The British Guide to Showing Off (2011)
For the outsider in all of us
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
- Date of release
- 2011-11-11
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jes Benstock
Casting
- Andrew Logan
- Brian Eno
- Grayson Perry
- Zandra Rhodes
- Richard O'Brien
- Divine — Self (archive footage)
- Ruby Wax — Self
- Louise Walker — Miss Majhordia Beach
- Richard Torry — Self
- Quentin Logan — Miss Elementary My Dear
- Janet Slee — Miss Hokusai
- Andrey Bartenev — Miss Bubbles of Hope
Interesting facts
The British Guide to Showing Off is a 2011 documentary film written and directed by Jes Benstock, which follows the build-up and execution of the twelfth Alternative Miss World - artist Andrew Logan's pastiche of the Miss World beauty pageant.
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