Four Film4 titles have been selected to screen at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, including Closing Night Gala Free Fire, a high octane action thriller from director Ben Wheatley, who will also give a LFF Screen Talk.

Head of Film4 Daniel Battsek will host an onstage conversation with Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd as part of the LFF industry programme’s ‘Greenlighters’ strand, in which leading film executives discuss a film they love from the Festival programme with its director.

Channel 4’s On Screen Diversity Executive Ramy El-Bergamy will take part in a panel discussion at the LFF Black Star Symposium about the opportunities available to, and the obstacles faced by, black actors in the US and the UK.

Full details of Film4’s slate at the BFI London Film Festival:

AMERICAN HONEY

European Premiere - Special Presentation

Star (Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home runs away with a travelling sales crew that drives across the American mid-west selling magazine subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard partying, law-bending and young love.

Writer / Director Andrea Arnold

Cast Shia LaBeouf, Sasha Lane, Riley Keough

Producers Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa

Production Companies Parts & Labor, Pulse Films, Sales agent Protagonist Pictures

** Jury Prize winner at 2016 Cannes Film Festival; Focus Features release in UK on 14 October **

UNA

European Premiere – Official Competition

When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man’s workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life. Their confrontation will uncover buried memories and unspeakable desires. It will shake them both to the core.

Director Benedict Andrews

Cast Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed

Writer David Harrower, based on his own play BLACKBIRD

Producers Jean Doumanian, Patrick Daly, Maya Amsellem

Production Company & Sales agent WestEnd Films

TRESPASS AGAINST US

European Premiere - Thrill strand

Three generations of the Cutler family live as notorious outlaws in Britain’s richest countryside. They spend their time hunting, looting and tormenting the police. In the midst of it all, Chad (Michael Fassbender) finds himself torn between respect for his father (Brendan Gleeson) and a desire for a better life for his children. With the law cracking down on his clan, the decision might not be his to make... Music for the film is an original score from The Chemical Brothers.

Director Adam Smith

Cast Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Kinnear, Sean Harris,

Killian Scott

Writer Alastair Siddons, Producers Andrea Calderwood, Gail Egan, Alastair Siddons

Production Company Potboiler Productions, Sales agent Protagonist Pictures

FREE FIRE

European Premiere - Closing Night Gala

Massachusetts, late ‘70s. Justine (Brie Larson) has brokered a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) and a gang led by Vernon (Sharlto Copley) and Ord (Armie Hammer) who are selling them a stash of guns. But when shots are fired in the handover, a heart stopping game of survival ensues. Wheatley’s first US-set action picture is executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

Director Ben Wheatley

Cast Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Babou Ceesay, Enzo Cilenti, Sam Riley, Michael Smiley, Noah Taylor

Writers Amy Jump & Ben Wheatley, Producer Andrew Starke

Production Company Rook Films, Sales agent Protagonist Pictures

** STUDIOCANAL release in the UK on 31 March 2017 **

BFI LFF Screen Talk – Ben Wheatley

One of the most dynamic and original voices in contemporary British cinema, Ben Wheatley will give a Festival Screen Talk to discuss his career to date of six films (five of which were backed by Film4), encompassing off-kilter horror masterpiece Kill List, pitch black comedy Sightseers, medieval acid western A Field in England, 2015’s stylish JG Ballard adaptation High-Rise, and this year’s LFF Closing Night Gala FREE FIRE.

BFI LFF industry event - The Greenlighters: Daniel Battsek & William Oldroyd

As part of a series of conversations at Picturehouse Central in which leading film executives discuss a film at the Festival that they love (but have no connection with) with its director, Head of Film 4 Daniel Battsek will discuss Lady Macbeth with William Oldroyd. The talks give a unique insight into the kinds of stories exciting the people with the greenlight power, while giving us a glimpse into the creative processes of some of the world’s most remarkable new filmmakers.

BFI LFF Black Star Symposium – Discussion Panel

Channel 4’s On Screen Diversity Executive Ramy El-Bergamy will take part in a panel discussion at the LFF Black Star Symposium with David Oyelowo, Noel Clarke and Julie Dash about the opportunities available to, and the obstacles faced by, black actors in the US and the UK; the types of roles and the kinds of stories being told; the politics vs the reality of ‘colour-blind casting; and the differences between the film and TV sectors in the respective territories.

SCREENING / EVENT DETAILS AT BFI LFF:

BFI LFF Black Star Symposium – Discussion Panel including Ramy El-Bergamy

Thursday 6th Oct, 9.20am @ BFI Southbank

AMERICAN HONEY

Thursday 6th Oct, 2.15pm @ Picturehouse Central screen 1  Press & Industry

Friday 7th Oct, 9.15pm @ Odeon Leicester Square  European Premiere

Saturday 8th Oct, 8.00pm @ Hackney Picturehouse

Tuesday 11th Oct, 2.00pm @ Odeon Leicester Square

LFF industry - The Greenlighters: Daniel Battsek & William Oldroyd

Friday 7th Oct, 2.00pm @ Picturehouse Central

UNA

Saturday 8th Oct, 12.00pm @ Picturehouse Central screen 1  Press & Industry

Sunday 9th Oct, 8.45pm @ Embankment Garden Cinema  European Premiere

Monday 10th Oct, 2.15pm @ Embankment Garden Cinema

Thursday 13th Oct, 9.00pm @ Curzon Mayfair

TRESPASS AGAINST US

Thursday 13th Oct, 12.00pm @ Picturehouse Central screen 2  Press & Industry

Friday 14th Oct, 9.15pm @ Vue West End screen 5  European Premiere

Saturday 15th Oct, 2.45pm @ Vue West End screen 7

Sunday 16th Oct, 3.15pm @ Haymarket Cinema

FREE FIRE

Friday 14th Oct, 12.00pm @ Picturehouse Central screen 1  Press & Industry

Sunday 16th Oct, 7.00pm @ Odeon Leicester Square  Closing Night Gala

Sunday 16th Oct, 8.00pm @ Embankment Garden Cinema

LFF Screen Talk – Ben Wheatley

Saturday 15th Oct, 4.00pm @ NFT1

Other exciting projects coming soon from Film4’s slate include:

BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK (Director: Ang Lee)

Cast Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin

** Confirmed for World Premiere at New York Film Festival on October 14, prior to US release by Sony Pictures Entertainment on November 11 **

T2 (Danny Boyle)

Cast Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner

** Confirmed for release on 27 January, 2017 in the UK and 3 February, 2017 in the US, by Sony Pictures Entertainment **

Currently in post-production:

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES (John Cameron Mitchell)

JOURNEYMAN (Paddy Considine)

OLD BOYS (Toby MacDonald)

ROOM 915 (short, Katie Mitchell)

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Martin McDonagh)

DARK RIVER (Clio Barnard)

BEAST (Michael Pearce)

LEAN ON PETE (Andrew Haigh)

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Lynne Ramsay)

Currently in production:

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Future productions include:

MARY MAGDALENE (Garth Davis)

I AM NOT A WITCH (Rungano Nyoni)

AMERICAN ANIMALS (Bart Layton)

PETERLOO (Mike Leigh)

Other recent projects include:

HIGH-RISE (Ben Wheatley)

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR (Susanna White)

ROOM (Lenny Abrahamson)

CAROL (Todd Hayes)

AMY (Asif Kapadia)

45 YEARS (Andrew Haigh)

EX MACHINA (Alex Garland)

Film4 is Channel 4 Television’s feature film division, which develops and co-finances films and has an established track record for working with the most distinctive and innovative talent in UK and international filmmaking. Film4 has developed and/or co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years - Academy Award®-winners such as Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia’s Amy, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years and Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, in addition to critically-acclaimed award-winners such as Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Shane Meadows’ This is England, Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, Yann Demange’s 71, Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and David Mackenzie’s Starred Up.