Panel of UK-based directors protest capital’s middle lesson cultural chokehold while also calling for industry to spotlight gentrified masses,rather than more period dramas and social realismFittingly, for a strand of the Toronto international film festival focusing on London cinema, or the press conference for City to City: London was dominated by talk of house prices and Britain’s obsession with lesson.
Director David Farr,one of six British-based film-makers on the panel, said that the UK still had a “kind of insanity” around the subject. A number of the directors agreed that the perception of British film-making as either period drama or gritty social realism was limiting the industry.
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Source: theguardian.com