The Calgary Underground Film Festival
EBONY AND IVORY
United Kingdom, 2024: 88 minutes: Canadian Premiere
description
Two musical legends convene at a remote Scottish cottage to discuss a potential collaboration that may unite an entire generation.
Stevie (Gil Gex, DANGEROUS MEN), a blind musical legend, sails to the Mull Of Kintyre to visit Paul (Sky Elobar, star of THE GREASY STRANGLER), another musical icon. What results is a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a Global Number One smash hit single. EBONY AND IVORY offers a highly fictionalized account of the first meeting between Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder as they get to know each other with the hope of sparking a future collaboration. Director and writer of the cult-sensation THE GREASY STRANGLER and the CUFF 2018 Opening Night Film AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN, CUFF favourite Jim Hosking returns to the festival with his latest deadpan absurdist indie comedy.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Fantastic Fest 2024
Night Visions Film Festival 2024
Glasgow Film Festival 2025
press for Ebony And Ivory
"A wildly entertaining delight.... A side-splitting good time."- IndieWire
"Absurdist humour, bizarre scenarios, and surreal dialogue exchanges are to be cherished.... We’re happy to live in Hosking’s world for as long as possible"- 5/5. – Starburst Magazine
details
special guest
Director Jim Hosking, and actors Sky Elobar & Gil Gex in attendance
credits
Director
Jim Hosking
Executive Producers
Robert Dujmusic
Tim League
Michael Flexner
Producers
Jim Hosking
Denzil Monk
Ant Timpson
Screenwriter
Jim Hosking
Cinematographer
Mårten Tedin
Cast
Sky Elobar
Gil Gex
Carl Solomon
Music
Andrew Hung