Harris & Wilson Headline BFI LFF Industry Forum
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- Pippa Harris and James Wilson are set to participate in separate spotlight conversations at the 70th BFI London Film Festival's Industry Forum, running October 7-18, 2026, with the discussion events held October 8-15.
- Harris, who co-founded Neal Street Productions with Sam Mendes, is currently filming four separate Beatles biopic films directed by Mendes and starring Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, and Harris Dickinson.
- Harris's credits include Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA winner Hamnet and 1917, plus TV hits Call the Midwife, Penny Dreadful, and Britannia, which she will draw on in her deep-dive conversation.
- Wilson, a 30-plus-year indie producer, will discuss his collaborations with Jonathan Glazer on Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest and Under the Skin, Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, and Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab.
- Wilson previously served as a production executive at Fox Searchlight and Film4 on Sexy Beast and Dancer in the Dark before founding JW Films, a career arc the LFF conversation will trace.
- BFI LFF Director Kristy Matheson said the industry programme intentionally spotlights producers this year, calling Harris and Wilson 'two esteemed producers whose unique creative careers have given us some of the most memorable and critically acclaimed films of recent years.'
Why it matters: The BFI LFF is using its 70th-edition industry programme to make a deliberate case for the producer's craft, giving two of the UK's most commercially successful and Oscar-decorated producers — one mid-stream on a four-film Beatles project — a platform to discuss development and creative collaboration with hundreds of industry colleagues during the October 8-15 Forum window.
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