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The 2023 BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its industry program, featuring a wide array of conversations and panel discussions with leading figures from across the international film and TV worlds.

Among those taking part in Lff Spotlight conversations are Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative office Jennifer Lee, who co-directed the Frozen films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Helen Gregory of See-Saw Films, behind films such as The Power of the Dog and TV shows including Heartstopper and Slow Horses, and Carole Barton, head of French sales company Charades.

Elsewhere, both AMPAS boss Bill Kramer and BAFTA head Jane Millichip will speak in conversation with BFI CEO Ben Roberts.

Among the panel discussions, participants will include writers, directors and creative talent such as Giancarlo Nasi, Emily Morgan, Mahalia Belo, Shaheen Baig, Leah Clarke, Naqqash Khalid, Nabhaan Rizwan, Mary Burke and Tasha Back.

The Hollywood Reporter is sponsoring a panel entitled “Fade In.

The Academy CEO and Bafta director will discuss ’academies, awards and the future of cinema’.

Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Bafta managing director Jane Millichip will participate in a conversation as part of the 67th BFI London Film Festival’s industry programme.

The talk is titled ‘Academies, awards and the future of cinema’ and will be hosted by BFI CEO Ben Roberts on October 5.

There will also be three Spotlight conversations with industry leaders: Jennifer Lee, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ chief creative officer and the co-writer and co-director of the Frozen films, will be in conversation with Tricia Tuttle, head...

Made as her graduate film from the Directing Fiction Ma at the National Film and Television School, Lisa Clarkson’s 45-minute short Muse is an 80s-set schoolroom drama about a bright, young photography student who gets pushed to the edge by his teacher’s seductive philosophies. Clarkson captures the unfolding of their tumultuous relationship through a gritty, filmic lens that mimics the art that they ponder. For me, it’s the film’s strongest element, how it melds form and story, doing what cinema is capable of doing and conveying a narrative through not just plot but through its fundamental tools. Dn is delighted to Premiere Muse on our pages today alongside an in-depth conversation with Clarkson on the short’s philosophical themes, its stunning 16mm cinematography, and the challenge of creating during a time of uncertainty.

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The festival takes place from March 2-13.

The 18th edition of the UK’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s US title The Outfit, and close with the UK premiere of Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’Or-winning Murina, when the festival runs as an in-person event from March 2-13.

The line-up includes 10 world premieres, four European premieres and 65 UK premieres.

Scroll down for the full list of world premieres

The Outfit will receive its world premiere as a gala screening in Berlin and is the directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.

The festival takes place from March 2-13.

The 18th edition of the UK’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s US title The Outfit, and close with the UK premiere of Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’Or-winning Murina, when the festival runs as an in-person event from March 2-13.

The line-up includes 10 world premieres, four European premieres and 65 UK premieres.

Scroll down for the full list of world premieres

The Outfit will receive its world premiere as a gala screening in Berlin and is the directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.