Dubai Lynx to screen Exit Through The Gift Shop

Featured, Stuff — By Samer Marzouq on March 9, 2011 at 12:46 pm

Oscar-nominated film Exit Through the Gift Shop will be screened on the first day of the Dubai Lynx International Advertising Festival 2011, which will be held at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai between 27 – 29 of March 2011, the screening will bo on Sunday 27th of March at 2 pm.

Exit Through the Gift Shop is directed by Banksy, an anonymous British graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter, who describes his film in the trailer as the world’s first street art disaster movie, which gives me more reasons to watch it

Here is the description from wikipedia:
Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. The film charts Guetta’s constant documenting of his every waking moment on film, from a chance encounter with his cousin, the artist Invader, to his introduction to a host of street artists with a focus on Shepard Fairey and Banksy, whose anonymity is preserved by obscuring his face and altering his voice, to Guetta’s eventual fame as a street artist himself. The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on 24 January, 2010. It is narrated by Rhys Ifans. The music is by Geoff Barrow. It includes Richard Hawley’s “Tonight The Streets Are Ours.” The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 83rd Academy Awards.