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What is your earliest moviegoing memory?
I don't remember a specific movie because I guess I was watching films pretty young. When I was a baby, my parents brought me to see The Lion King but I was less than a year old. The Lord Of The Rings was a big part of my childhood.

Where do you like to sit?
The middle seat in the middle row is technically the best place for sound. It's the most immersive but you can also have some perspective. I like seeing the frame edges, the big picture.

Popcorn: sweet, salted or both?
Salty. Never mixed.

What are your memories of watching Flow for the first time with an audience?
Cannes was the first time we watched it with an audience because we just finished the film days before the premiere and we had not test screened it. We had only watched it with the team, which is not the most objective audience. That was just a relief that people were laughing in the right places and not the wrong places. It was very emotional.

Is watching a film best experienced with others or solo? Discuss.
It depends on the type of a film. Sometimes I like to just go and see a film by myself and just focus on that. But it can also be very beneficial to an experience by watching it with a group of other people. I recently saw the Brazilian film I'm Still Here in a screening full of Brazilians. They were very emotional. I think it's a great film anyway, but being part of that audience and getting the sense of how important it is to them, I think, made it more impactful for me as well.

What is your most memorable moviegoing experience?
Watching Gravity for the first time. I was waiting for the whole 3D experience of it. I'm a big fan of Alfonso Cuarón. I think it had been many years since he'd made the film. I was really waiting for that film for years and years and it didn't let me down. I remember it just being very immersive. It blew my mind.

What is the next film you will see?
I have a long list of films I need to see. I've been very busy with the travelling I've been doing with Flow. So, I'm looking
forward to seeing so many films from filmmakers I've met on the awards circuit. I'm looking forward to seeing Nosferatu by Robert Eggers, I still haven't seen A Complete Unknown. I have a lot of catching up to do.

 Ian Freer

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