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Listmania comes to the Times BFI London Film Festival

Listmania! A Celebration of Movie Top Tens, one of the many FREE events at this year’s The Times BFI London Film Festival, promises to be an entertaining evening of movie madness and list frenzy.

In celebration of the Faber and Faber book Ten Bad Dates with De Niro, the festival is inviting people to submit a Top Ten film list according to their own creative criterion. Do so and be in with a chance to become one of ten lucky list-makers invited to present your selection onstage in competition at the Festival (on Sunday, 21 October, 19.00 at the BFI Southbank). The winner will receive a superb package of must-have volumes from the Faber film book library, and all selected participants will receive a copy of Ten Bad Dates. The panel of list-making and list-evaluating judges includes Richard Kelly, novelist and editor of Faber film books, including Ten Bad Dates with De Niro; Ryan Gilbery, film critic of the New Statesman; novelist Matt Thorne (Eight Minutes Idle, Cherry); and author and film critic Anne Billson (Suckers, Stiff Lips). The Submission deadline is 5th October.

DFG is considering submitting a list of the top ten documentaries that we know we should watch but we just haven't got around to, such as the full nine hours of Shoah.

Also this week: public booking for the festival opens on Saturday 29th September. For a run down on the documentary highlights of the festival, see last week's news.
 
Tickets for the above event can be booked online at www.lff.org.uk or from the Festival Box Office on 020 7928 3232.

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The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival hosts London’s first ever Production Finance Market, which will take place during the festival from 22-23 October. Focusing on new private forms of investment, film finance and new distribution avenues, it is one of the many events in the Festival’s expanded industry calendar. 120 international and UK financiers and established producers will participate in more than 400 face-to-face matched meetings, including 11 emerging producers who have been selected to pitch their projects and attend training seminars at the market.

For full details of the industry events taking place, see www.lff.org.uk/industry

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