A Roundup of the London Film Festival 2024

Independent Film Podcast Interviews

The relaunch of the Directors Notes Podcast is a multi-faceted episode with a variety of voices where we bring you a roundup of our activity from the 2024 BFI London Film Festival. I dove into the proverbial trenches of the festival, immersing myself in as many films as possible and catching up with filmmakers both old and new to the site as I trod the well trodden paths between Picturehouse Central, BFI Southbank and other festival venues.

Featured below is my chat with Dr. Dario Llinares from The Cinematologists, longtime friends of DN and a much loved stronghold in the film discussion podcast landscape – you should definitely sign up to their Patreon. We follow that with an interview with directing duo Daisy-May Hudson and Sophie Compton about their LFF feature documentary Holloway which premiered at the festival this year and provides a canvas for six women to return to Holloway Prison to reclaim their stories before it’s demolished. I was able to snatch literal minutes with DN alum Lorcan Finnegan in which we discussed the joyous madness brought to the screen by Nicholas Cage in his new film The Surfer and spoke to Sasha Nathwani about his BIFA Longlisted feature debut Last Swim – an energetic, music filled coming-of-age drama about of a group of young school leavers on the cusp of adulthood. And finally, this episode is rounded off by a chat with final year MetFilm School student Jesse Williams who tells us all about their favourite picks of the festival and some of the talks and networking sessions they attended.

Be sure to subscribe to the Directors Notes podcast in your podcast app of choice and keep an eye out over the coming weeks for our full length in depth interviews with more of the LFF directors we caught up with during the festival.