Trix Worrell's Film Night: For Queen and Country

Award winning writer and Book Festival Patron, Trix Worrell,  wrote the script for the film For Queen and Country which starred Denzel Washington.

We will be screening the film in which Washington stars as a Black British former paratrooper, who joined the British Army to escape the poverty of inner city London; He fights in the Falklands War, and upon returning home he finds that society ignores and challenges him while trying to adjust to normal life.

The film has been reevaluated since its release as a serious critique of Thatcherism and its effects on the UK in the 1980s.

Following the screening we are delighted to have Trix hosting a Q&A.

More about Trix:

Trix Worrell started as a theatre writer and director. At the Albany Empire in Deptford London. In the late ’70s and early '80s, He went on to create the Albany Basement Youth Theatre Company, where he taught Dance and formed The Basement youth Dance Company’, he was Co-Founder of ‘Second Wave’ a young women’s drama group . 

Trix has written and directed plays in most of the leading London fringe theatres from Upstairs at the Royal Court to The Ovalhouse. 

A graduate of the National Film and Television School, and winner of Channel 4's "Debut" writers competition, Worrell went on to create, write and direct Desmond's and Porkpie for Channel 4 and What You Looking At for London Weekend Television.

He has lectured at a host of Universities, lecturing across the UK. Teaching a Master Screenwriting course At De Montfort University. He has also taught in three of the most prestigious film schools in Europe; at the NFTS in the UK. Łódż National Film School in Poland and the French National Film School, La Fémis in Montmartre Paris.

He is a BAFTA nominee, British Comedy and the Royal Television Society award winner. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the Royal Television Society. He is the first recipient of "Vantage", a special award presented at BAFTA by Screen Nation. Worrell was made an honorary member of the British Comedy Academy in 2011.

He was also voted one of the "100 Great Black Britons Throughout History" by the Daily Mail. An excerpt from Desmond's was used in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.