Tricia Tuttle will step down as BFI Festivals Director following this 12 months’s London Movie Pageant, the BFI introduced at the moment. She’s going to stay in publish by means of to early 2023 whereas the BFI recruits a alternative.
Tuttle has been with the BFI for a decade. For the previous 5 years, she has led the BFI London Movie Pageant and BFI Flare, the group’s LGBTQIA+ movie pageant. She was beforehand Deputy Head of Festivals from 2013-17.
“I’ve cherished every thing about my time on the BFI and because the Director of our Festivals,” Tuttle mentioned.
“It’s been a deep and real privilege to guide BFI London Movie Pageant and BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Movie Pageant, and to be a senior chief in an organisation that has formed me as a passionate movie fan and knowledgeable working in movie. I took the function understanding that I imagine in cultural renewal. I got here in to make an influence rapidly, with an goal to open up our festivals to extra folks after which move the baton. And I couldn’t be extra pleased with what we have now achieved in these 5 years, particularly given the completely wild challenges we have now confronted! I’m leaving on a excessive and with a lot love for the folks and the work of the organisation.”
The BFI mentioned Tuttle has led the physique’s festivals crew with “vitality, resilience and creativity,” and praised her for the five-year technique she carried out for the London Movie Pageant, which it mentioned has grown LFF audiences by 76% since 2019 and established a brand new footprint for the pageant throughout the UK.
The assertion additionally highlighted Tuttle’s function in introducing collection programming to the London Movie Pageant with particular displays of HBO’s Succession and Hulu’s Dopesick.
BFI Chief Exec Ben Roberts added: ‘Tricia has been the driving drive behind the BFI London Movie Pageant’s transformation over the past 5 years and it couldn’t be extra very important and necessary than proper now. I wish to thank her for her artistic management in adapting the LFF and BFI Flare within the face of big exterior challenges, creating real UK-wide entry bodily and digitally, placing us on the worldwide stage, and naturally bringing audiences unimaginable movie experiences. Most significantly Tricia is a brilliant good, beneficiant, and collaborative chief and colleague. She leaves an unimaginable crew behind her, and we’ll rejoice her success at her remaining pageant this 12 months.”
Transferring from North Carolina in 1997 to finish a joint MA at BFI and Birkbeck, College of London in Movie and TV Research, Tuttle has had a assorted profession as a programmer, lecturer, author, and journalist. She beforehand had a five-year stint at BAFTA as a Movie Programme Supervisor and as an Occasion Producer at London’s The Script Manufacturing facility.