CBS Films’ PRIDE To Have North American Premiere At Toronto Film Festival

CBS Films has announced that PRIDE will have its North American Premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Inspired by a true story and in the vein of FULL MONTHY and BILLY ELLIOT, PRIDE follows two very different communities who found strength by standing together.

PRIDE is inspired by an extraordinary true story.  It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families.  Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person.  As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all.

Directed by Tony Award-winner Matthew Warchus (God of Carnage) from a screenplay by Stephen Beresford, the film stars Bill Nighy (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Imelda Staunton (Maleficent), Dominic West (The Hour), Paddy Considine (Submarine), Andrew Scott (Sherlock), Joseph Gilgun (Lockout), George MacKay (How I Live Now) and Ben Schnetzer (Warcraft).

PRIDE opens in theaters on September 19.

Official site: http://www.cbsfilms.com/pride/