Record Intake
The European Film Academy has added a record 709 new members in its 2024 annual intake. New members include Cate Blanchett (Australia/U.K.), Jovan Marjanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Maria Bakalova (Bulgaria), Juraj Lerotić (Croatia), Anna Hints (Estonia), Ariane Toscan du Plantier (France), Stéphan Castang (France), David Thion (France), Marie-Ange Luciani (France), Latifa Saïd (France), Rebecca Houzel (France), Thomas Hakim (France), Sami Mustafa (France/Kosovo), Mohamed Siam (France), Hanna Bergholm (Finland), Hamze Bytyçi (Germany) and Christian M. Goldbeck (Germany).
The intake also includes Behrooz Karamizade (Germany), Jerry Hoffmann (Germany), Aylin Tezel (Germany), Jasmin Tabatabai (Germany), Sofia Exarchou (Greece), Phedon Papamichael (Greece), Kate McCullough (Ireland), Matteo Garrone (Italy), Enzo d’Alò (Italy), Francesco Montagner (Italy), Uljana Kim (Lithuania), Cindy Jansen (Netherlands), Fatih Rağbet (Netherlands), Cristi Puiu (Romania), Anca Puiu (Romania), Elene Naveriani (Switzerland), Selahattin Paşalı (Turkey), Molly Manning Walker (U.K.), Melanie Hoyes (U.K.), Lizzie Francke (U.K.), Charles Newland (UK), Jad Salfiti (U.
The European Film Academy has added a record 709 new members in its 2024 annual intake. New members include Cate Blanchett (Australia/U.K.), Jovan Marjanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Maria Bakalova (Bulgaria), Juraj Lerotić (Croatia), Anna Hints (Estonia), Ariane Toscan du Plantier (France), Stéphan Castang (France), David Thion (France), Marie-Ange Luciani (France), Latifa Saïd (France), Rebecca Houzel (France), Thomas Hakim (France), Sami Mustafa (France/Kosovo), Mohamed Siam (France), Hanna Bergholm (Finland), Hamze Bytyçi (Germany) and Christian M. Goldbeck (Germany).
The intake also includes Behrooz Karamizade (Germany), Jerry Hoffmann (Germany), Aylin Tezel (Germany), Jasmin Tabatabai (Germany), Sofia Exarchou (Greece), Phedon Papamichael (Greece), Kate McCullough (Ireland), Matteo Garrone (Italy), Enzo d’Alò (Italy), Francesco Montagner (Italy), Uljana Kim (Lithuania), Cindy Jansen (Netherlands), Fatih Rağbet (Netherlands), Cristi Puiu (Romania), Anca Puiu (Romania), Elene Naveriani (Switzerland), Selahattin Paşalı (Turkey), Molly Manning Walker (U.K.), Melanie Hoyes (U.K.), Lizzie Francke (U.K.), Charles Newland (UK), Jad Salfiti (U.
- 5/9/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) has secured £10m in government support to expand its Beaconsfield Studios in Buckinghamshire.
The £20m expansion, subject to business case, will extend the Beaconsfield base by 25,000 sq. ft.
The additional space will allow for the introduction of new courses in AI, games, virtual and real-time production as well as a new training centre for its apprenticeship programmes and 12 fully accessible student accommodation bedrooms to be built on site.
Sophie Turner Laing, Nfts chair, said: “The School’s success in securing this vital funding will propel it towards a future of innovation and growth.
The £20m expansion, subject to business case, will extend the Beaconsfield base by 25,000 sq. ft.
The additional space will allow for the introduction of new courses in AI, games, virtual and real-time production as well as a new training centre for its apprenticeship programmes and 12 fully accessible student accommodation bedrooms to be built on site.
Sophie Turner Laing, Nfts chair, said: “The School’s success in securing this vital funding will propel it towards a future of innovation and growth.
- 3/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
The British Film Institute (BFI) and British Council have teamed up for the Travel Grant Fund, to support UK independent filmmakers, producers and extended reality (Xr) creatives to attend international industry events around the world, including festivals, markets and development labs.
It expands upon the current travel grant support provided by the two organisations, which backed short films and virtual reality work for festivals and lab grants for project or professional development. The new fund now supports feature-length work and a broader range of Xr/immersive works, in addition to short films, attending festivals and wider events.
The fund, jointly...
It expands upon the current travel grant support provided by the two organisations, which backed short films and virtual reality work for festivals and lab grants for project or professional development. The new fund now supports feature-length work and a broader range of Xr/immersive works, in addition to short films, attending festivals and wider events.
The fund, jointly...
- 2/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
Former senior BFI executive Lizzie Francke will replace Tricia Tuttle as head of the directing fiction department at the UK’s National Film and Television School.
Francke will take the helm from April 1, when Tuttle officially begins her new role as director of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Formerly editor-at-large at the then-BFI Film Fund, Francke helped develop and produce many notable films including Aftersun, Triangle Of Sadness and Rye Lane. She departed the organisation in March last year along with fellow executives Fiona Morham and Natascha Wharton.
Her extensive career also includes a stint as artistic director of...
Francke will take the helm from April 1, when Tuttle officially begins her new role as director of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Formerly editor-at-large at the then-BFI Film Fund, Francke helped develop and produce many notable films including Aftersun, Triangle Of Sadness and Rye Lane. She departed the organisation in March last year along with fellow executives Fiona Morham and Natascha Wharton.
Her extensive career also includes a stint as artistic director of...
- 2/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance queer drama “Sebastian,” directed by up-and-coming Finnish-British director Mikko Mäkelä, has been bought by Kino Lorber for U.S. distribution, along with a string of international buyers.
Represented in international markets by LevelK, the film made its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“Sebastian” follows Max (Ruaridh Mollica), a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories, and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write finally seems within reach. But Max increasingly struggles to remain in control of his double-life, leading him to reckon with whether Sebastian is merely a...
Represented in international markets by LevelK, the film made its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“Sebastian” follows Max (Ruaridh Mollica), a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories, and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write finally seems within reach. But Max increasingly struggles to remain in control of his double-life, leading him to reckon with whether Sebastian is merely a...
- 2/27/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
UK outfit Bankside has boarded world sales on Brides, the debut feature from acclaimed theatre director and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Nadia Fall, as production wraps.
The film, which shot in Wales, Turkey and Italy, stars newcomer Ebada Hassan and Layla’s Safiyya Ingar as two teenage girls in 2015, in search of freedom, friendship and belonging, who run away from their troubled lives in a seaside town with a misguided plan of travelling to Syria.
Nicky Bentham produces through London-based Neon Films, alongside Marica Stocchi of Rome-based Rosamont. Catryn Ramasut and Alice Lusher of Cardiff’s ie ie productions are co-producers.
The film, which shot in Wales, Turkey and Italy, stars newcomer Ebada Hassan and Layla’s Safiyya Ingar as two teenage girls in 2015, in search of freedom, friendship and belonging, who run away from their troubled lives in a seaside town with a misguided plan of travelling to Syria.
Nicky Bentham produces through London-based Neon Films, alongside Marica Stocchi of Rome-based Rosamont. Catryn Ramasut and Alice Lusher of Cardiff’s ie ie productions are co-producers.
- 2/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
More than 13 years after government minister Jeremy Hunt stood up in Parliament to announce the abolition of the UK Film Council (UKFC), the body held its first reunion.
Around 80 former staff members – who worked for the organisation at some point over its existence from creation by Tony Blair’s Labour government in 2000 to final unwinding in 2011 – came together at London’s Century Club on Wednesday evening (January 31).
A speech from John Woodward – who served as UKFC chief executive throughout its existence – gave the event its focal point. While wishing to avoid “nostalgia”, which he defined as a classical Greek word...
Around 80 former staff members – who worked for the organisation at some point over its existence from creation by Tony Blair’s Labour government in 2000 to final unwinding in 2011 – came together at London’s Century Club on Wednesday evening (January 31).
A speech from John Woodward – who served as UKFC chief executive throughout its existence – gave the event its focal point. While wishing to avoid “nostalgia”, which he defined as a classical Greek word...
- 2/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
McCance died aged 53 on December 19 last year, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.
Colleagues and friends have paid tribute to “free spirit” and “brilliant role model”, Northern Ireland-born, Sweden-based film and TV writer and executive producer Ruth McCance, who has died aged 53 from cancer.
McCance was diagnosed in November of last year with stomach cancer, and died just five weeks later.
During her career she worked on films including Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love, Soren-Kragh Jakobson’s Skagerrak and Garth Jennings’s Son Of Rambow.
McCance grew up in Belfast. Her mother was a...
Colleagues and friends have paid tribute to “free spirit” and “brilliant role model”, Northern Ireland-born, Sweden-based film and TV writer and executive producer Ruth McCance, who has died aged 53 from cancer.
McCance was diagnosed in November of last year with stomach cancer, and died just five weeks later.
During her career she worked on films including Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love, Soren-Kragh Jakobson’s Skagerrak and Garth Jennings’s Son Of Rambow.
McCance grew up in Belfast. Her mother was a...
- 1/15/2024
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The queer drama is directed by UK-Finnish director Mikko Makela.
LevelK has boarded international sales rights to UK feature Sebastian ahead of its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance Film Festival this month.
The film is the second feature from UK-Finnish director Mikko Makela. It follows a freelance writer rising through London’s cultural world who finds exhilaration at night as a sex worker under the pseudonym Sebastian.
Ruaridh Mollica leads the cast, alongside Screen Rising Stars Scotland talent Hiftu Quasem and Jonathan Hyde.
September Films will distribute the film in the Netherlands, with Aurora handling distribution for Finland.
LevelK has boarded international sales rights to UK feature Sebastian ahead of its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance Film Festival this month.
The film is the second feature from UK-Finnish director Mikko Makela. It follows a freelance writer rising through London’s cultural world who finds exhilaration at night as a sex worker under the pseudonym Sebastian.
Ruaridh Mollica leads the cast, alongside Screen Rising Stars Scotland talent Hiftu Quasem and Jonathan Hyde.
September Films will distribute the film in the Netherlands, with Aurora handling distribution for Finland.
- 1/15/2024
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Ama Ampadu, Louise Ortega, Aoife Hayes, Phoebe Sutherland and Charley Fox all have expanded their remits within the fund.
Studiocanal’s Anna Hintzen has joined the British Film Institute (BFI) as senior production executive at the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund.
Hintzen will have oversight of all aspects of production on BFI-backed projects. She will initially engage with projects at application stage to advise on their viability, ensuring they are appropriately budgeted and scheduled, and will support filmmaking teams both practically and creatively through pre-production, shooting and post to help them maximise budgets and use the funding responsibly.
“We are...
Studiocanal’s Anna Hintzen has joined the British Film Institute (BFI) as senior production executive at the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund.
Hintzen will have oversight of all aspects of production on BFI-backed projects. She will initially engage with projects at application stage to advise on their viability, ensuring they are appropriately budgeted and scheduled, and will support filmmaking teams both practically and creatively through pre-production, shooting and post to help them maximise budgets and use the funding responsibly.
“We are...
- 11/20/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Here’s your first teaser trailer for anticipated Toronto Film Festival world premiere The End We Start From, starring Emmy and BAFTA winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) as a woman trying to get home with her baby amid an environmental disaster.
We can also reveal a U.S. release date for the movie of December 8th, 2023. Number of screens is currently under discussion with expectation that it will fall somewhere between wide and limited.
As we previously revealed, Paramount’s Republic Pictures acquired North American rights to the dystopian drama during Cannes. Below you can also see a first poster for the movie.
Comer stars as a woman who, along with her newborn child, must try to find her way home amid an environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees their young family torn apart in the chaos. The film debuts at TIFF tomorrow [Sunday 10th].
Mahalia Belo...
We can also reveal a U.S. release date for the movie of December 8th, 2023. Number of screens is currently under discussion with expectation that it will fall somewhere between wide and limited.
As we previously revealed, Paramount’s Republic Pictures acquired North American rights to the dystopian drama during Cannes. Below you can also see a first poster for the movie.
Comer stars as a woman who, along with her newborn child, must try to find her way home amid an environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees their young family torn apart in the chaos. The film debuts at TIFF tomorrow [Sunday 10th].
Mahalia Belo...
- 9/9/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The importance of laughter during times of loss is often undervalued. With her feature directorial debut, Janis Pugh showcases the significance of friendship and humor when grief strikes. A musical rom-com drama, “Chuck Chuck Baby” underscores the power of female companionship through the ups and downs of life.
Premiering as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s LGBTQ Stories section and also headed to Toronto Film Festival, “Chuck Chuck Baby” follows the life of Helen (Louise Brealey), a chicken factory worker in a small industrial town in northern Wales, whose life is mired in quotidian details, packaging chickens and caring for her ailing mother-figure Gwen. Helen’s life is turned upside down, however, with the unexpected arrival of her former high school love Joanne (Annabel Scholey), who inspires a renewed appreciation in Helen of her hometown, her life and herself. Yet, the couple’s reunion is quickly muddled. The...
Premiering as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s LGBTQ Stories section and also headed to Toronto Film Festival, “Chuck Chuck Baby” follows the life of Helen (Louise Brealey), a chicken factory worker in a small industrial town in northern Wales, whose life is mired in quotidian details, packaging chickens and caring for her ailing mother-figure Gwen. Helen’s life is turned upside down, however, with the unexpected arrival of her former high school love Joanne (Annabel Scholey), who inspires a renewed appreciation in Helen of her hometown, her life and herself. Yet, the couple’s reunion is quickly muddled. The...
- 8/17/2023
- by Shayeza Walid
- Variety Film + TV
”We are forming a new-look team to deliver the ambitious strategy,” said Filmmaking Fund director Mia Bays.
The British Film Institute (BFI) has appointed Vicki Brown as its senior executive for sales and distribution for the BFI Filmmaking Fund.
Brown joins from London and New York-based sales firm Together Films, where she was head of acquisitions, sales and distribution. She was also previously director of international sales at UK sales outfit Altitude Film Sales. She will be responsible for ensuring features awarded BFI National Lottery production funding are successfully delivered to the marketplace and to UK and international audiences.
This...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has appointed Vicki Brown as its senior executive for sales and distribution for the BFI Filmmaking Fund.
Brown joins from London and New York-based sales firm Together Films, where she was head of acquisitions, sales and distribution. She was also previously director of international sales at UK sales outfit Altitude Film Sales. She will be responsible for ensuring features awarded BFI National Lottery production funding are successfully delivered to the marketplace and to UK and international audiences.
This...
- 6/29/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paramount’s Republic Pictures label has acquired North American rights to dystopian drama-thriller The End We Start From, starring BAFTA and Emmy winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve).
The mid seven-figure pact marks the biggest announced deal for a project on sale at this year’s Cannes market so far. Anton and UTA are handling world sales here on the Riviera.
Comer stars as a woman who, along with her newborn child, must try to find her way home amid an environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees their young family torn apart in the chaos.
Mahalia Belo (The Long Song) directs the movie, which also stars Joel Fry (Cruella), Mark Strong (Kingsman), Gina McKee (My Policeman), Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game).
Based on the novel by Megan Hunter and adapted to screen by Alice Birch (Normal People), pic is produced by...
The mid seven-figure pact marks the biggest announced deal for a project on sale at this year’s Cannes market so far. Anton and UTA are handling world sales here on the Riviera.
Comer stars as a woman who, along with her newborn child, must try to find her way home amid an environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees their young family torn apart in the chaos.
Mahalia Belo (The Long Song) directs the movie, which also stars Joel Fry (Cruella), Mark Strong (Kingsman), Gina McKee (My Policeman), Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game).
Based on the novel by Megan Hunter and adapted to screen by Alice Birch (Normal People), pic is produced by...
- 5/21/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Signature Entertainment has acquired the U.K. and Irish rights to The End We Start From, starring Jodie Comer, from Anton.
The feature is directed by BAFTA winner Mahalia Belo (The Long Song) from a script written by Alice Birch (Normal People, Dead Ringers) and based on the novel by Megan Hunter. The film is led by BAFTA and Olivier award winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts), Joel Fry (Cruella), Gina McKee (Notting Hill), Nina Sosanya (Love Actually), Mark Strong (Kingsman) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Mauritanian). Cumberbatch also produces.
When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival.
The film is produced by Leah Clarke (The...
The feature is directed by BAFTA winner Mahalia Belo (The Long Song) from a script written by Alice Birch (Normal People, Dead Ringers) and based on the novel by Megan Hunter. The film is led by BAFTA and Olivier award winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts), Joel Fry (Cruella), Gina McKee (Notting Hill), Nina Sosanya (Love Actually), Mark Strong (Kingsman) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Mauritanian). Cumberbatch also produces.
When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival.
The film is produced by Leah Clarke (The...
- 5/17/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Ouch,” said one UK independent producer.
UK producers have applauded the focus on transparency and clarity from the revamped British Film Institute (Bf) Filmmaking Fund unveiled earlier this week, but are increasingly concerned about the fall in funding for indie features and an apparent reduction in the number that will be supported through the National Lottery Funding.
“I appreciate their effort to have more transparency and formalise the application processes a bit more in terms of response time for instance,” said Hélène Sifre, producer at Kleio Films, who produced Bifa-winning Blue Jean, the debut feature from Georgia Oakley, which received...
UK producers have applauded the focus on transparency and clarity from the revamped British Film Institute (Bf) Filmmaking Fund unveiled earlier this week, but are increasingly concerned about the fall in funding for indie features and an apparent reduction in the number that will be supported through the National Lottery Funding.
“I appreciate their effort to have more transparency and formalise the application processes a bit more in terms of response time for instance,” said Hélène Sifre, producer at Kleio Films, who produced Bifa-winning Blue Jean, the debut feature from Georgia Oakley, which received...
- 3/23/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Four new funds have been created covering development and production support.
It is a time of considerable change for the British Film Institute (BFI)’s Filmmaking Fund – while it ushers in an updated fund for UK filmmakers, it is also saying goodbye to a trio of senior executives, who will step down later this year.
The revamped Filmmaking Fund plans include four new funds to support the production and development of fiction feature films (read here for more details on the funds).
BFI Filmmaking Fund director Mia Bays talks to Screen about achieving cultural impact through public funding, boosting support...
It is a time of considerable change for the British Film Institute (BFI)’s Filmmaking Fund – while it ushers in an updated fund for UK filmmakers, it is also saying goodbye to a trio of senior executives, who will step down later this year.
The revamped Filmmaking Fund plans include four new funds to support the production and development of fiction feature films (read here for more details on the funds).
BFI Filmmaking Fund director Mia Bays talks to Screen about achieving cultural impact through public funding, boosting support...
- 3/21/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The British Film Institute has unveiled new plans to support the U.K. independent sector with four focused film funds.
Operating beneath the newly-launched BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund (the finances have come directly from the U.K.’s National Lottery), the new structure will see £36.6 million ($44.8 million) go towards the production and development of feature films via four individual funds over three years. Meanwhile, £17.4 million ($21.3 million) has also been dedicated to supporting documentaries, shorts, talent development and immersive filmmaking.
The bulk of the production and development support for features — $36 million — will be available via the BFI Discovery Fund for directorial debuts, aiming to support six features with budgets below £3.5 million ($4.3 million) per year, and the BFI Impact Fund, which will aim to provide production funding for five projects each year, either from second-time time filmmakers or beyond, or debuts budgeted at over £3.5 million ($4.3 million). The Impact Fund, which has criteria...
Operating beneath the newly-launched BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund (the finances have come directly from the U.K.’s National Lottery), the new structure will see £36.6 million ($44.8 million) go towards the production and development of feature films via four individual funds over three years. Meanwhile, £17.4 million ($21.3 million) has also been dedicated to supporting documentaries, shorts, talent development and immersive filmmaking.
The bulk of the production and development support for features — $36 million — will be available via the BFI Discovery Fund for directorial debuts, aiming to support six features with budgets below £3.5 million ($4.3 million) per year, and the BFI Impact Fund, which will aim to provide production funding for five projects each year, either from second-time time filmmakers or beyond, or debuts budgeted at over £3.5 million ($4.3 million). The Impact Fund, which has criteria...
- 3/21/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The British Film Institute (BFI) today announced that it will grant $44m (£36.6m) in cash awards over three years to support fiction feature films as part of its new National Lottery Filmmaking Fund.
The cash will be available through four distinct funds:
Discovery – The discovery fund will be dedicated to directorial debuts and aim to support six feature films per year, each budgeted below $4m (£3.5m). The first deadline for applications is April 24 for fully-developed projects seeking to shoot this year. Applications will reopen in July and November. Impact — The impact fund will be a rolling fund focused on projects from second-time filmmakers and beyond or debuts budgeted over £3.5m. The cash pot will aim to support five projects a year with an emphasis on scale and audience impact. Development — The development fund will cover costs at all stages of the development process. The fund will aim to support around 60-70 projects per year.
The cash will be available through four distinct funds:
Discovery – The discovery fund will be dedicated to directorial debuts and aim to support six feature films per year, each budgeted below $4m (£3.5m). The first deadline for applications is April 24 for fully-developed projects seeking to shoot this year. Applications will reopen in July and November. Impact — The impact fund will be a rolling fund focused on projects from second-time filmmakers and beyond or debuts budgeted over £3.5m. The cash pot will aim to support five projects a year with an emphasis on scale and audience impact. Development — The development fund will cover costs at all stages of the development process. The fund will aim to support around 60-70 projects per year.
- 3/21/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The BFI is investing £36.6m of National Lottery funding in fiction feature support over three years.
The British Film Institute (BFI) National Lottery Filmmaking Fund has laid out plans for four new funds as part of its £54m support strategy for UK films and talent over the course of three years, as teased under the BFI Screen Culture 2033 10-year funding roadmap unveiled in September of last year.
This £54m, which represents almost 40% of the BFI’s National Lottery ‘good cause’ funding, is divided into £36.6m for production and development funding across three years via four funds: Development (60-70 projects per...
The British Film Institute (BFI) National Lottery Filmmaking Fund has laid out plans for four new funds as part of its £54m support strategy for UK films and talent over the course of three years, as teased under the BFI Screen Culture 2033 10-year funding roadmap unveiled in September of last year.
This £54m, which represents almost 40% of the BFI’s National Lottery ‘good cause’ funding, is divided into £36.6m for production and development funding across three years via four funds: Development (60-70 projects per...
- 3/21/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Senior British Film Institute team members Editor-at-Large Lizzie Francke, Head of Production Fiona Morham and Head of Editorial Natascha Wharton have announced their decision to leave the BFI Film Fund later this year.
The trio has led the BFI’s National Lottery funding for the development and production of UK films, providing guidance and support to filmmakers and their teams throughout the life journey of a film and initiatives for developing emerging filmmaking talent.
They will step down in late spring to early summer 2023. In the interim, they will continue to support their slate of projects, working with the Filmmaking Fund team as it transitions to a new structure.
Francke, Morham and Wharton put out a joint statement saying: “It has been such a huge privilege to work for the Film Fund over the years and to champion an extraordinary range of filmmakers. With the 2023-33 strategy and the Filmmaking Fund being launched this week,...
The trio has led the BFI’s National Lottery funding for the development and production of UK films, providing guidance and support to filmmakers and their teams throughout the life journey of a film and initiatives for developing emerging filmmaking talent.
They will step down in late spring to early summer 2023. In the interim, they will continue to support their slate of projects, working with the Filmmaking Fund team as it transitions to a new structure.
Francke, Morham and Wharton put out a joint statement saying: “It has been such a huge privilege to work for the Film Fund over the years and to champion an extraordinary range of filmmakers. With the 2023-33 strategy and the Filmmaking Fund being launched this week,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Senior execs will step down later this year.
Three senior executives at the UK’s BFI Film Fund, editor-at-large Lizzie Francke, head of production Fiona Morham, and head of editorial Natascha Wharton, will step down later this year.
The trio has helped to lead the BFI’s National Lottery funding for the development and production of UK films, and supported films including Rye Lane, Aftersun, Girl, Triangle Of Sadness and Rocks.
The news comes ahead of details of the latest iteration of the fund, to be announced tomorrow (Tuesday March 20), which forms part of Screen Culture 2033, the BFI’s 10-year strategy.
Three senior executives at the UK’s BFI Film Fund, editor-at-large Lizzie Francke, head of production Fiona Morham, and head of editorial Natascha Wharton, will step down later this year.
The trio has helped to lead the BFI’s National Lottery funding for the development and production of UK films, and supported films including Rye Lane, Aftersun, Girl, Triangle Of Sadness and Rocks.
The news comes ahead of details of the latest iteration of the fund, to be announced tomorrow (Tuesday March 20), which forms part of Screen Culture 2033, the BFI’s 10-year strategy.
- 3/20/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Senior execs will step down later this year.
Three senior executives at the UK’s BFI Film Fund, editor-at-large Lizzie Francke, head of production Fiona Morham, and head of editorial Natascha Wharton, will step down later this year.
The trio has helped to lead the BFI’s National Lottery funding for the development and production of UK films, and supported films including Rye Lane, Aftersun, Girl, Triangle Of Sadness and Rocks.
The news comes ahead of details of the latest iteration of the fund, to be announced tomorrow (Tuesday March 20), which forms part of Screen Culture 2033, the BFI’s 10-year strategy.
Three senior executives at the UK’s BFI Film Fund, editor-at-large Lizzie Francke, head of production Fiona Morham, and head of editorial Natascha Wharton, will step down later this year.
The trio has helped to lead the BFI’s National Lottery funding for the development and production of UK films, and supported films including Rye Lane, Aftersun, Girl, Triangle Of Sadness and Rocks.
The news comes ahead of details of the latest iteration of the fund, to be announced tomorrow (Tuesday March 20), which forms part of Screen Culture 2033, the BFI’s 10-year strategy.
- 3/20/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Lizzie Francke, editor-at-large, Fiona Morham, head of production and Natascha Wharton, head of editorial will leave the BFI Film Fund later this year.
The three senior team members have led the BFI’s national lottery funding for the development and production of U.K. films. Acclaimed titles supported by them include “Rye Lane,” “Aftersun,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Blue Jean” and “After Love,” among many others.
Francke, Morham and Wharton will depart in late spring/early summer. They will continue to support their slate of projects, working with the filmmaking fund team as it transitions to a new structure. The news comes on the eve of details of the new fund, which will be revealed on March 21.
The BFI’s Screen Culture 2033 10-year strategy, published in 2022, earmarks £54 million ($66 million) over the next three years for filmmakers. The new BFI filmmaking fund is part of that. The BFI said it is is...
The three senior team members have led the BFI’s national lottery funding for the development and production of U.K. films. Acclaimed titles supported by them include “Rye Lane,” “Aftersun,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Blue Jean” and “After Love,” among many others.
Francke, Morham and Wharton will depart in late spring/early summer. They will continue to support their slate of projects, working with the filmmaking fund team as it transitions to a new structure. The news comes on the eve of details of the new fund, which will be revealed on March 21.
The BFI’s Screen Culture 2033 10-year strategy, published in 2022, earmarks £54 million ($66 million) over the next three years for filmmakers. The new BFI filmmaking fund is part of that. The BFI said it is is...
- 3/20/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Former director of Toronto International Film Festival died on January 25, aged 55.
Filmmakers James Schamus, Atom Egoyan and Hirokazu Kore-eda have led tributes from across the industry to Noah Cowan, the influentional former director of Toronto International Film Festival who died last week.
Former TIFF colleagues, long-time business partner John Vanco and key figures from the film industry, festivals and arts institutions also paid tribute to Cowan, who died aged 55 on January 25 in Los Angeles, after an illness.
Veteran US producer Schamus said: “Noah’s resume oddly conceals as much as it reveals. It would be easy to conflate his roles...
Filmmakers James Schamus, Atom Egoyan and Hirokazu Kore-eda have led tributes from across the industry to Noah Cowan, the influentional former director of Toronto International Film Festival who died last week.
Former TIFF colleagues, long-time business partner John Vanco and key figures from the film industry, festivals and arts institutions also paid tribute to Cowan, who died aged 55 on January 25 in Los Angeles, after an illness.
Veteran US producer Schamus said: “Noah’s resume oddly conceals as much as it reveals. It would be easy to conflate his roles...
- 1/30/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
“I remember thinking, ‘I am going to see something so terrifying that I am going to die.’”
Temperatures may be low but the mood is high in Park City, Utah this weekend, as the in-person Sundance Film Festival returns to the town for the first time since 2020.
The festival kicked off on Thursday (January 19) with a discussion between senior Sundance top brass Joana Vicente, Kim Yutani, John Nein and Eugene Hernandez, who will assume the reins as festival director for the 2024 edition. This was followed by the Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance event attended by guests including honorary awardees Luca Guadagnino,...
Temperatures may be low but the mood is high in Park City, Utah this weekend, as the in-person Sundance Film Festival returns to the town for the first time since 2020.
The festival kicked off on Thursday (January 19) with a discussion between senior Sundance top brass Joana Vicente, Kim Yutani, John Nein and Eugene Hernandez, who will assume the reins as festival director for the 2024 edition. This was followed by the Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance event attended by guests including honorary awardees Luca Guadagnino,...
- 1/21/2023
- by Ben Dalton¬Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The British Film Institute (BFI) has hired Ama Ampadu as a senior production and development executive for the BFI Film Fund.
Ampadu has worked as an independent producer across U.K. and international projects for over 12 years and produced Yared Zeleke’s “Lamb” (2015), the first Ethiopian film selected at Cannes.
Reporting to Natascha Wharton, the fund’s head of editorial, Ampadu will work alongside fellow senior production and development executive Louise Ortega, as well as editor-at-large Lizzie Francke. She replaces Kristin Irving, who joined BBC Film last year. With Ortega, Ampadu’s portfolio will have a focus on debuts, as well as working closely with BFI Network to ensure there is an effective crossover for new and emerging talent. Working on both development and production funds, Ampadu will assess applications, recommend funding decisions and provide support for filmmakers and film projects.
Mia Bays, director of the BFI Film Fund, said:...
Ampadu has worked as an independent producer across U.K. and international projects for over 12 years and produced Yared Zeleke’s “Lamb” (2015), the first Ethiopian film selected at Cannes.
Reporting to Natascha Wharton, the fund’s head of editorial, Ampadu will work alongside fellow senior production and development executive Louise Ortega, as well as editor-at-large Lizzie Francke. She replaces Kristin Irving, who joined BBC Film last year. With Ortega, Ampadu’s portfolio will have a focus on debuts, as well as working closely with BFI Network to ensure there is an effective crossover for new and emerging talent. Working on both development and production funds, Ampadu will assess applications, recommend funding decisions and provide support for filmmakers and film projects.
Mia Bays, director of the BFI Film Fund, said:...
- 1/20/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The BFI has hired independent producer Ama Ampadu as the new senior production and development executive for the BFI Film Fund. Ampadu replaces Kristin Irving, who joined BBC Film late last year.
Reporting to Natascha Wharton, the film fund’s Head of Editorial, Ampadu will work alongside Louise Ortega, who joined the organization last year as a Senior Production and Development Executive, as well as Editor-at-Large Lizzie Francke.
Ampadu’s brief will have a central focus on filmmaking debuts, as well as working closely with BFI Network to ensure there is a practical crossover for new and emerging talent.
Alongside Ortega and the rest of the team, Ampadu will also oversee the fund’s slate, which has projects at various stages of production, supporting filmmakers at each stage of the filmmaking process and beyond, as well as developing outreach strategies to engage filmmakers with the BFI.
The BFI said that...
Reporting to Natascha Wharton, the film fund’s Head of Editorial, Ampadu will work alongside Louise Ortega, who joined the organization last year as a Senior Production and Development Executive, as well as Editor-at-Large Lizzie Francke.
Ampadu’s brief will have a central focus on filmmaking debuts, as well as working closely with BFI Network to ensure there is a practical crossover for new and emerging talent.
Alongside Ortega and the rest of the team, Ampadu will also oversee the fund’s slate, which has projects at various stages of production, supporting filmmakers at each stage of the filmmaking process and beyond, as well as developing outreach strategies to engage filmmakers with the BFI.
The BFI said that...
- 1/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Ama Ampadu will report to Fund’s head of editorial Natascha Wharton.
UK producer Ama Ampadu has been appointed senior production and development executive for the BFI Film Fund.
Ampadu, who has worked as an independent producer across UK and international projects for over 12 years, started in her role this week.
She will work on both the development and production funds, assessing applications, recommending funding decisions and providing hands-on creative, production and holistic support for filmmakers and film projects.
Ampadu will report to Natascha Wharton, the Fund’s head of editorial. She will work alongside Louise Ortega, who joined the...
UK producer Ama Ampadu has been appointed senior production and development executive for the BFI Film Fund.
Ampadu, who has worked as an independent producer across UK and international projects for over 12 years, started in her role this week.
She will work on both the development and production funds, assessing applications, recommending funding decisions and providing hands-on creative, production and holistic support for filmmakers and film projects.
Ampadu will report to Natascha Wharton, the Fund’s head of editorial. She will work alongside Louise Ortega, who joined the...
- 1/20/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
‘Triangle of Sadness’ Directed by Ruben Östlund;Ruben Östlund, Cannes Competition, Palme d’Or WinnerWhat a production! I have not seen ‘Triangle of Sadness’ yet. I want to, though it was not on the top of my list during Cannes this year. Looking at the credits, I am wondering what it took to get this produced.
IMDb synopsis of this film: A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.
I could ask a few of my friends about their involvement in its production, e.g., Jim Stark, Micah Green, Philippe Bober, Lizzie Francke, Mike Goodridge…I wonder what they would tell me. Or I could guess…which is what I am doing here as a subject of this blog.
Philippe Bober: Coproduction Office is the international sales agent for the film. But the company is also, as the name suggests, a coproducer and Philippe usually takes a strong part in the development of the project as well as representing it for licensing to territories. In this case (I have to repeat that have not seen the film, but based upon what I have only heard said), I would guess that he did not do much with the development because when he does, the project is in no way formulaic; I have heard this film has traces of Ostland’s previous film, The Square, which then makes it more prosaic. Bober’s hand in film always makes the film unique.
And Philippe usually works with younger budding talent or else hardcore art house filmmakers. However, as international sales agent, perhaps some presales by him to territories helped finance the film. I am unsure that was necessary because the director Ruben Ostlund is so well known and accoladed already that I would think the money might come from other more well established sources. You can see the companies involved and get an idea of funding.
That’s where I would guess Micah Greene would enter the picture. At 30Westhe is not only producing and is best friends with the US distributor, Neon, one of the top U.S. films distributors today, but he comes from the most prestigious CAA where he was in charge of international financing for their films. He was and is still on top and deserves every good thing that comes his way. A mensch. Lizzie Francke is a true producer, has done horror and comes from the roots of arthouse films from U.K. She is now Editor-at-Large at the BFI Film Fund now. There certainly is a need for such a UK partner. Is there a need for more? Mike Goodridge, founder of the brand new production company Good Chaos, is also there. Aside from producing, Mike has worn many hats, beginning as a journalist and heading up the L.A. office at Screen International, heading up Protagonist a top U.K. international sales agency as well as a production company, heading up Beijing (?) Film Festival, all around professional and all around good guy.
Olivier Père, former head along with (now Tribeca’s Frederic Boyer) looks like he is involved in every current production these days… Check out his credits in IMDb:
La grande magie (co-producer) (post-production)
2022Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (producer)
2022Pacifiction (co-producer)
2022More Than Ever (co-producer)
2022Triangle of Sadness (co-producer)
2022Brother and Sister (co-producer)
2022Corsage (co-producer)
2022One Fine Morning (co-producer)
2022Les Harkis (co-producer)
And last but not least, Jim Stark, another with an eye, like Philippe Bober, for cutting edge talent and stories, has made 17 films as exec producer, producer, associate producer or co-producer just since 2018. That is almost four films a year! For those who might remember, he also discovered and produced for Jim Jarmusch on his first five films starting with Down by Law in 1986, done just after we all witnessed ourselves transported by Stranger Than Paradise at the New York Film Festival, the year Jim and I met and I began buying his films for Lorimar and Republic.
The Owner (executive producer) (filming)
Inside (executive producer) (post-production)
2022Triangle of Sadness (executive producer)
2021El camino de Sol (associate producer)
2021The Middle Man (executive producer)
2021/IVAlma (co-producer)
2021Prayers for the Stolen (producer)
2020Treasure City (producer)
2020The 11th Green (executive producer)
2019Not Not Jazz (Documentary) (producer)
2019Echo (co-producer)
2019The Whistlers (associate producer)
2019One Taxi Ride (Documentary) (executive producer)
2019The Operative (associate producer)
2018Our Time (associate producer)
2018Birds of Passage (co-producer)
2018/IIAdam (producer)
___
Five is not a bad number of women represented on a list of 31 producers, coproducers, associate produces, executive producers and line producers…that’s almost 20 . But the list still sounds to me like an old boys’ list and I wonder if they all got back a good share of the budget. We all know movies never make money, but the above and below the line members do. What was the budget? Was this everyone’s reward for all the times they do not get paid because they are making art built into the budget?
Or am I just being cynical? Hollywood stunts don’t surprise me but what does surprise me is that it also won the top prize in Cannes. These producers are all-round good guys who are also good business men, and networking is crucial to this business. It’s nice to see them all together; this roster is very impressive.
Writing for young talent, I would say: This is a list of acquaintances you should aspire to have, study their credits, speak to them about their projects when you meet them. But, also remember to network yourself within your own circle. This list is of people who have all known each other many years, wearing many different coats and hats. So will you if you heed these words: Network and know who you are meeting and why you are meeting them as you go through your festival circuit(s) with your dreams of making the films that will change the world, then when you reach their age, you will also be poised to profit from all your work.
‘Triangle of Sadness’ produced by:
Brina Elizabeta Blaz…executive producer
Philippe Bober…producer
Julio Chavezmontes…co-producer
Alessandro Del Vigna…executive producer
Lizzie Francke…executive producer
Dan Friedkin…executive producer
Ryan Friedkin…executive producer
Rose Garnett…executive producer
Mike Goodridge…co-producer
Micah Green…executive producer
Faruk Guven…co-producer
Per Damgaard Hansen…co-producer
Erik Hemmendorff…producer
Giorgos Karnavas…co-producer
Konstantinos Kontovrakis…co-producer
Clemens Köstlin…co-producer
Jovan Marjanovic…associate producer
Mouns Overgaard…pre-production: line producer
Marina Perales Marhuenda…co-producer
Mirsad Purivatra…associate producer
Olivier Père…co-producer
Andreas Roald…executive producer
James Benjamin Shannon…executive producer
Danae Spathara…line producer: Greece
Jim Stark…executive producer
Daniel Steinman…executive producer
Bradley Thomas…executive producer
Zahra Waldeck…line producer: Sweden
Pierre Wallon…line producer: Greece
Dan Wechsler…executive producer
Jamal Zeinal Zade…executive producer
And, just for the record, if you look at the IMDb list of production companies (rather than people) involved, you will see this is a giant of a coproduction involving private and public companies, TV stations and international film funds:
Production CompaniesImperative Entertainment (presents)Film i Väst (in association with)BBC Films (in association with)30West (in association with)Plattform Produktion (production)Essential Filmproduktion GmbH (co-production)Coproduction Office (co-production)Sveriges Television (Svt) (co-production)Zdf/Arte (co-production)Arte France Cinéma (co-production)Trt (co-production)Svenska Filminstitutet (Sfi) (support)Eurimages (support)Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (support)Det Danske Filminstitut (support)Moin — Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (support)British Film Institute (BFI) (support)Nordisk Film (participation)Arte France (participation)Canal+ (participation)Ciné+ (participation)Heretic (in association with)Bord Cadre Films (in association with)Sovereign Films (II) (in association with)Piano (in association)
And finally, since the return on the investment, theoretically, comes from the final sources of revenues, the consumer, it is worth knowing what streamers receive, that that information is the hardest to get. Second to that is the monies paid to the Isa (international sales agents) though sales to distributors. Here are the distributors as listed in IMDb and Cinando, two sources of such information which do not always list the same information:
Distributors as listed on IMDb:Sf Studios (2022) (Sweden) (theatrical)Vertigo Média Kft. (2022) (Hungary) (theatrical)Bac Films (2022) (France) (theatrical)Avalon (2022) (Spain) (all media)Elastica (2022) (Spain) (all media)Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2022) (United Arab Emirates) (all media) (Middle East, North Africa and Iran)Neon (USA) (all media)Vertigo Média Kft. (2022) (Hungary) (all media)
Distributors as listed on Cinando and not on IMDb:
Benelux, Surinam, Dutch Antilles — September Film Distribution Belgium, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
Baltics — Filmstop Ou, Theatrical, TV, VOD
Italy — Teodora Film, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
South Korea — Green Narae Media Co., Ltd., Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Lithuania — A-one Films Baltic, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
Poland — Gutek Film Ltd, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Romania — Independenta Film, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Serbia — Five Stars Film Distribution
Singapore — Anticipate Pictures, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Slovenia, territories of former Yugoslavia — Demiurg — Cvetka Flakus, S.P., Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Switzerland — Xenix Filmdistribution Gmbh, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
Turkey — Filmarti Film, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD...
IMDb synopsis of this film: A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.
I could ask a few of my friends about their involvement in its production, e.g., Jim Stark, Micah Green, Philippe Bober, Lizzie Francke, Mike Goodridge…I wonder what they would tell me. Or I could guess…which is what I am doing here as a subject of this blog.
Philippe Bober: Coproduction Office is the international sales agent for the film. But the company is also, as the name suggests, a coproducer and Philippe usually takes a strong part in the development of the project as well as representing it for licensing to territories. In this case (I have to repeat that have not seen the film, but based upon what I have only heard said), I would guess that he did not do much with the development because when he does, the project is in no way formulaic; I have heard this film has traces of Ostland’s previous film, The Square, which then makes it more prosaic. Bober’s hand in film always makes the film unique.
And Philippe usually works with younger budding talent or else hardcore art house filmmakers. However, as international sales agent, perhaps some presales by him to territories helped finance the film. I am unsure that was necessary because the director Ruben Ostlund is so well known and accoladed already that I would think the money might come from other more well established sources. You can see the companies involved and get an idea of funding.
That’s where I would guess Micah Greene would enter the picture. At 30Westhe is not only producing and is best friends with the US distributor, Neon, one of the top U.S. films distributors today, but he comes from the most prestigious CAA where he was in charge of international financing for their films. He was and is still on top and deserves every good thing that comes his way. A mensch. Lizzie Francke is a true producer, has done horror and comes from the roots of arthouse films from U.K. She is now Editor-at-Large at the BFI Film Fund now. There certainly is a need for such a UK partner. Is there a need for more? Mike Goodridge, founder of the brand new production company Good Chaos, is also there. Aside from producing, Mike has worn many hats, beginning as a journalist and heading up the L.A. office at Screen International, heading up Protagonist a top U.K. international sales agency as well as a production company, heading up Beijing (?) Film Festival, all around professional and all around good guy.
Olivier Père, former head along with (now Tribeca’s Frederic Boyer) looks like he is involved in every current production these days… Check out his credits in IMDb:
La grande magie (co-producer) (post-production)
2022Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (producer)
2022Pacifiction (co-producer)
2022More Than Ever (co-producer)
2022Triangle of Sadness (co-producer)
2022Brother and Sister (co-producer)
2022Corsage (co-producer)
2022One Fine Morning (co-producer)
2022Les Harkis (co-producer)
And last but not least, Jim Stark, another with an eye, like Philippe Bober, for cutting edge talent and stories, has made 17 films as exec producer, producer, associate producer or co-producer just since 2018. That is almost four films a year! For those who might remember, he also discovered and produced for Jim Jarmusch on his first five films starting with Down by Law in 1986, done just after we all witnessed ourselves transported by Stranger Than Paradise at the New York Film Festival, the year Jim and I met and I began buying his films for Lorimar and Republic.
The Owner (executive producer) (filming)
Inside (executive producer) (post-production)
2022Triangle of Sadness (executive producer)
2021El camino de Sol (associate producer)
2021The Middle Man (executive producer)
2021/IVAlma (co-producer)
2021Prayers for the Stolen (producer)
2020Treasure City (producer)
2020The 11th Green (executive producer)
2019Not Not Jazz (Documentary) (producer)
2019Echo (co-producer)
2019The Whistlers (associate producer)
2019One Taxi Ride (Documentary) (executive producer)
2019The Operative (associate producer)
2018Our Time (associate producer)
2018Birds of Passage (co-producer)
2018/IIAdam (producer)
___
Five is not a bad number of women represented on a list of 31 producers, coproducers, associate produces, executive producers and line producers…that’s almost 20 . But the list still sounds to me like an old boys’ list and I wonder if they all got back a good share of the budget. We all know movies never make money, but the above and below the line members do. What was the budget? Was this everyone’s reward for all the times they do not get paid because they are making art built into the budget?
Or am I just being cynical? Hollywood stunts don’t surprise me but what does surprise me is that it also won the top prize in Cannes. These producers are all-round good guys who are also good business men, and networking is crucial to this business. It’s nice to see them all together; this roster is very impressive.
Writing for young talent, I would say: This is a list of acquaintances you should aspire to have, study their credits, speak to them about their projects when you meet them. But, also remember to network yourself within your own circle. This list is of people who have all known each other many years, wearing many different coats and hats. So will you if you heed these words: Network and know who you are meeting and why you are meeting them as you go through your festival circuit(s) with your dreams of making the films that will change the world, then when you reach their age, you will also be poised to profit from all your work.
‘Triangle of Sadness’ produced by:
Brina Elizabeta Blaz…executive producer
Philippe Bober…producer
Julio Chavezmontes…co-producer
Alessandro Del Vigna…executive producer
Lizzie Francke…executive producer
Dan Friedkin…executive producer
Ryan Friedkin…executive producer
Rose Garnett…executive producer
Mike Goodridge…co-producer
Micah Green…executive producer
Faruk Guven…co-producer
Per Damgaard Hansen…co-producer
Erik Hemmendorff…producer
Giorgos Karnavas…co-producer
Konstantinos Kontovrakis…co-producer
Clemens Köstlin…co-producer
Jovan Marjanovic…associate producer
Mouns Overgaard…pre-production: line producer
Marina Perales Marhuenda…co-producer
Mirsad Purivatra…associate producer
Olivier Père…co-producer
Andreas Roald…executive producer
James Benjamin Shannon…executive producer
Danae Spathara…line producer: Greece
Jim Stark…executive producer
Daniel Steinman…executive producer
Bradley Thomas…executive producer
Zahra Waldeck…line producer: Sweden
Pierre Wallon…line producer: Greece
Dan Wechsler…executive producer
Jamal Zeinal Zade…executive producer
And, just for the record, if you look at the IMDb list of production companies (rather than people) involved, you will see this is a giant of a coproduction involving private and public companies, TV stations and international film funds:
Production CompaniesImperative Entertainment (presents)Film i Väst (in association with)BBC Films (in association with)30West (in association with)Plattform Produktion (production)Essential Filmproduktion GmbH (co-production)Coproduction Office (co-production)Sveriges Television (Svt) (co-production)Zdf/Arte (co-production)Arte France Cinéma (co-production)Trt (co-production)Svenska Filminstitutet (Sfi) (support)Eurimages (support)Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (support)Det Danske Filminstitut (support)Moin — Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (support)British Film Institute (BFI) (support)Nordisk Film (participation)Arte France (participation)Canal+ (participation)Ciné+ (participation)Heretic (in association with)Bord Cadre Films (in association with)Sovereign Films (II) (in association with)Piano (in association)
And finally, since the return on the investment, theoretically, comes from the final sources of revenues, the consumer, it is worth knowing what streamers receive, that that information is the hardest to get. Second to that is the monies paid to the Isa (international sales agents) though sales to distributors. Here are the distributors as listed in IMDb and Cinando, two sources of such information which do not always list the same information:
Distributors as listed on IMDb:Sf Studios (2022) (Sweden) (theatrical)Vertigo Média Kft. (2022) (Hungary) (theatrical)Bac Films (2022) (France) (theatrical)Avalon (2022) (Spain) (all media)Elastica (2022) (Spain) (all media)Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2022) (United Arab Emirates) (all media) (Middle East, North Africa and Iran)Neon (USA) (all media)Vertigo Média Kft. (2022) (Hungary) (all media)
Distributors as listed on Cinando and not on IMDb:
Benelux, Surinam, Dutch Antilles — September Film Distribution Belgium, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
Baltics — Filmstop Ou, Theatrical, TV, VOD
Italy — Teodora Film, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
South Korea — Green Narae Media Co., Ltd., Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Lithuania — A-one Films Baltic, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
Poland — Gutek Film Ltd, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Romania — Independenta Film, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Serbia — Five Stars Film Distribution
Singapore — Anticipate Pictures, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Slovenia, territories of former Yugoslavia — Demiurg — Cvetka Flakus, S.P., Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD
Switzerland — Xenix Filmdistribution Gmbh, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
Turkey — Filmarti Film, Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD...
- 12/18/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Directors Notes is back at Aesthetica Short Film Festival in several capacities this year. Firstly, we’re here, in this article, to spotlight a selection of short films from the lineup we deem to be especially worth your time and secondly, we also have a presence in the festival with Dn presenting the Dark Hearts, Unhinged Minds programme at this year’s Aesthetica – showcasing a selection of Dn alum shorts which all relate to each other through their shared sensibility of a darkened, unsettling spirit. Each short film featured in our guest programme has been covered on this site so once you’ve seen them you can find out how they were made right here on our pages. Also, our very own Editor-in-Chief MarBelle once again joined the Asff team as a programmer for the comedy and drama sections, as well as chairing the Asff The Role of the Executive Producer masterclass with Lizzie Francke,...
- 11/8/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Filmmaker Mark Cousins, Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allison Gardner and Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films expressed their sadness.
The industry has reacted with shock at the news announced yesterday (October 6) that Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen are to “cease trading immediately” as parent charity, Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), enters administration.
It is understood that 102 staff will be made redundant with immediate effect. A total of 107 staff were employed across all four of the Cmi’s businesses. Five staff have been kept on to assist with the administration process.
Cmi...
The industry has reacted with shock at the news announced yesterday (October 6) that Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen are to “cease trading immediately” as parent charity, Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), enters administration.
It is understood that 102 staff will be made redundant with immediate effect. A total of 107 staff were employed across all four of the Cmi’s businesses. Five staff have been kept on to assist with the administration process.
Cmi...
- 10/7/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Paul Mescal heartbreakingly leads another A24 drama.
The “Normal People” breakout star appears in both “God’s Creatures” (out now) and “Aftersun,” two films set to be distributed by A24. Mescal plays a father adrift on a holiday alongside his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Francesca Corio) in Turkey in the late 1990s. A present-day Sophie (Celia Rowlson-Hall) reflects over 20 years later on the tense trip with her father.
“Aftersun” premiered at 2022 Cannes’ Critics Week, marking writer/director Charlotte Wells’ feature debut. Scottish filmmaker Wells previously wrote and directed three short films while pursuing her master’s degree at New York University.
Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins produced “Aftersun” through his production company Pastel, which he co-founded with Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak. Amy Jackson of Unified Theory also produced. Jenkins described crafting “Aftersun” as “organizing these memories into a devastating film that had me in the corner crying even though I have...
The “Normal People” breakout star appears in both “God’s Creatures” (out now) and “Aftersun,” two films set to be distributed by A24. Mescal plays a father adrift on a holiday alongside his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Francesca Corio) in Turkey in the late 1990s. A present-day Sophie (Celia Rowlson-Hall) reflects over 20 years later on the tense trip with her father.
“Aftersun” premiered at 2022 Cannes’ Critics Week, marking writer/director Charlotte Wells’ feature debut. Scottish filmmaker Wells previously wrote and directed three short films while pursuing her master’s degree at New York University.
Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins produced “Aftersun” through his production company Pastel, which he co-founded with Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak. Amy Jackson of Unified Theory also produced. Jenkins described crafting “Aftersun” as “organizing these memories into a devastating film that had me in the corner crying even though I have...
- 9/27/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Strong Join Jodie Comer in Apocalypse Thriller ‘The End We Start From’
Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Strong (“1917”) are among those boarding the post-apocalyptic thriller “The End We Start From,” starring Jodie Comer. All three actors will executive produce the film.
Katherine Waterston (of the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise), Joel Fry (“Cruella”), Gina McKee (“My Policeman”) and Nina Sosanya (“His Dark Materials”) round out the casting additions.
Mahalia Belo (“Requiem”) is directing from a script by Alice Birch based on Megan Hunter’s 2017 novel.
“The End We Start From” has been described as “a powerful hopeful story about the trials and joys of new motherhood in the midst of devastating floods that swallow up the city of London.” It follows a woman (played by Comer) with a newborn infant who must try to find her way home after a devastating environmental crisis strikes the city.
To mark the beginning of principal photography, the production released a first-look image of Comer in the film,...
Katherine Waterston (of the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise), Joel Fry (“Cruella”), Gina McKee (“My Policeman”) and Nina Sosanya (“His Dark Materials”) round out the casting additions.
Mahalia Belo (“Requiem”) is directing from a script by Alice Birch based on Megan Hunter’s 2017 novel.
“The End We Start From” has been described as “a powerful hopeful story about the trials and joys of new motherhood in the midst of devastating floods that swallow up the city of London.” It follows a woman (played by Comer) with a newborn infant who must try to find her way home after a devastating environmental crisis strikes the city.
To mark the beginning of principal photography, the production released a first-look image of Comer in the film,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Benedict Cumberbatch (“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”) and Mark Strong (Venice hit “Tár”) have joined Jodie Comer on the cast of “The End We Start From.”
BAFTA winning director Mahalia Belo (“Ellen”), has commenced principal photography on the film, which is based on the novel by Megan Hunter and adapted for the screen by Alice Birch.
Also joining the cast are Joel Fry (“Cruella”), Gina McKee (“Line Of Duty”), Katherine Waterston (“Fantastic Beasts”) and Nina Sosanya (“Screw”).
In the film, when an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos.
The film is produced by Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland (“The Mauritanian”) for Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch, Liza Marshall (“Temple”) for Hera Pictures, Amy Jackson (“Aftersun”) and Sophie Hunter.
Executive producers are Cumberbatch for SunnyMarch, Comer, Strong, Sébastien Raybaud, Fanny Soulier, Pieter Engels, Kate Maxwell for Anton, Dave Caplan and...
BAFTA winning director Mahalia Belo (“Ellen”), has commenced principal photography on the film, which is based on the novel by Megan Hunter and adapted for the screen by Alice Birch.
Also joining the cast are Joel Fry (“Cruella”), Gina McKee (“Line Of Duty”), Katherine Waterston (“Fantastic Beasts”) and Nina Sosanya (“Screw”).
In the film, when an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos.
The film is produced by Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland (“The Mauritanian”) for Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch, Liza Marshall (“Temple”) for Hera Pictures, Amy Jackson (“Aftersun”) and Sophie Hunter.
Executive producers are Cumberbatch for SunnyMarch, Comer, Strong, Sébastien Raybaud, Fanny Soulier, Pieter Engels, Kate Maxwell for Anton, Dave Caplan and...
- 9/7/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong and Katherine Waterston have joined survival film The End We Start From, starring Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) and directed by BAFTA-winning director Mahalia Belo (Ellen,
Requiem, The Long Song).
Based on the heart-wrenching novel by Megan Hunter and adapted for the screen by BAFTA-nominated Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession), the film tells a hopeful story about the trials and joys of new motherhood in the midst of devastating floods that swallow up the city of London. “When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos,” according to a plot description. “As a woman and her new-born try to find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this dystopian portrayal of family survival and hope.”
Comer said: “My character is ordinary and extraordinary,...
Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong and Katherine Waterston have joined survival film The End We Start From, starring Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) and directed by BAFTA-winning director Mahalia Belo (Ellen,
Requiem, The Long Song).
Based on the heart-wrenching novel by Megan Hunter and adapted for the screen by BAFTA-nominated Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession), the film tells a hopeful story about the trials and joys of new motherhood in the midst of devastating floods that swallow up the city of London. “When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos,” according to a plot description. “As a woman and her new-born try to find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this dystopian portrayal of family survival and hope.”
Comer said: “My character is ordinary and extraordinary,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) and Mark Strong will join the Jodie Comer-starring apocalyptic thriller The End We Start From. Both are also attached as executive producers on the film, whose principal photography has begun in London, and you can see a first-look image of Doctors and Killing Eve star Comer in action below.
Joel Fry, Gina McKee and Nina Sosanya have also joined the cast of the Mahalia Belo-directed feature.
Based on Megan Hunter’s novel and adapted by Bafta-nominated Alice Birch, The End We Start From is billed as “a powerful hopeful story about the trials and joys of new motherhood in the midst of devastating floods that swallow up the city of London.”
Deadline had first news of the hot package back in May, when Anton...
Joel Fry, Gina McKee and Nina Sosanya have also joined the cast of the Mahalia Belo-directed feature.
Based on Megan Hunter’s novel and adapted by Bafta-nominated Alice Birch, The End We Start From is billed as “a powerful hopeful story about the trials and joys of new motherhood in the midst of devastating floods that swallow up the city of London.”
Deadline had first news of the hot package back in May, when Anton...
- 9/7/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The new talent spotlight, in association with Screen Scotland, features 11 up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers.
Screen International, in association with Screen Scotland, has revealed the line-up for the first-ever Rising Stars Scotland, a major new talent spotlight for Scottish filmmakers and actors.
The programme aims to identify and promote the next generation of Scottish film talent to the international industry. Rising Stars Scotland is a joint initiative from Screen Scotland and Screen International, and is an offshoot of Screen’s UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow programme.
The line-up features 11 up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers who are...
Screen International, in association with Screen Scotland, has revealed the line-up for the first-ever Rising Stars Scotland, a major new talent spotlight for Scottish filmmakers and actors.
The programme aims to identify and promote the next generation of Scottish film talent to the international industry. Rising Stars Scotland is a joint initiative from Screen Scotland and Screen International, and is an offshoot of Screen’s UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow programme.
The line-up features 11 up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers who are...
- 8/15/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Submissions will close on June 13, 2022.
Applications for Rising Stars Scotland, a new initiative to identify and promote the next generation of Scottish film talent to the international industry, will close on Monday 13 June.
Screen International, with almost two decades of finding the world’s top creative film talent in the UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow, has partnered with Screen Scotland and will select ten up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers who are on the cusp of their first major professional breakthrough. Chosen Stars will either be originally from or currently living in Scotland.
To apply please use this Google Form.
Applications for Rising Stars Scotland, a new initiative to identify and promote the next generation of Scottish film talent to the international industry, will close on Monday 13 June.
Screen International, with almost two decades of finding the world’s top creative film talent in the UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow, has partnered with Screen Scotland and will select ten up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers who are on the cusp of their first major professional breakthrough. Chosen Stars will either be originally from or currently living in Scotland.
To apply please use this Google Form.
- 6/10/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Critics’ Week entry previously sold for the UK, France, Germany and other markets.
A24 has acquired North American rights to Aftersun, the Paul Mescal drama that screened last week in the Cannes Critics’ Week.
The directing debut of Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells, Aftersun stars Normal People breakout Mescal with newcomer Frankie Corio in the story of a woman reflecting on her relationship with her father by watching home video footage of a holiday they took 20 years before.
Earlier this week the film was picked up by Mubi for theatrical distribution in UK-Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Latin America,...
A24 has acquired North American rights to Aftersun, the Paul Mescal drama that screened last week in the Cannes Critics’ Week.
The directing debut of Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells, Aftersun stars Normal People breakout Mescal with newcomer Frankie Corio in the story of a woman reflecting on her relationship with her father by watching home video footage of a holiday they took 20 years before.
Earlier this week the film was picked up by Mubi for theatrical distribution in UK-Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Latin America,...
- 5/24/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
A24 has acquired the North American rights to “Aftersun,” Charlotte Wells’ drama that stars Paul Mescal and made its premiere at Cannes in the Critics’ Week section of the festival.
The film is Wells’ directorial debut and also stars newcomer Frankie Corio.
“Aftersun” has proven to be a real tearjerker and a critical darling out of Cannes among many highlights thus far. The film follows Corio as Sophie, a girl on a melancholy holiday with her young father, played by Mescal. The film shows Sophie as an adult reflecting on memories both real and imagined as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
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Carlos Aguilar in his review for TheWrap called it a “heart-achingly stirring and sensorially entrancing debut feature” from Wells, who also wrote the script.
The film is Wells’ directorial debut and also stars newcomer Frankie Corio.
“Aftersun” has proven to be a real tearjerker and a critical darling out of Cannes among many highlights thus far. The film follows Corio as Sophie, a girl on a melancholy holiday with her young father, played by Mescal. The film shows Sophie as an adult reflecting on memories both real and imagined as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
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Carlos Aguilar in his review for TheWrap called it a “heart-achingly stirring and sensorially entrancing debut feature” from Wells, who also wrote the script.
- 5/24/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
A24 has snapped up the Paul Mescal-led tearjerker “Aftersun” out of the Cannes Film Festival.
The distributor has picked up North American rights for the movie, which premiered as part of Cannes’ Critics’ Week section to rave reviews last week.
The movie, directed by Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells in her feature directorial debut, stars Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio as a young father and his 11-year-old daughter who are on holiday at a resort in Turkey in the late 1990s. Framed as a look back at a father-daughter holiday in the late 1990s, with occasional mini Dv footage adding to the period texture, the film is an ode to nostalgia with hints of something far darker.
Variety critic Guy Lodge said of “Aftersun”: “Ambitiously and poignantly, ‘Aftersun’ explores the oddly intimate chasm between parent and child, the latter forever playing catch-up to the former’s inner life, except on the brief occasions — like,...
The distributor has picked up North American rights for the movie, which premiered as part of Cannes’ Critics’ Week section to rave reviews last week.
The movie, directed by Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells in her feature directorial debut, stars Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio as a young father and his 11-year-old daughter who are on holiday at a resort in Turkey in the late 1990s. Framed as a look back at a father-daughter holiday in the late 1990s, with occasional mini Dv footage adding to the period texture, the film is an ode to nostalgia with hints of something far darker.
Variety critic Guy Lodge said of “Aftersun”: “Ambitiously and poignantly, ‘Aftersun’ explores the oddly intimate chasm between parent and child, the latter forever playing catch-up to the former’s inner life, except on the brief occasions — like,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
A24 has won North American rights to Charlotte Wells’ Cannes buzz title Aftersun.
The film stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio. Wells’ directorial debut premiered to a rapturous response in Cannes’ Critic’s Week. Indiewire first reported on the deal.
Pic follows Sophie who reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
The film is produced by Adele Romanski, Barry Jenkins and Mark Ceryak for Pastel and Amy Jackson for Unified Theory.
There is also a quiet battle going on among agents for the signature of filmmaker Wells.
Pic was financed by BBC Film, BFI (awarding National Lottery funding) and Screen Scotland, in association with Tango. The feature was developed with BBC Film. Executive producers...
The film stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio. Wells’ directorial debut premiered to a rapturous response in Cannes’ Critic’s Week. Indiewire first reported on the deal.
Pic follows Sophie who reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
The film is produced by Adele Romanski, Barry Jenkins and Mark Ceryak for Pastel and Amy Jackson for Unified Theory.
There is also a quiet battle going on among agents for the signature of filmmaker Wells.
Pic was financed by BBC Film, BFI (awarding National Lottery funding) and Screen Scotland, in association with Tango. The feature was developed with BBC Film. Executive producers...
- 5/24/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A24 is staying in the Paul Mescal business.
The studio that also shepherded the “Normal People” actor’s Directors’ Fortnight entry “God’s Creatures” has acquired North American rights for Charlotte Wells’ well-liked Critics’ Week entry “Aftersun,” IndieWire has learned. A source close to the film’s production confirmed that the studio bought rights to release the drama in the U.S. and Canada in a deal in Cannes on Monday. The buy is said to be in the mid-seven-figure range. (The news was later confirmed by A24.)
“Aftersun,” a standout from the Critics’ Week sidebar that annually promotes first- and second-time directors, stars Mescal as a father on a melancholy holiday with his 11-year-old daughter Sophie, played by Francesca Corio, in Turkey in the late 1990s. Sophie, in the present day, is reflecting on the holiday they shared two decades prior. Memories real and imaginary collide, filling the gaps between...
The studio that also shepherded the “Normal People” actor’s Directors’ Fortnight entry “God’s Creatures” has acquired North American rights for Charlotte Wells’ well-liked Critics’ Week entry “Aftersun,” IndieWire has learned. A source close to the film’s production confirmed that the studio bought rights to release the drama in the U.S. and Canada in a deal in Cannes on Monday. The buy is said to be in the mid-seven-figure range. (The news was later confirmed by A24.)
“Aftersun,” a standout from the Critics’ Week sidebar that annually promotes first- and second-time directors, stars Mescal as a father on a melancholy holiday with his 11-year-old daughter Sophie, played by Francesca Corio, in Turkey in the late 1990s. Sophie, in the present day, is reflecting on the holiday they shared two decades prior. Memories real and imaginary collide, filling the gaps between...
- 5/24/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Screen will select ten up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers.
Screen International, in association with Screen Scotland, today announces a major new talent spotlight for Scottish filmmakers. The collaboration is Rising Stars: Scotland, a programme that will identify and promote the next generation of Scottish film talent to the international industry.
Screen International, with almost two decades of finding the world’s top creative film talent in the UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow, will select ten up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers who are on the cusp of their first major professional breakthrough. Chosen Stars will either be...
Screen International, in association with Screen Scotland, today announces a major new talent spotlight for Scottish filmmakers. The collaboration is Rising Stars: Scotland, a programme that will identify and promote the next generation of Scottish film talent to the international industry.
Screen International, with almost two decades of finding the world’s top creative film talent in the UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow, will select ten up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers who are on the cusp of their first major professional breakthrough. Chosen Stars will either be...
- 5/22/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
New York-based Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells’ feature debut “Aftersun,” premiering at Cannes Critics’ Week, aims to achieve a balance of joy and melancholia in equal measure.
Framed as a look back at a father-daughter holiday at a Turkish resort in the late 1990s, with occasional mini Dv footage adding to the period texture, the film is an ode to nostalgia with hints of something far darker.
Wells’ first short, “Tuesday” (2015), was about the loss of her father, which happened when she was a teenager. “I wanted to explore a different period in that relationship, like a young father and his daughter on holiday. Even just visually having a young parent, like a young man and his daughter, it just felt like it could be something interesting and fun and compelling,” Wells told Variety.
The script began in a different form in that it was more conventional and plot-driven, and the more she worked on it,...
Framed as a look back at a father-daughter holiday at a Turkish resort in the late 1990s, with occasional mini Dv footage adding to the period texture, the film is an ode to nostalgia with hints of something far darker.
Wells’ first short, “Tuesday” (2015), was about the loss of her father, which happened when she was a teenager. “I wanted to explore a different period in that relationship, like a young father and his daughter on holiday. Even just visually having a young parent, like a young man and his daughter, it just felt like it could be something interesting and fun and compelling,” Wells told Variety.
The script began in a different form in that it was more conventional and plot-driven, and the more she worked on it,...
- 5/21/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Further territories include Germany, Latin America, Italy.
Mubi has acquired rights for Screen Star of Tomorrow Thomas Hardiman’s feature debut Medusa Deluxe, for major territories including UK-Ireland, Germany, Latin America and Italy.
It has also taken rights for Switzerland, Turkey, India and Southeast Asia. Mubi has committed to a theatrical release for UK-Ireland.
Medusa Deluxe is a murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing competition. The death of one of the community sows divisions in a group whose passion for hair verges on obsession.
The cast includes Clare Perkins, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Kae Alexander, Harriet Webb, Darrell D’Silva and Luke Pasqualino,...
Mubi has acquired rights for Screen Star of Tomorrow Thomas Hardiman’s feature debut Medusa Deluxe, for major territories including UK-Ireland, Germany, Latin America and Italy.
It has also taken rights for Switzerland, Turkey, India and Southeast Asia. Mubi has committed to a theatrical release for UK-Ireland.
Medusa Deluxe is a murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing competition. The death of one of the community sows divisions in a group whose passion for hair verges on obsession.
The cast includes Clare Perkins, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Kae Alexander, Harriet Webb, Darrell D’Silva and Luke Pasqualino,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Acquisition
BBC Three has acquired 10 x 45′ hit HBO Max reality dating competition show “FBoy Island” from Warner Bros International Television production. Created by Elan Gale and hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, “FBoy Island” follows the adventures of Sarah, Nakia and C.J. – three women all looking to get into a serious relationship with men who really care about them. The good news is they have 24 guys to choose from, the bad news is only half of them are interested in forming a relationship, while the other half are self-confessed bad boys only there to win a cash prize.
Fiona Campbell, controller BBC Three, said: “This series completely flips the dating show concept on its head which makes it fun and captivating viewing. It has a lot of humor and heart and although it shouldn’t be taken too seriously, it does leaves enough room for real romance. It’s already...
BBC Three has acquired 10 x 45′ hit HBO Max reality dating competition show “FBoy Island” from Warner Bros International Television production. Created by Elan Gale and hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, “FBoy Island” follows the adventures of Sarah, Nakia and C.J. – three women all looking to get into a serious relationship with men who really care about them. The good news is they have 24 guys to choose from, the bad news is only half of them are interested in forming a relationship, while the other half are self-confessed bad boys only there to win a cash prize.
Fiona Campbell, controller BBC Three, said: “This series completely flips the dating show concept on its head which makes it fun and captivating viewing. It has a lot of humor and heart and although it shouldn’t be taken too seriously, it does leaves enough room for real romance. It’s already...
- 4/7/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The BFI has named Louise Ortega as Senior Production and Development Executive for its Film Fund.
Ortega has had roles at companies including See-Saw Films, Vertigo Films and Slim Film and Television. At the BFI, she will work across both the development and production funds, accessing applications, recommending funding decisions and providing hands-on creative production support for filmmakers. Her portfolio will have a focus on debuts.
She will report to Natascha Wharton, the Fund’s Head of Editorial, and work alongside Senior Exec Kristin Irving, as well as Editor-at-Large Lizzie Francke and development executives Aoife Hayes and Phoebe Sutherland. The role replaces Farhana Bhula, who joined Film4 earlier this year.
Mia Bays, Director of the BFI Film Fund, said: “I am excited about Louise joining, bringing a wealth of experience and dynamism to round out the Film Fund team. She has a built up a real specialism around developing writers...
Ortega has had roles at companies including See-Saw Films, Vertigo Films and Slim Film and Television. At the BFI, she will work across both the development and production funds, accessing applications, recommending funding decisions and providing hands-on creative production support for filmmakers. Her portfolio will have a focus on debuts.
She will report to Natascha Wharton, the Fund’s Head of Editorial, and work alongside Senior Exec Kristin Irving, as well as Editor-at-Large Lizzie Francke and development executives Aoife Hayes and Phoebe Sutherland. The role replaces Farhana Bhula, who joined Film4 earlier this year.
Mia Bays, Director of the BFI Film Fund, said: “I am excited about Louise joining, bringing a wealth of experience and dynamism to round out the Film Fund team. She has a built up a real specialism around developing writers...
- 4/7/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The post was vacated by Farhana Bhula.
Louise Ortega has been appointed the new senior production and development executive for the BFI Film Fund.
She joins following a short-term contract at See-Saw Films, where she oversaw the film slate including Operation Mincemeat and upcoming projects A Special Relationship and One Life. Across a 20-year career she has worked in talent management, development and script editing, with previous roles at BBC Film, Vertigo Films and Slim Film And Television.
Ortega takes over from Farhana Bhula, who joined Film4 as a senior commissioning executive in January.
At the BFI Film Fund, Ortega...
Louise Ortega has been appointed the new senior production and development executive for the BFI Film Fund.
She joins following a short-term contract at See-Saw Films, where she oversaw the film slate including Operation Mincemeat and upcoming projects A Special Relationship and One Life. Across a 20-year career she has worked in talent management, development and script editing, with previous roles at BBC Film, Vertigo Films and Slim Film And Television.
Ortega takes over from Farhana Bhula, who joined Film4 as a senior commissioning executive in January.
At the BFI Film Fund, Ortega...
- 4/7/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
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