Josie Long takes debut feature Super November on tour

This November is set to get a bit more super as Josie Long takes her debut feature film Super November on the road, with a tour that takes in Glasgow Film Theatre, Edinburgh’s Filmhouse and the DCA in Dundee, among others.

Written and starring Long, Super November sees the stand-up once again team up with Scottish director Douglas King, with whom she made the ace Glasgow-set short films Let’s Go Swimming and Romance and Adventure. You’ll find elements of those bittersweet comedies in Super November, but this feature is a much more ambitious prospect.

It’s a curious film of two halves, beginning as a dreamy romantic comedy and ending as a dark Orwellian fantasy, in which Britain has become a paranoid state run by a sadistic fascist government. “We wanted to explore how we don’t recognise the political impact on our lives cause we’re so wrapped up in personal day-to-day stuff,” said the film’s director, Douglas King. “The two parts mirror each other structurally and both feature an odyssey to the pub, but in drastically different circumstances!”

Super November screens as part of Dunoon Film Festival on 11 Nov and is followed by a mini-tour in late-November that’ll feature Q&As with Long and Douglas. The full list of tour dates are below:

11 Nov, Dunoon Film Festival
25 Nov, Prince Charles Cinema, London + Q&A
26 Nov, Glasgow Film Theatre + Q&A
27 Nov, Filmhouse, Edinburgh + Q&A
28 Nov, Eden Court, Inverness + Q&A
29 Nov, DCA, Dundee + Q&A
30 Nov, MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling + Q&A
1 Dec, Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds + Q&A