The organisers behind London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival have shared their digital plans online.
Following its cancellation this week due to the coronavirus pandemic, BFI Flare’s London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival has now devised a digital-only offer for festival bookers. The event has announced that they’ll be shifting the festival to BFI Flare at Home, giving festival bookers the opportunity to watch shorts and features that were due to screen at the event.
Films such as And Then We Danced and Don’t Look Down, and the documentary For They Know Not What They Do, can be streamed via BFI Player from 20-29 March.
“BFI Flare is a very special and long standing festival with a loyal and dedicated following so when the decision was made to cancel the ‘live’ festival the team knew that they wanted to share some elements of BFI Flare digitally,” Tricia Tuttle, BFI’s Director of Festivals said, “to celebrate the spirit of BFI Flare and the incredible range of LGBTIQ+ stories and talented filmmakers being told in the UK and internationally and to bring some of the Flare sparkle online and into viewers’ living room.”
Furthermore, shorts films from BFI Flare Five Films For Freedom will be made available to watch for 10 days from 20 March, along with selections from previous BFI Flare Festivals. Aside from movies and shorts, there’ll also be live Q&As with filmmakers.
