Mischief Night

Directed by: Penny Woolcock

United Kingdom / 2006 / 93 min mins / 35 mm / English

Copresented with Sub Swara

US PREMIERE, Introduced by Professor Sukhdev Sandhu

Everyone has Halloween but in Yorkshire, England they have Mischief Night – for one night only, madness and mayhem rule! Tina Crabtree lives on the White side of the park with her three unruly children, Kimberly, Tyler and Macauley. On the Asian side lives Immie Khan with his lively family. As the clock ticks down to Mischief Night, the Crabtree’s and the Khan’s are unaware that their worlds are about to collide. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate both families come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks – changing all their lives forever.

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Sukhdev Sandhu was educated at Oxford and has taught English literature at New York University. He is the author of London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined A City (HarperCollins, 2003) and Night Haunts (2006), a noctural journey through London. Originally commissioned by Artangel Interaction, Night Haunts was developed as a collaboration between Sukhdev Sandhu, website designer Ian Budden and sound artist and musician Scanner. Sandhu regularly participates in public and radio debates, and his writings appear in a range of publications including London Review of Books, Modern Painters, Smoke and Times Literary Supplement. He is chief film critic at the Daily Telegraph.