Director Kunle Afolayan and actor Wale Ojo discuss Phone Swap, a Nigerian comedy in which two people accidentally exchange phones and have to follow different walks of life.
Director Tunde Kelani talks about the making of Maami, his film following a Nigerian footballer who returns to his homeland and recalls his childhood in the town of Abeokuta.
Director Ben Wheatley, critics Michel Ciment & Kim Newman, Kubrick’s long-standing collaborator Jan Harlan & producer Tanya Seghatchian discuss The Shining.
Director Im Kwon-Taek (Mandala, Drunk on Women and Poetry) discusses his career in an event kicking off Run Far, Fly High, a season of his films at BFI Southbank.
Celebrated screenwriter Paula Milne visits BFI Southbank to coincide with a season of her television work. In this onstage Q&A she discusses her formative years writing scripts for Coronation Street, as a lone Southern woman among a group of Northern men.
In a special event as part of the BFI's Genius of Hitchcock season, actor Tippi Hedren, the star of The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), recalls working with the master of suspense.
How does a composer write a score for a silent film? BFI Head Curator Robin Baker interviews composer Nitin Sawhney about the latter's music for our new restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger (1926).
Director Patricio Guzmán discusses his highly acclaimed and very personal documentary Nostalgia for the Light. Guzmán describes his first visit to Chile's Atacama desert, the location which inspired and is central to the film.
After a screening of The Bruce Lacey Experience, a new documentary by Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller about the influential, eccentric artist and filmmaker, the directors and Lacey are interviewed at BFI Southbank.
BSkyB Head of Comedy Lucy Lumsden talks about her career in television sitcoms, working with various television executives and considers the future for television comedy.
Derek Boshier, a key figure in the British Pop Art Movement and the creator of a number of pioneering film experiments, is interviewed by curator Will Fowler at BFI Southbank.
Actor Tannishtha Chatterjee discusses her role in Dekh Indian Circus, a Rajasthan-set drama which premiered as part of the 2012 London Indian Film Festival.
