Cate Blanchett and Shahrbanoo Sadat discuss creative freedom for displaced filmmakers

A new BFI London Film Festival interview with Cate Blanchett and Shahrbanoo Sadat explores how the Displacement Film Fund gives filmmakers room to experiment. Blanchett describes support for experienced directors whose careers have been affected by displacement, as well as filmmakers already working with those experiences, and the growing network formed by the first cohort.

A new BFI London Film Festival interview with Cate Blanchett and Shahrbanoo Sadat explores how the Displacement Film Fund gives filmmakers room to experiment. Blanchett describes support for experienced directors whose careers have been affected by displacement, as well as filmmakers already working with those

experiences, and the growing network formed by the first cohort. Sadat explains that Super Afghan Gym grew from her search for a place to train in Kabul and her encounters with women using a neighbourhood gym. She contrasts the short’s fixed budget and one-year process with an earlier project that took six years. The

interview accompanies the first five funded shorts’ UK debut at London Film Festival, extending the previously announced programme with the filmmakers’ account of its creative purpose. Read the official source. Image: Displacement Film Fund / Super Afghan Gym filmmakers; official film still supplied through BFI.

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