A dramatisation of a story about a woman’s search to find the remains of Richard III under a car park in Leicester, England, will feature on the big screen as a fundraiser for Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign.
The movie, The Lost King, will screen at The Crossing Theatre on Thursday, December 1, for a 7pm movie start.
Oscar nominees Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge) and director Stephen Frears (The Queen) join forces, retelling the story of the historian who found the lost remains of King Richard III.
The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley (Hawkins), whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics.
The Lost King is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country’s most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England’s history.
The Rotary film night is an annual event that raises funds towards the eradication of polio.
Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly three billion children in 122 countries from this paralysing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyse as many as 200,000 children each year.
Tickets to the screening of The Lost King cost $27.50 and can be purchased from The Crossing Theatre.
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