London Film Festival 2025

London Film Festival is a 12-day programme is jam-packed with the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling. This is your chance to delight in the undiscovered, as all feature films and series are being shown in the UK for the first (and sometimes the only) time.

The Art of VFX: Creating Worlds, Shaping Visions

14:30 - 15:30pm BST 9th October | Picturehouse Central

They bring dragons to life. They make lost cities reappear. They create robots with human expressions and make human beings look like androids. When they enhance physical elements in a scene, their work becomes less visible, and yet, it is there. Join us for this spotlight on the art and craft of visual effects, with award-winning creatives and producers driving innovation at some of the most prestigious VFX studios in the UK. We will look into how they collaborate with directors, producers and heads of department, and we will discuss the uses of VFX in the early stages of a project, to serve and enhance a filmmaker’s original vision.

Speakers:

Fiona Walkinshaw, CEO Film & Episodic, Framestore
Sara Bennett, VFX Supervisor and Co-founder, Milk
Ellen Walder, COO and Co-founder, beloFX
Arpita Venugopal, Head of FX, One Of Us

Host:

Ian Haydn Smith, Writer and Curator