London Film Festival: Working Title Heads, Apple TV+ Euro Boss, ‘Zone of Interest’ Sound Designer Among Industry Lineup
variety.comAlex Ritman The 2024 BFI London Film Festival has unveiled a bustling lineup of speakers and events for its industry forum.
Set to take place between Oct. 10-16 at the Picturehouse Central cinema in central London, the festival’s industry arm is headlined by a trio of “LFF Spotlight” conversations with Working Title Films co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (whose current output includes Steve McQueen’s festival opener “Blitz”), Searchlight’s head of international production and development Katie Goodson-Thomas, and Apple TV+ creative director for Europe — and BFI Chair — Jay Hunt.
Elsewhere, Variety is sponsoring a conversation with Johnnie Burn, the award-winning sound designer whose long list of credits include a lengthy collaborative partnership with Yorgos Lanthimos (including last year’s “Poor Things”) and “The Zone of Interest,” for which he won an Oscar.
Other events include discussions with documentary filmmakers Cécile Embleton (“Mother Vera”) and Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter (“Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other”) and the team behind “Last Swim,” including co-writer/director Sasha Nathwani, cinematographer Olan Collardy, co-writer/producer Helen Simmons and producers Campbell Beaton and Nisha Mullea .
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