Rowan Woods: Putting together the London Film Festival

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Filmtalkz catches up with Rowan Woods, the London Film Festival’s Series and Episodic Programmer for the BFI, just as the festival is about to begin, to chat about what we can expect, the months of planning that goes in to it, and how it caters to all audiences.

We touch on the infamous Don’t Worry Darling (2022) drama and the impact social media has had in democratising film festivals, the new generation of film critics with apps like Letterboxd, and how the role of the film festival has changed in a post-streaming service world.

The London Film Festival runs from 4-15 October 2023, and boasts talks from Martin Scorsese and Greta Gerwig, as well as showing some of the most exciting recent films, like Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (2023) starring Jacob Elordi and Barry Keogahn, Foe (2023) starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (2023) with Mescal again as Andrew Scott’s love interest, The Kitchen (2023) with Daniel Kaluuya, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) with Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio, Yorgos Lanthimos’ much-anticipated Poor Things (2023) with Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe, and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023).

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