BFI Flare - London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival

Wednesday 17 to Sunday 28 March 2021

Join BFI Flare for 12 days of the best new LGBTIQ+ cinema from around the world, special events and more.

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What to expect

If you’re in the UK

  • Feature film premieres and free short films on BFI Player

  • Watch films any time during the festival

  • Exclusive Q&As and introductions

  • Closed captioning and audio description on English-language films

Free to watch worldwide

  • Virtual events programme including Screen Talks, with BSL and closed captioning

  • #FiveFilmsForFreedom: 5 short films presented in partnership with British Council

Find out more

Dates for the diary

Tuesday 23 February 6pm
Programme launch on BFI YouTube and BFI Flare Facebook.

Thursday 25 February
Priority booking opens for BFI Patrons and BFI Champions.

Friday 26 February
Priority booking opens for BFI Members.

Tuesday 2 March
Public booking opens.

Wednesday 17 to Sunday 28 March
The festival takes place.

BFI Future Film Festival

Some great talks and events in this year's free online BFI Future Film Festival, including Jeremy Deller workshop about creative use of archives and Will Hooper discussing the collaborative process of making Dua Lipa’s visual mixtape, Future Nostalgia, in lockdown on Saturday.

Also check out today’s session on a ‘How to be a successful freelancer in the screen industries’

Check out full programme at:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/future-film-festival/free-industry-events-programme-date

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Archive fever: unlocking the storytelling potential of film archives. Workshop with Jeremy Deller

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Archives for Education are running a free Zoom workshop at 12:00 today at the BFI Future Film Festival with Turner Prize-winning artist and filmmaker Jeremy Deller on the creative re-use of archive film: https://www.bfi.org.uk/future-film-festival/events/archive-fever-unlocking-storytelling-potential-film-archives

If you miss the workshop, it will be streaming on the BFI YouTube channel afterwards. You can follow the project @makefilmhistory to stay updated with forthcoming events.

'We've been delighted to hear so many of you are using archive material from the scheme with your students during the lockdown and are very keen to hear of further films you would like to see added to the collection, so please send us your suggestions. Our archive partners are happy to consider all requests and are committed to adding more films to the project as it develops.

We'd also love to see some of the films created using archive material from the scheme. The FOCAL Awards are now open for submissions and you may be interested in submitting student work in the Short Film category: https://focalintawards.com/awards-2020/2020-production-categories/ ' Best, Shane (Archives for Education).

REGISTER HERE

Jeremy Deller is great artist and filmmaker - more about his work at:

http://poool.co.uk/jeremy-deller

UCW is member of Archives for Education - 'The Archives for Education and Make Film History projects make available over 200 films from the BFI National Archive, BBC Archive, Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive, the Irish Film Institute and the London Community Video Archive for creative reuse by young filmmakers in schools, film training and higher education across the UK and Ireland.' More details at: https://www.archivesforeducation.com/ If you wish to use this speak with Rich or Ross.