The British Guide to Showing Off

For the outsider in all of us

APPROPIATE

2011 / 98min.

Rating6.6

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a history of the contest (which has run eccentrically since 1972) which was set up firstly as an excuse to have a good party, but has grown into a celebration of alternative lifestyles and sexualities. The documentary mixes archive footage, animated inserts, with talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall look at the organisation of the 2009 event

Directors

Actors

Duggie Fields

Simon Callow

Ruby Wax

Richard O'Brien

Divine

Andrew Logan

Nell Campbell

Julian Clary

Michael Cashman

Derek Jarman

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