Win Free Tickets to Our Early LA and NYC Screenings of Venice Winner 'Straight Circle' With Director Q&A
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Collider is proud to announce that we’re partnering with Joint Venture Productions to offer our readers in Los Angeles and New York City the opportunity to see early screenings of the award-winning film, Straight Circle, from first-time feature writer and director Oscar Hudson. This innovative satire was the grand prize winner of the Venice Film Festival Critics Week 2025, has taken home a collection of wins, including Most Innovative Film, Best Director, and the Audience Award during its festival circuit run, and is being heralded by Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho as “fucking great.” Check out the full details below on how to enter for your chance to win free tickets to these advanced showings, plus a Q&A with Hudson after the film.
Don’t miss out on your chance to catch this timely comedy in theaters early! If you’re in the New York City area, join us on Friday, November 6th, at The Lighthouse. The showing will begin at 7:00 p.m., followed by the Q&A, moderated by our own Steve Weintraub. If you’re in Los Angeles, the showing will be on Monday, November 9th, at Brain Dead Studios. The LA screening will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with Hudson.
How to Get 'Straight Circle' Tickets
Don’t miss your chance to win free tickets to one of our early screenings! These fan events will fill up quickly, so claim your seats. For your chance to join us in NYC on November 6th for an early screening of Straight Circle, plus a conversation with the filmmaker, hit this link to provide us with your email address. If you want to attend the L.A. screening and Q&A on the 9th, hit this link to provide us with your email address. Be sure to select the correct link for your location, and let us know if you’d like to bring a guest with you, and RSVP as soon as possible to secure your spot. All confirmed guests will receive an email confirmation.
What Is 'Straight Circle'?
Award-winning filmmaker Hudson began to work on the script for what would become Straight Circle, an imaginative and surreal examination of what happens when borders drawn in the sand begin to blur. Now, this acclaimed first feature is more relevant than ever, as Hudson takes aim at nationalism and unchecked autocratic regimes across the globe.
Starring Elliott and Luke Tittensor (House of the Dragon) and Neill Maskell (Hijack), Straight Circle chronicles a frenzied descent into madness when two enemy soldiers are posted opposite one another in the middle of a vast, featureless desert. Their mission is simply to exist as ceremonial symbols of the shaky truce between their two nations, but as the hours dwindle on in tedium, surrounded by the dull, unending landscape, their hostility and boredom put their identities, loyalties, and the absurdity of the situation into question, confusing the line between friend and foe.
Straight Circle opens in theaters for a limited time on December 11. Check out Collider for more special screening events.
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