once co-financed and produced by way of Edinburgh-based manufacturing corporate LS Films, with the enhance of Screen Scotland, and with Sarah Drummond serving as Executive Producer. Kaleidoscope will liberate the movie in the United Kingdom. 

“We were so impressed by this brilliantly immersive and fascinating documentary about iconic Scottish writer Irvine Welsh,” Paul Ridd, CEO and Festival Director of EIFF, stated in a observation. “Director Paul Sng’s refreshingly unusual and highly cinematic approach perfectly fits his subject, a man who has spent an entire career refusing to be pinned down, always surprising us with works of profound impact, rawness, and grace. We could not think of a better way to round off our Festival than with this terrific film.”

This 12 months’s EIFF runs from 14-20 August. 

Sng added: “I’m completely delighted that Reality is Not Enough has been chosen to close this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. When I read Trainspotting as a teenager in London back in the nineties, I had no idea I would one day live in the city where the book is set, let alone make a film with its author, Irvine Welsh. Having our World Premiere in our home city is a huge honour and we’re looking forward immensely to sharing the film with the EIFF audience.”