HippFest at Home online event: “Alma Reville: In the Shadow of Hitchcock?” January 28, 2025

HippFest’s online pre-festival presentations will include one dedicated to Alma Reville! It will premiere on January 28, 2025, at 19:00 (UTC+0). 

From the HippFest website:

“Alma Reville was Hitchcock’s secret weapon and no one could dispute that she was the key to his meteoric success. But what of her own film career? This illustrated presentation delves into the work of Alma Reville – both with and without her famous husband – from her beginnings in silent film and its evolution through the subsequent decades.

About the speaker:

Dr Josephine Botting is a Curator at the BFI National Archive. Her PhD thesis, Adrian Brunel and British Cinema of the 1920s, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.

Piano accompaniment: Mike Nolan

This online event is open to all and will premiere on the Falkirk Leisure & Culture YouTube channel at the advertised start time. You also have the option to book a ticket in advance, in order to have the relevant viewing link sent to you via email on the day of the premiere. Viewers tuning is at this time will be able to pose questions via the chat box if they wish, to which the speaker will respond live via text.

This illustrated presentation is available to online audiences free of charge, and will remain available as part of our library of online content.”

Alma Reville  and Alfred Hitchcock. Courtesy of the British Film Institute.