'The Show About the Show' is a meta-series about its own making, the premise being that each episode is about the making of the previous episode.

Please Note : Tickets for this performance will be made available to PCC Members from Tuesday 4th February, with a Public On Sale to follow on Thursday 6th February. 

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This March, the Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend (CNFW) and Electric Blue Cinema are bringing legendary documentary filmmaker Caveh Zahedi to the UK.

Ten years after premiering The Show About the Show, a meta-series where each episode is about the making of the previous episode, Zahedi is bringing the show to a close with the long-awaited Season 3 (which follows season 1, 2, and 4).

On March 9th, join Zahedi at the Prince Charles Cinema for a retrospective screening of Season 1, and then return to the PCC a week later on March 16th, where you’ll be one of the first audiences to see Season 3.

During the week in between, Zahedi will attend various screenings and events to celebrate and discuss his work. These will take place at venues throughout London and the UK. Details to be announced.

About Caveh Zahedi:

Caveh Zahedi (I Am a Sex Addict, The Sheik and I, I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore) has spent the last 30 years documenting his life on camera, sometimes to the detriment of his personal relationships, but always aspiring toward absolute honesty.

An acknowledged influence on filmmakers such as Richard Linklater, Lena Dunham, Greta Gerwig, and the Safdie brothers, Zahedi’s personal documentation is unmatched in its uncompromising nature and its longevity. Less a series of individual, self-contained works, Zahedi’s film and TV output is perhaps best thought of as a continuous body of work that captures a life lived for art.

The Show About the Show — which documents the breakdown of his marriage as well as the last tens years of his creative practice — is an epic odyssey that, for better or worse (that’s up to you) encapsulates everything Zahedi is dedicated to as a filmmaker.

“His body of work at the end of the day will be like a lengthy Walt Whitman poem. It will be a ‘Song of Myself.” It will be one of the greatest poems ever written, because it applies to everybody.” – Richard Linklater

“Caveh Zahedi can be summarized most simply as the Woody Allen of some parallel cinematic universe in which being awkward, funny, highly intelligent and neurotically confessional gets you almost nowhere.” – Mike Boehm, LA Times

“The last best hope for American film.” – Ray Carney

“Every topic Caveh touches — sex, drugs, politics (in short, the stuff of life) — becomes at once infinitely personal and explosively debatable. The films shock, offend and incinerate with wild ease ... Aside from the myriad of reactions you will have to Caveh and, therefore, yourself, you will also witness the most wild n’ woolly yet controlled/composed filmmaker’s touch.” – Lena Dunham