Guest programmer: Elaine Wong
Screening + Panel + Live DJ Set

Short Films, Instagram Reels and DJ Loops presented as an installation screening, from internet art pioneer Beeple and London based digital artists, with a live DJ set from Emile and Electricity. The event features a panel discussion that explores the origins of digital art on the internet with artists Andrea Bonaceto, Emile Rafael, Graceland London and Maliha Abidi, and curator Victoria Ivanova.

Gather round for an evening of digital installations, NFT's, and discussion as we delve into the new world of NFT art, and advancement of digital art.

BFI Future Film Labs: Producers

This month our panel illuminates the world of the film producer, followed by networking drinks.

12:30-15:30

Future Film Labs offers industry insight, practical masterclasses, professional advice and networking for young emerging filmmakers. This month our panel illuminates the world of the film producer, those talented individuals who help hold a project together. We wrap up with free networking drinks featuring drop-in scripting, casting and career surgeries with script doctors and our partners Backstage and Mandy.com.

Tickets £6 or bring a friend for £10

BFI Future Film Labs offers industry insight, practical masterclasses, professional advice and networking for young emerging filmmakers. This month our specialist panel answers the question, 'How on Earth did they do that?’

We wrap up with free networking drinks featuring drop-in scripting, casting and career surgeries with script doctors and our partners Backstage and Mandy.com.

Tickets just £6 or bring a mate for £10!

Screening: I AM (NOT) A MONSTER with intro + Q&A
BFI Southbank, London

In this thought-provoking and playful documentary, ebullient director Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian (Disaster Playground) takes you on a journey to find the origins of knowledge. This Preview at BFI Southbank will be hosted by BFI LFF Programmer Elaine Wong.

Dir Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
Prod Monika Baran, Chloe McClellan, Christopher Hird, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
With Noam Chomsky, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Magid Magid
UK
2019
98min
Prod Co Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Ltd

Starting with the thoughts of political theorist Hannah Arendt, Ben Hayoun-Stépanian (founder of the University of the Underground) travels the world to meet a variety of people and organisations including Magid Magid, Lord Mayor of Sheffield at the time, Pussy Riot activist Nadya Tolokonnikova, philosophers, alternative schools and many more. She ponders on the ownership and plurality of our thoughts, and the means by which freedom of learning and innovative education can exist in contemporary times. The result is a joyful potpourri of ideas and alternative thinking, propelled by a thrilling soundtrack of Ethiopian hip hop. Asserting that the need for change has never been more urgent, I Am (Not) a Monster is an ambitious yet accessible activist outcry: ‘knowledge is power’.

Mise-en-scène Shorts Part 1

With the aims of promoting short film and discovering upcoming directors, the Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival (MSFF), under the tagline ‘Beyond the Barriers of Genre’,  is the only film festival in Korea to give audiences the opportunity to view short films through the lens of genre. The mission of the MSFF is to discover short films with their own unique personality, and support those works which, through novel perspectives and fresh ideas, distort genres and transcend their boundaries.

This screening will be introduced by Elaine Wong. Elaine Wong is a Programme Advisor for the BFI London Film Festival's Shorts Programme selection. She also previews for Sheffield Doc/Fest and Underwire.

KCCUK, 05 Nov 2019 7:00 pm

Presented by BFI Doc Society this convening of friendly short-form commissioners explores opportunities to get financial (and other) support for your short documentary idea. What makes for a stand-out creative doc, how do you get access to funds and commissions, how do application processes vary and what to expect (and prepare for) if you get the green-light. With plenty of room for you questions, this is a great opportunity to dig deep with those on the funding frontline. 

With BFI Doc Society, Calling the Shots (New Creatives), NOWNESS and others to be announced. 

Moderated by Elaine Wong.

Watershed - Waterside 3
Watershed
1 Canons Road

September 25, 2019, 2:00 - 3:29 PM

The Life of a BAFTA-winning Short Film

Earlier this year, 73 Cows won a BAFTA for best British Short Film. Director Alex Lockwood, talks us through the life cycle of the film from initial concept through script development, funding and production to getting the film in front of festival programmers and audiences. Join us for practical insights into navigating the often perilous journey from script to screen.

Moderated by Elaine Wong.

Truman Brewery, Saturday 7th September, 13:30-14:30

Join us for a panel discussion with Dr Cliff Lauson (Hayward Gallery), Tiffany Leung (Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art) and Katy Wan (Tate Modern), moderated by Elaine Wong (BFI) exploring the development of moving image as a medium in East Asia, its diaspora and beyond.

'Moving Image as a Medium' is the first panel discussion part of the public programme of Dreams, illusions, phantom flowers, a collaborative project between Elephant and Edouard Malingue Gallery (Hong Kong/Shanghai) running at Elephant West from 13 - 28 April 2019.

The first in the ‘Trajectory Talks’ series will explore the nuances of a topic that has long fallen into platitudes and empty conjecture.

Does the answer to broadening audiences for XR lie with content, or technology? It's a challenging binary choice, but it's also potentially limiting.

We’ll unpack the arguments through lively discussion to reach a collective understanding of what a successful content-driven ecosystem looks like.

Four people from across the arts and tech space will frame the discourse, before we open up to a ‘fishbowl’ discussion where everyone has the opportunity to share their views and experiences. You are all experts, so we’ll hear from as many of you as we can.

Moderated by Elaine Wong.

The emotional power of film and television can be a forceful political tool: fear can be used for more than simply terrorising audiences, but to induce social commentary on anything from the race relations explored in 2017's Get Out, to the sinister impact of modern technology portrayed in Black Mirror.

Join us for a discussion of the horror genre in its broadest sense: the panel will explore the ways in which fear is theoretically and practically approached by filmmakers and what this says about ways we respond to and find purpose in visual culture in the modern day.

The panel will be chaired by Elaine Wong and we are delighted to be joined by Tom de Ville, Matthew Holness and Jimmy Dean.