Thame’s Superhero – The End?

TICKETS are now available for a special summer screening featuring the World Premier of locally-made short film, ‘The CuBOYd’, and heart-warming musical ‘Wild Rose’.

The CuBOYd began as a YouTube series in 2011, created by Thame filmmakers Jack Franks, Joe Phippen and Joe Ounsworth. The series followed the lives of boredom-fighting, cardboard-clad superhero (The Cuboyd) and his two cameramen (the two Joes), accumulating over one million views before the filmmakers began a hiatus to focus on university and work.

Returning to their hometown, and struggling to rediscover their place in a less forgiving online media landscape, the filmmakers reunited to develop the concept into a short film. Bringing in cinematographer Olly Ross and boom operator Sam Roelandts, the team developed a more emotional story than expected which serves as a fitting end to a project that always celebrated the connection between friendship, youth and home.

This will be followed by a short Q&A with director, Jack, and then the recently-released main feature ‘Wild Rose’, starring Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, and Sophie Okonedo, which follows the tale of a young Scottish country singer who dreams of making it big in Nashville after being released from prison. Saturday, July 20, 8pm. Tickets from thamecinema.org.uk or on the door.