BFI Flare announce interview series with filmmakers behind Fire Island, Brokeback Mountain and more

A still from Marco Berger’s The Astronaut Lovers (Image: Matchbox Films)

BFI Flare has today announced the return of The Makers, an event series which will see a number of prominent LGBTQ+ filmmakers interviewed about their work in front of a live audience.

The Makers is part of the upcoming 39th edition of BFI Flare, Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ film festival, which runs from 19 – 30 March. This year’s line-up includes conversations with Andrew Ahn and James Schamus, Onir, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, and Marco Berger.

Ahn will be known to most as the director of the hit 2023 gay romcom Fire Island starring Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang. Ahn recently reunited with Yang for the upcoming dramedy The Wedding Banquet, also starring Lily Gladstone, which is set to open the

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