Itself a spinoff from the annual Raindance Film Festival, the British Independent Film Awards, founded in 1988 as an upstart alternative to the straitlaced BAFTA, recently launched its own ancillary event. Titled Bifa Meets, it offers a chance for cineastes to spend an hour with some of the biggest names in independent film.
On Nov. 17, it was the turn of two-time Bifa winner Brendan Gleeson to take the stage at a curious moment in world history, in the eerie doldrums between Donald Trump moving into the White House and the U.K. leaving — or not — the European Union. What Gleeson said that night struck a chord with Deena Wallace, together with Amy Gustin one of the Bifa’s joint co-directors.
“Brendan said that the purpose of film — and the arts generally — is to make us feel less alone,” Wallace recalls. “He said that film has the power to create real empathy and shared human experience,...
On Nov. 17, it was the turn of two-time Bifa winner Brendan Gleeson to take the stage at a curious moment in world history, in the eerie doldrums between Donald Trump moving into the White House and the U.K. leaving — or not — the European Union. What Gleeson said that night struck a chord with Deena Wallace, together with Amy Gustin one of the Bifa’s joint co-directors.
“Brendan said that the purpose of film — and the arts generally — is to make us feel less alone,” Wallace recalls. “He said that film has the power to create real empathy and shared human experience,...
- 11/30/2016
- by Damon Wise
- Variety - Film News
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