Filmmakers Max Minghella and Prano Bailey-Bond, and executives from Film4 and BBC Film are among the speakers on the industry programme of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF, August 13-19).
The programme includes the four panels of the UK Film Conference.
Minghella and Bailey-Bond will participate in the closing session New Nightmares, addressing the state of genre work, alongside filmmakers Chee Keong Cheung and Joby Stephens.
The conference also has sessions on low-budget filmmaking and Would This Get Made?, in which speakers will offer their approach if different projects came across their desk. Participants include producer Christine Vachon, Film4’s Stefanie Fahrion, BBC Film’s Alice Ojha, Altitude’s Laura Wilson, and Simon Renshaw of Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.
The conference will open with a keynote session of BFI CEO Ben Roberts in conversation with Picturehouse Cinemas creative director Clare Binns.
A series of industry talks will include Beyond the Debut, at which alumni of the British Independent Film Awards’ Springboard programme will discuss their journeys from first to second feature film.
Mia Bays, director of the BFI Filmmaking Funds, will host an industry talk titled The Business of Film Roadshow, with representatives from financier Head Gear, law firm Lee & Thompson, and pitching specialists Smash. Further talks include discussions on the impact of colonialism on cinema, and about angel investors.
The festival will also host previously announced in conversation sessions with Ewan McGregor, Kenneth Branagh, Bruce Dern and Ken Burns, plus an industry talk with Vachon.
The festival will open with the international premiere of Louis Paxton’s The Incomer, and close with Louise Lockwood’s documentary Bel.
EIFF CEO and festival director Paul Ridd said the industry programme “offers up a diverse and starry range of guests, talks, lively discussions and networking opportunities for Scottish, UK and international folk looking to make connections and hear from some leading experts in their fields, all more accessible than ever before”.
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