Last week, we were delighted to host the UK Premiere of We Live in Time at the Royal Festival Hall as this year's BFI London Film Festival (LFF) Mayor of London Gala. Star of the film Andrew Garfield attended on the evening, flanked by the director John Crowley and a cardboard cut-out of co-star Florence Pugh.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan opened the sold-out proceedings, underlining how quintessentially London the film is.

Film London was once again very active throughout the 68th BFI London Film Festival. The annual Film London Production Finance Market took place in the first week of the festival, where 117 producers and filmmakers and 68 financiers came together for a series of 1:1 meetings as a way to navigate potential business partners and investment. The event was opened with a keynote from John Graydon, senior partner at Saffery, in conversation with Judith Chan, Executive Director in Media Banking for Coutts & Co. The team behind Grand Theft Hamlet also presented a case study about the making of the film. Having attended PFM’s New Talent Strand in 2023, Grand Theft Hamlet premiered at SXSW this year and won the Grand Jury award for Best Documentary Feature, and received its UK premiere at LFF.

As with every year, we were delighted to deliver London Calling as part of the LFF for Free programme. London Calling is a selection of shorts from some of London’s most exciting new voices, funded by BFI NETWORK and delivered by Film London.

FLAMIN alumni featured in the Experimenta Works in Progress event. Providing space for community, mutual support, and open feedback, in order to find an expanded notion of film culture. Selected projects included: 15 Iranian Years, which looks at Adonia Bouchehri's mother's experiences of Iran between her birth in 1963 and her departure in 1979; Mahenderpal Sorya's The Krueger Institute, an exploration of the connection between trauma, diasporic memory, and film spectatorship; and Edd Carr's I Am a Dale, a film made with sustainable photographic processes that challenges idyllic views of the landscape.