At a reception at the Arcade Berwyn Rowlands, Iris director told Scene : “It’s been a hard 18 months with cinemas largely closed, but the silver lining of the lockdowns has been the growth of online content and virtual audiences”. He revealed a huge increase to 80,000 of the virtual audience numbers for the Festival’s 2020 online event .All4 hasn’t yet announced audience figures but Hove-based Tim Highsted, senior editor, Acquired Feature Films at the channel told Scene:” this is the first year of a 3- year deal with Iris and we look forward to our future collaboration.