Join us for the London premiere of this hilarious, timely comedy. With a stellar cast including Charlotte Ritchie (Ghosts), Tanya Moodie (Motherland), Nicholas Asbury (Alma’s Not Normal) and Raj Ghatak (Starter for Ten), Hostages will launch the LOCO London Comedy Film Festival with a bang and will include a Q&A with writer/director Jim Owen and members of the cast. After a terrifying explosion in a London hotel, three strangers escape together and hide out in a room, with chaotic, surprising, and very funny results. While the strangers wait for news of what’s going on, authorities tell them ‘Just sit in the middle of the room and be quiet.’ It sounds simple, but in the age of the smartphone, staying quiet is harder than it sounds. Hostages is an explosive new comedy about the 24hr news cycle, experts, and whether social media is more important than people’s lives. (It is…)