Red Carpet News TV spoke to festival organizers and proud filmmakers at the official launch event yesterday for this year’s 57th BFI London Film festival 2013. Boasting a dazzling array of attending talent and over 235 feature films this year promises to be a very special line up indeed.

This year’s revitalized and revamped film festival also boasts an expanded range of venues, dynamic new categories and injects a fresh element of competition with an increasingly prestigious awards ceremony.

This year’s Opening Gala is Captain Philips, staring Tom Hanks and directed by Paul Greengrass. It is the first time since 2006 the festival has been opened by a British Director. Paul Greengrass was quick to share his delight with us at the launch and told us a little about what motivated him to bring the extraordinary true story of Captain Philips to the big screen.

Festival Director Clare Stewart also talked us through the line up of Gala screenings at this year’s festival:

BFI Chief Executive Amanda Nevill also shared her personal excitement for this year’s festival:

We also spoke to a number of the delighted filmmakers with features in this year’s festival, with much anticipated releases such as Gone Too Far, Blackwood, Hello Carter, Sixteen and Leave To Remain.

Interviews Below:

Finally we spoke to entrants in this yea’s short film category. Interviews below with the director of Out Of Darkness, which stars Tom Hiddleston and the director of Up On The Roof which stars Game of Thrones Maisie Williams.