Getting the data
All the data on the site is pulled from the Leeds International Film Festival website or from their published guides and catalogues. This is a mixture of good old fashioned web-scraping, some PDF text extraction scripts and some AI image recognition and bulk formatting.
Building the site
The site is built in Hugo, from scratch. You can view the source on GitHub (see link in footer!). It is a jumble of markdown, json, toml and templates that compiles down to pure HTML + CSS. Where at all possible there is no JS in this site at all. It should be fast, light and easy to read.
Hosting the site
TBC but probably a Cloudflare Pages project