Boots Riley, the musician-turned-director behind Sorry to Bother You, brought his fashion-world caper I Love Boosters, with Keke Palmer and Demi Moore, to a London Film Festival gala.
Boots Riley, the director of Sorry to Bother You, brought his fashion-world caper I Love Boosters to the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Friday 9 October 2026. Keke Palmer and Demi Moore head the cast.
Riley was born in Chicago in 1971, the son of a civil rights attorney, and grew up in Oakland. There he helped organise a walkout by 2,000 students at Oakland High School against cutbacks.
In 1991 he founded the political hip hop group The Coup. His first film as writer and director, Sorry to Bother You, began as a Coup album of the same name.
Corvette, an aspiring designer, leads The Velvet Gang, a crew who steal clothes from the boutiques of the fashion entrepreneur Christie Smith. When Smith steals one of Corvette’s designs, the gang raise their game.
Sorry to Bother You played this festival in 2018. I Love Boosters, his second feature, brought him back for its international premiere.
Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige and LaKeith Stanfield join Palmer and Moore in the cast.