The fund will re-open for a third round on January 9.
The Uncertain Kingdom development fund – a scheme that aims to address the challenges of filmmakers creating sustainable careers having previously made a feature – has named the projects that are to receive support from its second round of funding, including a documentary exploring the life of late UK politician Mo Mowlam.
The fund was set up originally in 2019 as a short film initiative, led my director and co-founder of UK production outfit Electric Shadow Company John Jencks, along with development executives Isabel Freer and Georgia Goggin, with 21 directors taking part to...
The Uncertain Kingdom development fund – a scheme that aims to address the challenges of filmmakers creating sustainable careers having previously made a feature – has named the projects that are to receive support from its second round of funding, including a documentary exploring the life of late UK politician Mo Mowlam.
The fund was set up originally in 2019 as a short film initiative, led my director and co-founder of UK production outfit Electric Shadow Company John Jencks, along with development executives Isabel Freer and Georgia Goggin, with 21 directors taking part to...
- 12/16/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Festival
The second edition of the Ponta Lopud Festival (June 22-27) on the island of Lopud, near Dubrovnik, Croatia, will feature masterclasses from Oscar winners Frances McDormand and Joel Coen. “At this point in our professional lives, we can’t think of a better way to spend the warm days of summer than in conversation about the process of filmmaking and the love of film watching with a group of other filmmakers on an island in the Adriatic Sea,” said McDormand and Coen.
Participants at this year’s edition include filmmakers Tamara Kotevska (“Honeyland”), Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (“Murina), Una Gunjak (“Chicken”), and actor Gordan Bogdan (“Fargo”). There will also be lectures by director Juho Kuosmanen, producer Peter Spears and talent agent Brian Swardstrom and conversations between masters and participants moderated by special guests, directors Pawel Pawlikowski, Michel Franco, Lili Horvat, Danis Tanovic and Ognjen Glavonic.
The founders of the Ponta Lopud Festival are Miro Purivatra,...
The second edition of the Ponta Lopud Festival (June 22-27) on the island of Lopud, near Dubrovnik, Croatia, will feature masterclasses from Oscar winners Frances McDormand and Joel Coen. “At this point in our professional lives, we can’t think of a better way to spend the warm days of summer than in conversation about the process of filmmaking and the love of film watching with a group of other filmmakers on an island in the Adriatic Sea,” said McDormand and Coen.
Participants at this year’s edition include filmmakers Tamara Kotevska (“Honeyland”), Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (“Murina), Una Gunjak (“Chicken”), and actor Gordan Bogdan (“Fargo”). There will also be lectures by director Juho Kuosmanen, producer Peter Spears and talent agent Brian Swardstrom and conversations between masters and participants moderated by special guests, directors Pawel Pawlikowski, Michel Franco, Lili Horvat, Danis Tanovic and Ognjen Glavonic.
The founders of the Ponta Lopud Festival are Miro Purivatra,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
35 international documentary projects include 11 first-time feature directors.
New works from Mark Cousins and Cow producer Kat Mansoor are among 35 documentary projects selected for Sheffield DocFest’s MeetMarket pitching forum, which returns as an in-person event for 2022 from June 27-28.
The event will run in-person for the first time since 2019; and will continue online in the days following the festival. The selected titles are a mixture of theatrical features, and projects being made for television.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Cousins is presenting UK title A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things, produced by Adam Dawtrey and Mary Bell.
New works from Mark Cousins and Cow producer Kat Mansoor are among 35 documentary projects selected for Sheffield DocFest’s MeetMarket pitching forum, which returns as an in-person event for 2022 from June 27-28.
The event will run in-person for the first time since 2019; and will continue online in the days following the festival. The selected titles are a mixture of theatrical features, and projects being made for television.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Cousins is presenting UK title A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things, produced by Adam Dawtrey and Mary Bell.
- 4/28/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
35 international documentary projects include 11 first-time feature directors.
New works from Mark Cousins and Cow producer Kat Mansoor are among 35 documentary projects selected for Sheffield DocFest’s MeetMarket pitching forum, which returns as an in-person event for 2022 from June 27-28.
The event will run in-person for the first time since 2019; and will continue online in the days following the festival. The selected titles are a mixture of theatrical features, and projects being made for television.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Northern Irish filmmaker Cousins is presenting UK title A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things, produced by Adam Dawtrey and Mary Bell.
New works from Mark Cousins and Cow producer Kat Mansoor are among 35 documentary projects selected for Sheffield DocFest’s MeetMarket pitching forum, which returns as an in-person event for 2022 from June 27-28.
The event will run in-person for the first time since 2019; and will continue online in the days following the festival. The selected titles are a mixture of theatrical features, and projects being made for television.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Northern Irish filmmaker Cousins is presenting UK title A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things, produced by Adam Dawtrey and Mary Bell.
- 4/28/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The panel will offer guidance on BFI Audience Fund applications.
A group of experts will now oversee all applications to the BFI Audience Fund to ensure it supports “authentic portrayals of disability and visible difference” through a new Disability and Visible Difference Representation Panel.
Any film seeking distribution support through the fund that has aspects of disability in the narrative, where a non-disabled actor portrays a disabled character, or where visible difference is used as a shorthand for negative representation, will be subject to review by the panel.
The model may be rolled out further to encompass all BFI funds.
A group of experts will now oversee all applications to the BFI Audience Fund to ensure it supports “authentic portrayals of disability and visible difference” through a new Disability and Visible Difference Representation Panel.
Any film seeking distribution support through the fund that has aspects of disability in the narrative, where a non-disabled actor portrays a disabled character, or where visible difference is used as a shorthand for negative representation, will be subject to review by the panel.
The model may be rolled out further to encompass all BFI funds.
- 12/2/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Rising UK talent awarded £60,000 to support their careers.
Two UK directors with a disability are among the second round of the Film and TV Charity’s John Brabourne recipients for 2020.
The talent development grant, totalling £60,000, is presented to a 12-strong cohort of UK writers, directors, and producers.
See below for full list
The award, which runs twice a year, provides up to £5,000 to cover expenses ranging from development to training, production and living costs, and is aimed at helping upcoming talent overcome barriers, realise career-changing projects and take vital next steps in the industry.
Among the latest recipients is Bim Ajadi,...
Two UK directors with a disability are among the second round of the Film and TV Charity’s John Brabourne recipients for 2020.
The talent development grant, totalling £60,000, is presented to a 12-strong cohort of UK writers, directors, and producers.
See below for full list
The award, which runs twice a year, provides up to £5,000 to cover expenses ranging from development to training, production and living costs, and is aimed at helping upcoming talent overcome barriers, realise career-changing projects and take vital next steps in the industry.
Among the latest recipients is Bim Ajadi,...
- 12/15/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Other new appointments include former BFI London Film Festival director Clare Stewart.
Bafta has announced a raft of new appointments to its film committee, including Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia and actor Riz Ahmed.
Kapadia, the filmmaker behind documentaries Amy and Senna, has been elected to the committee alongside Clare Stewart, a former director of the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare: London Lgbtqi+ Film Festival.
Ahmed, the Emmy award-winning star of The Night Of, Rogue One and Mogul Mowgli, has been appointed as a co-opted member, which are selected by the committee and approved by Bafta’s board.
Other...
Bafta has announced a raft of new appointments to its film committee, including Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia and actor Riz Ahmed.
Kapadia, the filmmaker behind documentaries Amy and Senna, has been elected to the committee alongside Clare Stewart, a former director of the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare: London Lgbtqi+ Film Festival.
Ahmed, the Emmy award-winning star of The Night Of, Rogue One and Mogul Mowgli, has been appointed as a co-opted member, which are selected by the committee and approved by Bafta’s board.
Other...
- 10/28/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The project will play as two feature-length volumes.
UK anthology film The Uncertain Kingdom has switched to an online release on June 1, following the cancellation of its April 3 theatrical launch due to coronavirus.
Released through Verve Pictures, the film will play as two feature-length volumes, available on BFI Player, iTunes, GooglePlay, Amazon Prime Video and Curzon Home Cinema.
Three of the 20 titles will premiere from May 18 via the BFI’s social media channels, in advance of the full launch. Those are David Proud’s Verisimilitude, Lanre Malaolu’s The Conversation, and Carol Salter’s Left Coast.
Verve Pictures said the...
UK anthology film The Uncertain Kingdom has switched to an online release on June 1, following the cancellation of its April 3 theatrical launch due to coronavirus.
Released through Verve Pictures, the film will play as two feature-length volumes, available on BFI Player, iTunes, GooglePlay, Amazon Prime Video and Curzon Home Cinema.
Three of the 20 titles will premiere from May 18 via the BFI’s social media channels, in advance of the full launch. Those are David Proud’s Verisimilitude, Lanre Malaolu’s The Conversation, and Carol Salter’s Left Coast.
Verve Pictures said the...
- 4/23/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Verve Pictures to distribute completed films at the end of the year.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
- 5/31/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
David Proud, who has broken ground as a disabled actor playing a wheelchair-using character on EastEnders, is now set for another first by playing an able-bodied character in psychological thriller iWitness.
Proud, who has Spina Bifida, stars in the project about miscommunication and distorted perceptions. “To me, iWitness is a game changer,” the actor said. “It is a British film making first. To have produced and starred in a film that I would have never even been auditioned for fills me with so much pride. It’s a gem of a film, but it’s the symbolism that I’m most proud of.”
104 Films, which champions film productions involving cast and crew with diabilities, produces. Steve Rainbow writes and directs.
Rainbow, who is based in the West Midlands, said: “The inspiration for the plot came from the opening of Rear Window but iWitness is more about modern day confusion caused by lack of information.”
Of Proud, Rainbow...
Proud, who has Spina Bifida, stars in the project about miscommunication and distorted perceptions. “To me, iWitness is a game changer,” the actor said. “It is a British film making first. To have produced and starred in a film that I would have never even been auditioned for fills me with so much pride. It’s a gem of a film, but it’s the symbolism that I’m most proud of.”
104 Films, which champions film productions involving cast and crew with diabilities, produces. Steve Rainbow writes and directs.
Rainbow, who is based in the West Midlands, said: “The inspiration for the plot came from the opening of Rear Window but iWitness is more about modern day confusion caused by lack of information.”
Of Proud, Rainbow...
- 10/27/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Comedian Rob Brydon and Tyrannosaur actor Eddie Marsan have been cast in BBC Paralympic drama Best of Men. The 90-minute feature tells the story of Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a German doctor whose use of sport to treat patients in the 1940s led to the birth of the Paralympic Games. Marsan will portray Guttmann, while Brydon stars as Sergeant Wynn Bowen - a paraplegic Welsh soldier whose life changes forever when he is admitted to the doctor's hospital. Birdsong's George MacKay, Niamh Cusack of Heartbeat and EastEnders actor David Proud, who suffers from spina bifida, will also (more)...
- 4/12/2012
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
Six 'EastEnders' stars have been axed. Long-serving actors Cliff Parisi and Derek Martin - who play mechanic Minty Peterson and show patriarch Charlie Slater respectively - were among the cast members told yesterday (16.04.10) their time on the BBC soap is coming to an end. The others to leave are Libby Fox, played by Belinda Owusu, her on-screen gran Liz Turner (Kate Williams) and boyfriend Adam Best (David Proud), as well as show newcomer Liam Bergin, who only joined as Danny Mitchell earlier this year. The decision was made by new executive producer Bryan Kirkwood and has reportedly sent fear through the rest ..
- 4/17/2010
- Virgin Media - TV
David Proud has vowed to stay in touch with his EastEnders screen mum Josie Lawrence. The comedian, who has filmed her last scenes as teacher Manda Best, announced her departure from the BBC One soap in November after an "amazing year" on set. Proud, who plays her son Adam, told the Pa that he is already missing working with his screen mum. "I really miss her and wish she was still there but she's an (more)...
- 2/7/2010
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
Comedienne Josie Lawrence is to leave EastEnders early next year, Digital Spy can exclusively reveal. The 50-year-old - who joined the BBC soap at the beginning of the year as pottery teacher Manda Best - will bow out of the show in the spring when her character discovers that boyfriend Minty Peterson (Cliff Parisi) is harbouring a "huge secret". Of her decision to leave, the former Whose Line Is It Anyway? star told Digital Spy: "It has been an amazing year at EastEnders and I have made some fantastic friends among both the cast and crew." She added: "I am somebody who likes to do a variety of different projects, and now seems the right time to move on." Manda returned to Walford in March following the breakdown of her marriage and her son Adam's (David Proud) departure for university. Despite her teen romance with Phil (more)...
- 11/16/2009
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
David Proud has revealed that he is thrilled by the response to his EastEnders debut. The 26-year-old actor made his first appearance as wheelchair user Adam Best on the BBC One soap earlier this month. His snobbish character is the programme's first permanent disabled adult part. Discussing the impact of his arrival, Proud told Peterborough Today: "The reception has been really, really positive. "I have been touched by a lot of the feedback from people. It's been a dream response." In real life, Proud has spina bifida, a birth defect which results in an incomplete (more)...
- 9/30/2009
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
EastEnders star David Proud has insisted that his disabled character must not become a "stereotype" on the soap. The actor, who was born with spina bifida and cannot walk unaided, made his debut as wheelchair user Adam Best last night. His role was first announced in June. Though Proud is the BBC One show's first ever adult disabled actor, he has confirmed that its writers will not be dwelling on the issue in Adam's forthcoming plots. Speaking to The Sun, the 26-year-old commented: "The BBC scriptwriters used my independent nature to shape their characterisation of Adam. They have purposely avoided making his disability a storyline." He continued: "Adam thinks his mother's boyfriend Minty isn't good enough for her and neither is the Queen Vic up to standard. Not (more)...
- 9/11/2009
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
BBC soap EastEnders has cast its first ever adult disabled actor. Wheelchair user David Proud will take on the role of Manda Best's (Josie Lawrence) son Adam, a 20-year-old self-obsessed, snobbish Oxford University student who arrives in Walford during the holidays to stay with his mother. Upon his arrival on the Square, Adam quickly forms a low opinion of Manda's boyfriend Minty (Cliff Parisi), while there's an intellectual meeting of minds as he's introduced to Libby Fox (Belinda Owusu). Both character and actor suffer from Spina Bifida, a developmental birth defect which results in an incomplete formation of the spinal cord. Speaking of his casting, the 26-year-old said: "I'm delighted and honoured to be joining such a talented cast. I'm very excited and looking forward to bringing the character to life." Executive producer (more)...
- 6/4/2009
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
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