Having already been screened at the Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival, Sony Pictures is releasing the documentary THE ARMSTRONG LIE, based on champion cyclist Lance Armstrong’s shocking doping scandal, in January next year. Before that it will be featured at the Mumbai Film Festival starting tomorrow. The Festival’s schedule can be downloaded on: http://www.mumbaifilmfest.org/app/downloads/screening_schedule.pdf

THE ARMSTRONG LIE

Language:                           English 

India Release Date:         24-Jan-14

Genre:                                  Documentary   

Director:                              Alex Gibney      

Cast:                                      Lance Armstrong, Betsy Andreu, Frankie Andreu, Dan Coyle, George Hincapie, Bill Strickland, Jonathan Vaughters      

Website                               www.thearmstrongliefilm.com

Trailer:                            http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony/thearmstronglie/#videos-large

In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.

The Armstrong Lie" picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong himself says: "I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one."