SohoLIFF 2025

Meet Maxine Booth, our newly acquired official press partner for SohoLIFF. Every red carpet should be graced with her presence and poise… and now every SohoLIFF you will see her interviewing everyone involved in the production.  She digs deep and parties hard to get the best out of everyone she talks to.

She captures the essence and the vibes while reporting the stories behind the stories, and we’re thrilled to be stepping out with the glamourous lady, but as she sits down with festival founder Liz, we’re thrown a few surprises of our own as we discover the other sides of Ms Maxine.  Take a look … at the gal behind the glam.

Howard J Ford has been there, seen it, done that and flown halfway around the world in the process too.  He’s a film producer, writer, director and in early 2024 finished his 11^th feature film.  It seems nothing can stop him.  During the pandemic, he gathered his tools together and ventured out to make a film flying solo becoming camera, sound, producer, director and more!

He’s never on a break, but we were lucky enough to have him pop into the studios to share some of the top tips that help keep him going. With so much experience under his belt, you simply need to listen in.

What is an intimacy coordinator, what do they do, how do you land a job like that and who needs one? David Thackeray joins us in the studio to talk through the ins and outs of this fairly new, but crucial role to supportive filmmaking that can only bring the best out of your artists.

From boundaries, to red zones, consent to walking young actors through their first intimate on set, David shares some of the challenges and successes of the sensitive approach to supporting actors at every step of the production.