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Writer-director and BFI Film Academy alumna Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Regan notices the empty spots in the modern British cinematic canon, wielding the magical realism of her narrative worlds to colour them in. Her young, daydreamy female protagonists – like Georgie from Scrapper (2023) – bring charm to their adversities. Her debut feature followed a 12-year-old latchkey kid as she attempts to make sense of her world and her place in it after her mother’s death and the sudden return of her father.

As part of the Our Screen Heritage lottery programme, one goal has been to develop a streamlined way to collect born-digital content. We set out to understand how the archive currently acquires this type of material, identify the challenges involved, and begin shaping a future service for colleagues that could run beyond the life of the project. We used a service design approach throughout.

The wide-ranging career of visual artist Olga Lehmann encompassed everything from wartime underground factory murals to Radio Times covers to portraits in oils of Barbara Stanwyck and Charlton Heston for the American soap opera The Colbys.

The first awards from the 2026 to 2029 BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund include multi-year awards for exhibitors, festivals, specialist audience organisations, as well as shorter-term activity, all demonstrating support for ambitious, audience-facing projects across the UK.

BFI Flare 2026 celebrated queer storytelling in all its global richness, with world premieres, landmark restorations and a powerful industry programme alongside the continued international reach of Five Films for Freedom.

This attractive little booklet was printed to commemorate the 100th programme screened by the Film Society, in February 1938. Its cover screams the modernist style of Edward McKnight Kauffer, the artist and graphic designer behind some of the world’s most beautiful posters, including 1930s London Underground designs, as well as the titles for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film The Lodger.

Up to £150,000 will be available per project from experienced UK producers and creative leads with a track record in immersive or related screen-based practice. 1 April 2026 In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats (2023) Today we announce a new Expanded Screen Fund, offering up to £150,000 for immersive works of fiction from experienced UK producers and creative leads.

BFI Southbank today announces programme details for a major two month season this summer celebrating the centenary of the birth of cinema’s most enduring film star. Marilyn Monroe: Self Made Star, curated by the BFI’s lead programmer Kim Sheehan, opens on 1 June, coinciding with Monroe’s 100th birthday, and runs throughout June and July, including a BFI Distribution rerelease of The Misfits.

It’s an offer you can’t refuse – a season dedicated to trash cinema. One highlight is the 1930s pearl-clutcher Reefer Madness, warning of the evils of addiction. That’s something Sherlock Holmes ignores when solving classic cases in our newly restored dramas, which complement more recent works, exclusive to subscribers, including Rose Byrne coming apart in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You… If you haven’t signed up yet, head to player.bfi.org.uk and get a 14-day free trial.

On Monday 2nd March, we ran our fifth and final Graveyard Shift event under the Our Screen Heritage project. This series of events was conceived as a way to bolster our copyright data by asking members of the public to source reliable data about when key filmmakers, directors, composers and writers – had died so we could enter that data in our systems. They have been wildly successful and exceeded our initial expectations. We can now say that after five events the results are in.