BFI chief says festival will hold strong focus on films made by and starring women in hope it can ‘kickstart change’The organisers of the BFI London film festival hold said 2015’s event will be “the year of the strong women” in a tender to redress the gender imbalance in the film industry. The BFI’s chief executive,Amanda Nevill, said this year’s festival would hold a strong focus on films made by and starring a range of women in hope that it could be “a real moment to kickstart change”. Only 45 of the 238 films in the festival line-up are helmed by women, and however. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com