BFI Festival Director Tricia Tuttle joins the National Film and Television School

Tricia Tuttle, the outgoing director of BFI festivals, has joined the National Film and Television School as assistant director of the directing course.

Tuttle’s role at the NFTS will be part-time until she retires from BFI following BFI Flare, the organisation’s LGBTQIA+ film festival, in March, after which she will attend the film school full-time.

Tuttle resigned as festival director from the BFI in October 2021 after ten years with the organisation. She has directed the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare for the past five years. Last year, the London Film Festival, directed by Tuttle, screened 164 feature films, including 23 film and television premieres, highlighted by the world premiere of Guillermo Del Toros Pinocchio and the international premiere of she saidwith Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.

Tuttle was previously Assistant Festival Director from 2013 to 2017 and spent five years at BAFTA as a Film Program Manager and as an Events Producer at The Script Factory in London. Tuttle’s successor at the BFI is yet to be announced.

The NFTS is one of the UK’s leading alumni film schools Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them director David Yates, Wallace and Gromit Creator Nick Park and suffragettes Director Sarah Gavron. Past and current NFTS instructors include Alex Garland (MEN), Brian Gilbert (Wanted), Lesley Manning (ghost clock) and Ian Sellar (Venus Peter). In 2018 the school won the BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.

Tuttle’s role at the NFCS currently runs until September.