A controversial banned film about Jeremy Corbyn is going to be screened at the Glastonbury Festival and promises to revive memories of the ex-Labour leader’s powerful appearance there in 2017.
Producer Norman Thomas said: “When Jeremy Corbyn came to Glastonbury just after the 2017 election he received a huge reception — he’d come so close to pulling off the anti-establishment shock of the century. Our film is a reminder of that time and shows how it could come again — any time.”
Produced by Platform Films “Oh Jeremy Corbyn – The Big Lie” tells the story of the rise of the former Labour leader and “the conspiracy of forces” which, it claims, brought him down.
Mr Thomas said the film itself had come up against resistance from many quarters and it had been a “great battle” to get the film distributed.
He said: “Cinemas have been stopped from screening it, Labour councillors have been warned off watching it and it’s been totally boycotted by the mainstream media. It’s like certain people are trying to airbrush Jeremy Corbyn out of history — and, of course, they are!”
The TUC recently banned the film from the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival by the TUC claiming “it would not uphold the TUC’s values nor contribute to the safety of staff, stewards and attendees.”
Mr Thomas said the reasons given for the ban were “totally ridiculous”. He said:”The TUC is just trying to do what others are trying to do — suppress the truth about what’s happening in the Labour Party. The truth is, the film is a huge embarrassment to Keir Starmer and most of the mainstream media.”
Narrated by Alexei Sayle and starring award-winning film-maker Ken Loach, the documentary claims Jeremy Corbyn was a victim of a concerted smear campaign, that Keir Starmer played a deceptive “spy cop” role in the shadow cabinet and that he is now waging a vicious witch-hunt in the party..
Despite efforts to ban and block the film, according to Mr Thomas, it managed to get distribution by people organising DIY screenings across the country — and now it’s taken off.
He said: “It’s been a huge grassroots effort. Since being launched in London earlier this year the film has been taken up and screened by local groups in well over a hundred towns across the country, from Penzance to Glasgow. It’s been shown in pubs, clubs, meeting halls, churches — even art galleries. And more and more screenings are being set up well into the summer. It’s been phenomenal.”
Mr Thomas said the screening in Glastonbury will be much more than an “exercise in nostalgia” for the festival fans who greeted Jeremy Corbyn in June 2017.
He said: “The popularity of the film shows how much strength there still is in the movement that almost got Jeremy elected in 2017 — a movement that the mainstream media will continue to ignore at its peril.”
“Oh Jeremy Corbyn — The Big Lie” will be screened in the festival cinema in Glastonbury on Sunday 25 June at 2.45pm.
To see a trailer of the film, go to https://youtu.be/9TACIA7oSIk.
For information about the festival go to https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. For details about other screenings of the film go to https://www.facebook.com/platformfilmsuk/ or email [email protected].
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