Film Festival

It’s been Film Festival season recently and in between teaching I’ve been busy cramming in films at the London Film Festival and even travelled to Romania to a documentary film festival during half term. Yes, teachers have fun too!
The London Film Festival runs every year in October and is open to the public; from the star studded opening and closing night galas with red carpet and stars a plenty, to little known films from around the world. Every year I try to see a variety of films from around the world, this year was particularly fantastic!
During the half term I travelled to a town called Sibiu in Romania (Transylvania to be exact!), to attend the Astra Documentary Film Festival. The festival featured documentaries made by filmmakers and anthropologists with an emphasis on people and their cultures. The festival had a fantastic buzz around it and many filmmakers were on-hand to answer questions from the audience and meet with them in the cafe afterwards.
As a film teacher and film enthusiast I enjoy attending these festivals and watching a variety of films, I would recommend it to everyone!