Tricia Tuttle To Step Down As BFI Festivals Director After 2022 London Film Festival
deadline.comTricia Tuttle will step down as BFI Festivals Director following this year’s London Film Festival, the BFI announced today.
She will remain in post through to early 2023 while the BFI recruits a replacement. Tuttle has been with the BFI for a decade.
For the past five years, she has led the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare, the organization’s LGBTQIA+ film festival. She was previously Deputy Head of Festivals from 2013-17. “I have loved everything about my time at the BFI and as the Director of our Festivals,” Tuttle said. “It’s been a deep and genuine privilege to lead BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, and to be a senior leader in an organisation that has shaped me as a passionate film fan and a professional working in film.
I took the role knowing that I believe in cultural renewal. I came in to make an impact quickly, with an aim to open up our festivals to more people and then pass the baton.
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