Ears at the ready. BIFA is back with a new limited podcast series, in partnership with Little White Lies. The show, hosted by Leila Latif and Karis Aldridge, is all about celebrating the past, present and future of independent British cinema. Specifically, we’re looking back over the last 25 years of British film to coincide with BIFA’s 25th anniversary. Each episode, we’ll be asking a special guest from the world of British film to pick a film from the BIFA archives to discuss – and we’ll also learn about their own career in film.
In the first episode, we sit down with award-winning actor, writer and director Samantha Morton, recipient of BIFA’s 2022 Richard Harris Award, which recognises an Outstanding Contribution by an Actor. She tells us all about breaking into the industry, and why she loves Ken Loach’s stirring social drama from 1994, Ladybird Ladybird.
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Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them.
Leila Latif is a film critic and broadcaster who hosts Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies podcast and is a Contributing Editor and columnist at Total Film. She is a tv critic The Guardian and a regular at Indiewire, Sight & Sound, The BBC, and many others. She grew up in Khartoum Sudan but now lives in London with her husband, two children and a prized Blu-Ray of Ganja and Hess.
Karis Aldridge is freelancer and podcast host, working across film sales, distribution and marketing. She’s worked for established UK companies including Goldcrest and HanWay Films, and participated in the Creative England Producing Course supporting upcoming UK producers. In 2020 she launched her own podcast The UncerTwenties, which was nominated in the best D&I category. In 2022, Karis joined BIFA as a (Youth) Advisory Board Committee Member.
