11/11/2002

The screening at the RLFF, the Regus London Film festival of the US independent film, Ken Park was cancelled on 9 November following a fist fight that took place two days earlier between the director Larry Clark and the film’s UK distributor Hamish McAlpine of Metro Tartan.
Clark and McAlpine were having a heated discussion about the September 11 attack on America over dinner in a London restaurant, when the director suddenly punched McAlpine and overturned the table at which they were seated. McALpine was treated in hospital for his injuries while the 59-year-old US director of Kids was held at a police station and released four hours later following a caution.
McAlpine decided to stop the gala screening of Clarke’s latest film at the RLFF and may even decide against Metro Tartan’s distributing it in the UK. This arthouse distributor has a number of films screening at the RLFF including Sophie Fiennes’ Hoover Street Revival, a French film by Delphine Gleize entitled Carnage and two FIPRESCI-nominated titles: Italy’s Respiro by Emanuele Crialese and the Tadziki film, Angel On The Right.