Becoming Frida Kahlo: In-Person Screening and Q&A

WFTV members are invited to this special screening of Becoming Frida Kahlo. Episode two of the upcoming three-part series will screened, followed by a Q&A with Executive Producer Nancy Bornat, BBC Commissioner Emma Cahusac, Director Louise Lockwood and Editor Esther Gimenez.

Thursday 16th March, 18:00

Courthouse Hotel, Soho, 19-21 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7HL

Event Schedule:

18:00: Arrivals and check-in

18:30: Screening begins (Epsiode two)

19:30: Q&A with Nancy Bornat, Emma Cahusac, Louise Lockwood and Esther Gimenez. Hosted by Rhianna Dhillon. 

20:00: Drinks and canapes

Show Synopsis:

Becoming Frida Kahlo, a striking new 3-part series by Rogan Scotland coming to BBC Two and iPlayer on 10th March, strips away the myths to reveal the real Frida – a passionate and brilliant artist living through extraordinary times. Featuring newly unearthed photography, rare archive footage and interviews with family members and leading experts, the series delves deep into Frida Kahlo’s world to reveal an artist driven by politics, power, fame, sex and identity. At the centre of it all is Frida’s epic love affair with fellow artist Diego Rivera that was to rule her life. This fiercely determined and independent woman was also driven and broken by love. Becoming Frida Kahlo sets the record straight on this global icon, taking viewers on an intimate and heart-breaking journey to reveal the raw ambition, talent and trauma that have made her the arts superstar she is today.

Louise Lockwood, Director:

Louise Lockwood is a Grierson, RTS and BAFTA Scotland winning documentary maker with over 20 years’ experience. A Fine Art graduate the subjects of her documentaries are diverse yet united by a distinct, creative vision. Her work has covered topics as varied as Quantum Physics, Philosophy, Curling, Cancer, Social History and many Arts subjects.

Louise has won multiple awards for several of her films; most recently on The National Theatre of Scotland’s Adam which she co-directed for screen, her intimate two-part observational documentary Fair Isle: Living On The Edge, and her acclaimed documentary Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives.

Emma Cahusac, BBC Commissioner:

Emma Cahusac has worked in factual television for 25 years making content for all the major UK channels as well as for US broadcasters.  Currently Commissioning Editor for BBC Factual across Arts, Music and Performance.  Subject areas range from the visual arts to literature, culture travelogues to ideas-based constructed narratives, classical dance to performance poets, theatre to pop music.  Recent commissions include Becoming Frida Kahlo, Stolen: Catching The Art Thieves, Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez, Extraordinary Portraits with Tinie Tempah, Write Around the World with Richard E Grant, Art That Made Us and the Skint monologues.

Esther Gimenez, Editor:

Esther is an award-winning film editor based in London. She edited the final episode of BAFTA award winning Uprising in 2021, also nominated at the RTS (Best Editing), Grierson and IDA (Best Documentary Series). Other highlights include Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation (BBC), 1971: The Year That Changed Everything (Apple TV), Subnormal: A British Scandal (BBC), Kingdom of Dreams (SKY) and more recently Becoming Frida Kahlo (BBC). Esther’s work has a strong focus on narrative and visual storytelling and a musical background which is central to her work.

Nancy Bornat, Executive Producer:

Nancy is a BAFTA winning documentary producer. She was an executive producer of the BBC’s BAFTA-winning Uprising (2021),  of the critically acclaimed BBC series The Yorkshire Ripper Files (2019) and The Shipman Files (2020). She was the factual producer of the BBC drama The Windermere Children and also executive produced the accompanying documentary The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words.

As well as these she was series producer of four series of the BBC's popular series Back in Time, including Back in Time for Brixton. Over 20 years, she has worked in history and arts programmes as well as documentaries, exploring a wide variety of subjects and stories.

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