Film Programme & Animation Nominees Announced for BFI Future Film Festival at BFI Southbank and Online
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The UK’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers, the BFI Future Film Festival 2023 returns from 16 – 19 February, live and in person at BFI Southbank whilst simultaneously offering a wideranging online festival accessible to worldwide audiences, kindly supported by Principal Partner Warner Bros. Discovery and Main Sponsor Netflix.
This year’s BFI Future Film Festival will include four jam-packed days filled with masterclasses, workshops, screenings, and networking opportunities, with events programmed across three strands: Storytelling, Business of Film and Career Ladder. With a host of industry experts and screen creatives leading the sessions, both online and in-person, the BFI Future Film Festival is the best way for filmmakers aged 16 to 25, across the UK and beyond, to break into the screen industries. The full industry programme will be announced on 25 January.
Today the BFI is pleased to announce the film programme for the BFI Future Film Festival 2023, which, for the first time, will be available to view for free worldwide on the BFI YouTube channel. Separated into 8 strands – Art & Performance, Family & Friends, Funny, Identity, Immigration & Belonging, Music, Our Planet and Society – the film programme is a collection of fifty-five shorts by talented filmmakers from across the globe, selected by the Festival team from more than 1000 submissions.
All of the films screening throughout this year’s BFI Future Film Festival will be in contention for the
prestigious BFI Future Film Festival Awards. The nominees will be announced soon, alongside juries of
industry experts who will judge each category. The winners will be revealed on the final day of the
Festival.
Best Animation Nominees
In BLACK METAL (Riley Street, 2021), a young girl sneaks from the house to see a black metal band in concert, forcing her overly religious parents to follow.
INTERDIMENSIONAL PIZZA PUSHERS (Lije Morgan, 2020) follows Honeybear and Fishlips, who race through dimensions and animation styles to make their pizza deliveries on time.
MIGRANTS (Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte, Zoé Devise, 2022) follows two polar bears driven into exile due to global warming. They encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they try to cohabitate.
In DON’T GO LITTLE DOE (Justin Fargiano, 2022) an energetic little doe unknowingly awakens a massive force of nature. When her enchanted playground turns wild, she must act quickly or meet an unwelcome fate.
PLEASE CLAP (Khalidah McLarty, 2022) follows Mikey the clown, who must confront the complex feelings he has regarding his persona after being fired from his job.
A full list of films can be viewed here.
For more information, and events programme updates from 25 January, visit www.bfi.org.uk/futurefilm-festival.