Mission To Lars, the film about a learning disabled man, Tom Spicer, and his transatlantic quest to find his hero, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich, will be screened at Cape Town's Sound On Screen Festival later this month.

Created in 2010 and curated by Flamedrop Productions, Sound On Screen unites movies and music in a cinema environment. Now in its 4th year, the event will screen at The Labia Theatre in Cape Town from April 26th to May 2nd, with two of the key films (Mission To Lars and Sound Of Noise) also screening at The Bioscope in Johannesburg.

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Mission To Lars is on sale now in Northern Europe and features a special bonus 30-minute interview with Lars as a bonus. An excerpt from that exclusive interview can now be seen below:

Lars Ulrich is a heavy metal god with his own jumbo jet. Tom Spicer lives in a care home in Devon and has Fragile X Syndrome. Tom has a dream, to meet his hero, to meet Lars. His siblings promise to make it happen, with hopes of good times and bonding. But what starts out a dream soon becomes a nightmare as Tom’s disabilities, a dysfunctional family, and heavy metal’s labyrinthine backstage world thwart the mission at every turn. But as they get closer to Lars, Tom the man starts to shine.

After 20 years and 10,000 times of asking his journalist sister, Kate, when he was going to meet Lars, she finally cracked. This moving documentary film that looks beyond disability, and uncovers the soul of a very cool guy. Kate and filmmaker brother, William, break Tom out of his care home in Exmouth, and hit the road, from Bristol, to Heathrow, to Los Angeles, to Las Vegas and beyond.

Mission To Lars was made by William Spicer and James Moore. Both were veterans of music and brand promos, but complete movie novices.

"We had this fantasy of hitting the road with Tom and recreating some of the magic of our teenage years cruising around in £100 cars, eating Burger King and listening to heavy metal on the tape deck," says Kate. "We thought it would be fun, bonding. We wanted to do something good for our brother. We were also sick of him endlessly asking."

It doesn't take long before the hoped for dream becomes a nightmare as Tom's disabilities, the dysfunctional family, and Metallica's labyrinthine backstage world thwart the Mission at every turn.

The film has three goals: entertainment, awareness raising and fund raising. All profits go to Mencapthe UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers. Mencap have been closely involved in the making of the film. Their belief is that the film, in an entertaining and universally understood way, tells the story of the confusing family dynamics around learning disability, and portrays Tom as a complex and likeable character, and not as someone one sees first as learning disabled and everything else second.

For more information visit Missiontolars.com.