Naman Ramachandran The British Film Institute’s London Film Festival (LFF) is adopting a hybrid physical-online model for the first time in its history, and the process has been fraught with the myriad difficulties expected in a global pandemic.“The biggest challenge, the whole time, has been stepping into the unknown,” festival director Tricia Tuttle told Variety.
A festival of the scale of LFF, that in pre-pandemic times screened some 250 features across the city, with offshoots around the U.K., takes at least five months to put together. “We really had to lock early before we knew what the autumn would look like.
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