Could you draw Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met or Steve Carell in Beau­ti­ful Boy?

We’re big fans of Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met and Steve Carell here at LWLies (you may recall Cha­la­met was the cov­er star of our Call Me by Your Name issue last sum­mer). As such, we’re look­ing for­ward to the release of Felix Van Groeningen’s Beau­ti­ful Boy, which sees Carell and Cha­la­met take on the roles of father and son David and Nic Sheff, whose rela­tion­ship is test­ed dur­ing Nic’s bat­tle with metham­phet­a­mine addiction.

When the film pre­miered at Toron­to Inter­na­tion Film Fes­ti­val we called it ​“a tri­umph of per­for­mance and emo­tion­al nuance”, and on 18 Jan­u­ary you can see it for your­selves in UK cin­e­mas. To cel­e­brate, we’re set­ting a new cre­ative brief, with some excel­lent prizes.

For this brief, we’d like you to send us an orig­i­nal illus­trat­ed por­trait of either Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met or Steve Carell as they appear in Beau­ti­ful Boy. Your entry can be as sim­ple or as intri­cate as you like, but it must incor­po­rate at least one of the fol­low­ing colours:

To help get you start­ed, we’ve embed­ded the offi­cial UK trail­er and quad poster below. Here’s the offi­cial synopsis:

Star­ring Acad­e­my Award® nom­i­nees Steve Carell (Fox­catch­er, The Big Short) and Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met (Call Me by Your Name), Beau­ti­ful Boy is a deeply mov­ing por­trait of a family’s unwa­ver­ing love and com­mit­ment to each oth­er in the face of their son’s addic­tion and his attempts at recov­ery. As Nic repeat­ed­ly relaps­es, the Sheffs are faced with the harsh real­i­ty that addic­tion is a dis­ease that does not dis­crim­i­nate and can hit any fam­i­ly at any time.

From the pro­duc­ers of Moon­light and 12 Years a Slave, and adapt­ed from David and Nic Sheff’s best-sell­ing mem­oirs by BAF­TA Award win­ner Luke Davies (Lion), Beau­ti­ful Boy is a sear­ing­ly hon­est account of the ways addic­tion can destroy lives and the pow­er of love to rebuild them.

There will be one main win­ner and five run­ners-up for this com­pe­ti­tion. The main win­ner will receive a one-year sub­scrip­tion to Lit­tle White Lies mag­a­zine, a copy of David Sheff’s mem­oir ​‘Beau­ti­ful Boy’, a copy of Nic Sheff’s mem­oir ​‘Tweak’, a DVD bun­dle, a Beau­ti­ful Boy poster and a print of their art­work, as well as a pair of tick­ets to watch the film at a Cur­zon cin­e­ma of their choosing.

The run­ners-up will receive a copy of David Sheff’s mem­oir ​‘Beau­ti­ful Boy’, a copy of Nic Sheff’s mem­oir ​‘Tweak’, a DVD bun­dle, and a Beau­ti­ful Boy poster. In addi­tion, all six win­ners will have their art­work dis­played at Cur­zon Soho in Lon­don to cel­e­brate the film’s release.

All entries must be pro­duced at A3 por­trait (297 x 420 mm) size. Sub­mit your design with the sub­ject line ​‘Beau­ti­ful Boy cre­ative brief’ to competitions@​tcolondon.​com. The dead­line for entries is mid­night on Sat­ur­day 12 Jan­u­ary.

You can also send us your entry via Twit­ter or Insta­gram by tag­ging @LWLies, but be sure to email us a hi-res ver­sion of your entry as well. Please remem­ber to include your full name so we know who to cred­it. Good luck!

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