on the opening weekend of the new york film festival, it rained. ival—goers, many of them young people. young people have become the new lifeblood for film festivals in new york and london, and they definitely want to embrace the long—established artform of cinema. i think a lot of young people are engaging more with media that a lot of people think is kind of outdated, but... or i think there's kind of this insinuation that film is dying, and that's just not true. for the individuals involved in the running of the new york and london film festivals, it's good news that young people are coming to their venues. in our own surveys, we see that, over the course of the whole year, 60% of our audience members are under 45 and 50% are under 35. and so for that, those numbers are, like, terrific for us in terms ofjust even our year—round numbers, much less the new york film festival. similar increases are also being seen by the british film institute, which also runs the future film festival, the uk's largest film festival for young people. we are seeing o

we opened new york film festival, it was going to be two films in cannes.annes film festival but the pandemic, it was. but what was interesting about small axe was when it was on tv, it was amazing — so many, you know, it means like so many people called me, so many people — i'd never had a premiere like that, ever. so maybe you don't need the big screen? hold on. wait a minute. they laugh but with cinema, there's a collective viewing, i which is so amazing. it's like when you see a comedy and someone laughs in the crowd and it gets everyone laughing. there's a sort of — the oohs and the ahs of a cinema experience. imagine going on a roller—coaster ride and you're the only person on it. it's not... it's not thrilling at all. what if that's dying out, though? i interviewed not long ago the great french actor and film—maker mathieu kassovitz, and he said this... he said, in his opinion, "cinema is dying". and he said, the final thing that will kill it off is al. he said, "we are losing the fight of creativity. "ai will soon create way better than we can." we'