Interview: Amanda Berry of BAFTA

by Ambrose Heron on February 7, 2008

The Orange British Academy Film AwardsThe Orange British Academy Film Awards - also known as the BAFTAs - take place this Sunday and it is the showpiece event of the UK film calendar.

Amanda Berry is the chief executive of BAFTA and I recently spoke to her about the awards event, the changes she has made since the late 90s, how it fits in to the awards season, how the nominations work, what the BAFTA organisation does around the year and the films up for nomination.

Listen to the interview here:

To download this as a podcast via iTunes just click the image below:

UK viewers can see the awards show on BBC1 this Sunday at 9pm and for more information just visit their official website at www.bafta.org/awards

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> The full BAFTA nominations for this year
> Watch some of the highlights from last year at BAFTA’s site

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