RPFF industry: Lecture "Producing, Process, New Cinema"

Lecture of Luke Moody, Head of the BFI Doc Society Fund (UK) in English. Free entrance.

New cinema commonly emerges at the fringes of the film industry, produced from a counter space despite lacking support, and structural undervaluation. In a series of short case studies this talk will discuss the navigation of absent support structures, the bridging of film and art funding and distribution, and the necessity of independent production companies as a scaffold to build around emerging cinema talents. How can we imagine institutions that would better serve new cinema? Where can support push forward radical filmmaking, without stifling their vision?

Luke W. Moody is a creative producer and curator. His productions have been supported by Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation and BFI, and have premiered at TIFF, New York Film Festival, and BFI London. He was a 2021 Sundance Producer’s Summit fellow and 2022 CPH:LAB participant. His experience at some of the UK’s leading films and arts institutions spans across curation, production and commissioning, often operating in the space between contemporary aesthetics and politics – art of the real and in the present.

RPFF 2025 industry sessions supported by National Film Centre of Latvia and Creative Europe MEDIA.