MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM opens in select theaters on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29^th

Nationwide on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25^th

**For interview interest with Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Justin Chadwick (director) and Anant Singh (producer), please contact Heather Secrist, Heather.Secrist@weinsteinco.com **

PRESS SCREENINGS:

Thursday, November 21^st  at 6pm in Magno Screening Room

Monday, November 25^th at 6pm in Dolby 24

Magno Screening Room – 729 Seventh Avenue (b/t 48^th and 49^th Streets)

Dolby 24 – 1350 Avenue of the Americas, 28^th Floor

PLEASE RSVP TO:

Heather Secrist | heather.secrist@weinsteinco.com

Based on the 1994 autobiography of the same name, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM chronicles the inspirational life of Nelson Mandela as an international icon and one of the world’s most revered leaders. Directed by Justin Chadwick (THE FIRST GRADER, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL) and adapted by Academy Award® nominated screenwriter William Nicholson (SHADOWLANDS, GLADIATOR, LES MISERABLES), the film spans Mandela’s exceptional life journey from his early years as a herd boy in South Africa’s rural Cape region, to his days as a lawyer and Apartheid resistance leader, and on to his twenty-seven years spent in Robben Island prison before becoming the nation’s first democratically elected President. Acclaimed actor Idris Elba (THE WIRE, LUTHER, PROMETHEUS, PACIFIC RIM, THOR) stars, with Naomie Harris (THE FIRST GRADER, SKYFALL) playing the role of his wife Winnie Mandela, with whom he shared a passionate and troubled love affair that endured over decades. A stellar South African supporting cast is headlined by Tony Kgoroge (INVICTUS), Riaad Moosa(MATERIAL), Fana Mokoena (World War Z, Machine Gun Preacher), Jamie Bartlett (Beyond Borders), Deon Lotz (SKOONHEID, SLEEPER’S WAKE), Simo Mogwaza (DISTRICT 9), Terry Pheto (TSOTSI), Thapelo Mokoena (NOTHING FOR MAHALA), and Praise Singer and Poet of the Nation, Zolani Mkiva.

Directed by Justin Chadwick

Written by William Nicholson

Produced by Anant Singh

Runtime: 146 minutes

Watch the trailer:

http://mandelafilm.com/

Press Materials:

http://www.twcpublicity.com

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