The British Film Institute is one of the most important organizations for filming at the UK. Recently, it has selected Red Bee Media to provide audio description and captioning for two major film festivals in 2021. Particularly, the festivals are 2021 BFI Flare Festival and BFI London Film Festival.

BFI Flare is the UK’s longest-running film event exclusively dedicated to LGBTIQ+ content, and the London Film Festival is the UK’s leading international film festival.

Red Bee has been selected by the BFI because of their experience with complex and specialized feature film content, including sensitive subject matter.

Red Bee has worked with the BFI previously, delivering audio description and captioning for the BFI collection Unlimited: Disability on Screen, which examined the portrayal of disability in British film and television across the last century.

“The content at Flare and the BFI London Film Festival is extremely wide-ranging and requires a unique expertise to match the Audio Description and Captions with the visual and audio narrative,” said Olivia Howe, BFI Festivals Producer, British Film Institute. “With topics ranging from light-hearted to documentary to drama this is no easy task. Finding one company able to handle this diverse range of film-making and genre is hard, but Red Bee has proven themselves as the one-stop resource in this area.”

“Audio description and captioning are unique types of storytelling,” said Louise Seddon, Head of Global Access Services Operations for Red Bee Media. “You’re crafting a parallel story which makes the larger narrative accessible to all audiences. With more events streaming online and audiences now accustomed to viewing content on multiple platforms and devices, brands and their followers expect the same level of accessibility as they would on linear broadcasts.”