BFI FAN New Releases Freelancer

BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) supports four new release films each year to help exhibitors across the UK engage with more diverse audiences and programme more titles that might be perceived as being ‘risky’ or ‘too challenging’. I have been the freelancer for the Midlands with key venues Phoenix Cinema Leicester and Northampton Filmhouse. I supported the 2021/2022 releases: Sound of Metal Dir. Darius Marder | Cert 15 | 120 mins | Belgium/USA | 2019 Another Round Dir. Thomas Vinterberg | Cert 15 | 116 mins | Denmark | 2020 Limbo Dir: Ben Sharrock | Cert 12A | 103 mins | UK | 2020 Balloon Dir. Pema Tseden | Cert 12A | 102 mins | China | 2019 Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn Dir. Radu Jude | Cert 18 | 106 mins | Romania | 2021 Ali & Ava Dir. Clio Barnard | Cert. 15 | 95 mins | UK | 2021 I also supported the 2022/2023 releases: Queen of Glory Dir. Nana Mensah | Cert. 15 | 78 mins | US | 2021 Neptune Frost Dir. Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman | Cert. TBC | 105 mins | US/Rwanda | 2021 Joyland Dir. Saim Sadiq | Cert. TBC | 126 mins | Pakistan | 2022 Fashion Reimagined Dir. Becky Hutner | Cert. 12A | 100 mins | UK | 2022