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SXSW.COM | F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 7 | SXS W O R L D 1 1 Jordan Peele's Us to Open SXSW Film Festival The world premiere of Jordan Peele's Us will be the Opening Night Film of the 26th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, on Friday, March 8. After sending shockwaves across contem- porary culture and setting a new standard for provocative, socially conscious horror films with his directorial debut Get Out, the Academy Award®-winning visionary returns with another original nightmare. "We are crazy excited to world premiere the most antici- pated film of 2019 from the creative powerhouse that brought us Get Out," said Janet Pierson, Director of Film. "We honestly couldn't imagine a more perfect film to kick off the 2019 SXSW Film Festival." Set in present day along the iconic Northern California coastline, Us stars Oscar® winner Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe (Black Panther's Winston Duke), and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) for an idyllic summer getaway. Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is about to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon and Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home to discover the silhouettes of four figures standing in their driveway. Us pits an ordinary American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves. Peele produced the film for his Monkeypaw Productions, alongside Monkeypaw creative director Ian Cooper, in the company's first solo production venture. Also producing are Sean McKittrick and SXSW 2019 Featured Speaker Jason Blum. Written and directed by Peele, Us will be released by Universal Pictures on Friday, March 15, 2019. T follow @sxsw REGISTER BY FEBRUARY 15 TO SAVE $100 ON THE WALKUP RATE JOIN THE WORLD'S LARGEST GATHERING OF CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS SXSW.COM2019SAVINGS Claudette Barius/Universal Pictures

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