Year: 2025
Director: Paul Sng
Co-Producer: Rohan Berry Crickmar
Executive Producer: Sarah Drummond, Kat Mansoor, Mark Thomas
Associate Producer: Kristin Atwood, Sam Barber, Emma Currie
Archive Producer: James R.M. Hunt
Production Company: LS Films
Distributor: Kaleidoscope
Screen Scotland support: The film accessed funding through Screen Scotland’s Film Development and Production Fund
Synopsis
Irvine Welsh is at a crossroads in his life. After finding huge success with several film adaptations and six million books sold worldwide, he has become acutely aware of his mortality. Now, with his hedonistic days drawing to a close, the outspoken author takes a wild journey that explores the boundaries of consciousness through a hallucinogenic trip.
This captivating piece of biographical filmmaking combines intimate observational footage, rare archive film clips and readings from his novels narrated by Liam Neeson (Batman Begins, Star Wars), Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, Shameless), musician Nick Cave, Ruth Negga (Ad Astra, Passing) and Stephen Graham (Adolescence, The Irishman).
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Premiere: The film will have its World Premiere as the Closing Night of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 20 August 2025.
Image credit: Chris McCluskie