Describing musical documentary as the “backbone” of the festival, Christian says their number one short-term goal is to broaden their wingspan, creating a global network of Beefeater In-Edits by establishing links with other countries (if all goes to plan, adding Mexico and Argentina to Brazil, Chile and Germany) as well as “plotting out” an online project for increased online circulation. This comes after last year’s successful collaboration with Filmin where much of the festival content was distributed online. Christian explains “the bottom line is to extend the radius of exposure above and beyond the realm of the few days in Barcelona.” “Being in the middle of two worlds” of music and film has not, he says, been plain sailing, but he maintains unerring faith this gap is being bridged with the “integration of music documentary into music as a whole” and notes traditional film festivals are starting to acknowledge the boom in music documentary.

It is unsurprising Christian signs off by referring to his taste for “vintage flavor” filmmaking. Beefeater In-Edit is grounded in an unmistakable rock ’n’ roll sensibility. Homage is paid this year to one-man film crew Murray Lerner (past tribute alumni include the Maysles brothers and D.A. Pennebaker) whose celluloid elegy to the Isle of Wight festival, Message to Love, is an anthology of the mythical likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Miles Davis and Leonard Cohen.

Oct 27 – Nov 6

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