BAFTA-winning writer/director Amma Asante joins Anna Smith and Wendy Lloyd, film critic and reviewer for the British Psychological Society magazine – and Angie Errigo, film critic, broadcaster and contributing editor of Empire magazine, for a special episode in front of an audience at The AllBright Club Mayfair.
Asante talks about her new film, Where Hands Touch (2019), as well as her career, inspirations and being a film director in the age of Time’s Up.
Films reviewed include Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Woman At War (2019); while the panel discuss research conducted by Wendy Lloyd around critical responses to the sexual violence in Red Sparrow (2018).
Films put to the Bechdel Test range from Claire Denis’ High Life (2019) to Dragged Across Concrete (2018), while audience questions bring out fascinating issues around gender, film and bias.
Wendy Lloyd 
Angie Errigo 
Amma Asante