Exclusive: Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) and Eliza Scanlen (Sharp Objects) have landed the lead roles in the BBC’s upcoming crime drama series Dope Girls, we can reveal.
Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher and Geraldine James have also landed major parts in the series, which we first told you about back in March. At the time, our sources said the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, which ended last year.
Filming on the show, which is set in London’s Soho in the early 20th century, when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine, is now underway. It will launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and comes from Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor).
Nicholson will play Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a life...
Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher and Geraldine James have also landed major parts in the series, which we first told you about back in March. At the time, our sources said the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, which ended last year.
Filming on the show, which is set in London’s Soho in the early 20th century, when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine, is now underway. It will launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and comes from Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor).
Nicholson will play Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a life...
- 11/15/2023
- by Rosy Cordero, Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Pontikos won for her work on Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’.
Ula Pontikus has become the sixth winner of the National Film and Television School (Nfts)’s annual Sue Gibson Bsc Award for cinematography, for her work on Netflix show Russian Doll.
Pontikos previously received a Primetime Emmy nomination for her Russian Doll work; she also recently wrapped Showtime series Three Women starring Shailene Woodley.
The cinematographer’s feature credits include Hong Khaou’s Lilting, debbie tucker green’s Second Coming and Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool.
She had been nominated twice previously, for Film Stars…...
Ula Pontikus has become the sixth winner of the National Film and Television School (Nfts)’s annual Sue Gibson Bsc Award for cinematography, for her work on Netflix show Russian Doll.
Pontikos previously received a Primetime Emmy nomination for her Russian Doll work; she also recently wrapped Showtime series Three Women starring Shailene Woodley.
The cinematographer’s feature credits include Hong Khaou’s Lilting, debbie tucker green’s Second Coming and Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool.
She had been nominated twice previously, for Film Stars…...
- 10/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Previous winners include Roger Deakins, Annika Summerson.
Heartstopper cinematographer Diana Olifirova is one of five nominees for the National Film and Television School’s 2022 Sue Gibson Bsc Cinematography Award.
Two of this year’s selection are on their second nomination – Ula Pontikos, for season two of Russian Doll; and Edu Grau, for Rebecca Hall’s Bafta-nominated Passing.
The other nominees are Nick Cooke for Ben Sharrock’s Limbo; and Paul Kadir Ozgur for Pascual Sisto’s John And The Hole.
This year is the sixth edition of the award, which recognises work by an alumnus of the cinematography course at the UK film school.
Heartstopper cinematographer Diana Olifirova is one of five nominees for the National Film and Television School’s 2022 Sue Gibson Bsc Cinematography Award.
Two of this year’s selection are on their second nomination – Ula Pontikos, for season two of Russian Doll; and Edu Grau, for Rebecca Hall’s Bafta-nominated Passing.
The other nominees are Nick Cooke for Ben Sharrock’s Limbo; and Paul Kadir Ozgur for Pascual Sisto’s John And The Hole.
This year is the sixth edition of the award, which recognises work by an alumnus of the cinematography course at the UK film school.
- 9/1/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
It’s our favourite night of the year! The 2021 BIFA awards took place this evening at Old Billingsgate in London. Hosted by People Just Do Nothing’s Asim Chaudhry, those attending include Emma Corrin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton, Jude Law, Harris Dickinson, Paapa Essiedu, Caitriona Balfe, Morfydd Clark, Riz Ahmed, Wumni Mosaku, Ruth Wilson, Stephen Graham and James Norton.
The 24th British Independent Film Awards saw Joanna Scanlan’s After Love take home a handful of awards, Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava also did well – and there’s something wonderful in championing the very best in British Independent film – so, hey – we’re all winners here.*
David Sztypuljak and Scott Davis were our men at the event, asking questions.
You can see our interviews below, as well as a full list of tonight’s winners and nominees.
*Actual winners are below.
The 2021 BIFA Red Carpet Interviews
The...
The 24th British Independent Film Awards saw Joanna Scanlan’s After Love take home a handful of awards, Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava also did well – and there’s something wonderful in championing the very best in British Independent film – so, hey – we’re all winners here.*
David Sztypuljak and Scott Davis were our men at the event, asking questions.
You can see our interviews below, as well as a full list of tonight’s winners and nominees.
*Actual winners are below.
The 2021 BIFA Red Carpet Interviews
The...
- 12/6/2021
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Sue Bruce-Smith scholarship was announced at the Nfts’ 50th anniversary fundraising gala.
Film4 and the National Film and Television School (Nfts) are launching the Sue Bruce-Smith scholarship in honour of the late Film4 deputy director, an influential figure in the UK’s independent film scene who died in May 2020.
Established with an initial £50,000 donation from Film4, the Sue Bruce-Smith Scholarship was announced at the Nfts’ 50th anniversary fundraising gala on September 7 in London. It will commemorate Bruce-Smith’s achievements and pioneering contribution to the UK film industry.
The scholarship is earmarked for emerging producers and will enable prospective students...
Film4 and the National Film and Television School (Nfts) are launching the Sue Bruce-Smith scholarship in honour of the late Film4 deputy director, an influential figure in the UK’s independent film scene who died in May 2020.
Established with an initial £50,000 donation from Film4, the Sue Bruce-Smith Scholarship was announced at the Nfts’ 50th anniversary fundraising gala on September 7 in London. It will commemorate Bruce-Smith’s achievements and pioneering contribution to the UK film industry.
The scholarship is earmarked for emerging producers and will enable prospective students...
- 9/7/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Previous winners include Roger Deakins, Charlotte Bruus Christensen.
Swedish cinematographer Annika Summerson has won the National Film and Television School (Nfts)’s Sue Gibson Bsc Award for cinematography, for her work on Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli.
Nfts alumna Summerson is the fifth winner of the award from the UK film school, joining previous winners Charlotte Bruus Christensen, Roger Deakins, Jakob Ihre and last year’s winner Natasha Braier.
The award was established in memory of Nfts alumna Gibson, who was the first woman to be invited to join the British Society of Cinematographers and its first female president.
Summerson...
Swedish cinematographer Annika Summerson has won the National Film and Television School (Nfts)’s Sue Gibson Bsc Award for cinematography, for her work on Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli.
Nfts alumna Summerson is the fifth winner of the award from the UK film school, joining previous winners Charlotte Bruus Christensen, Roger Deakins, Jakob Ihre and last year’s winner Natasha Braier.
The award was established in memory of Nfts alumna Gibson, who was the first woman to be invited to join the British Society of Cinematographers and its first female president.
Summerson...
- 9/7/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley | Written by Prano Bailey-Bond, Anthony Fletcher | Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond
Debut director Prano Bailey-Bond adapts her acclaimed short film Nasty into this feature length British horror set at the height of the panic over “video nasties”. Stylish and richly atmospheric, Censor represents a strong calling card for Bailey-Bond, who also co-wrote the script with Anthony Fletcher.
Rising star Niamh Algar plays Enid, a censor working at the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) in 1985, whose days are spent watching gory horror films and arguing with her colleagues over what needs to be cut out. When she watches a film called Don’t Go Into the Church, Enid becomes increasingly unsettled, because certain scenes trigger memories of her own repressed trauma, when her younger sister Nina suddenly disappeared while they were playing in a forest as children.
Debut director Prano Bailey-Bond adapts her acclaimed short film Nasty into this feature length British horror set at the height of the panic over “video nasties”. Stylish and richly atmospheric, Censor represents a strong calling card for Bailey-Bond, who also co-wrote the script with Anthony Fletcher.
Rising star Niamh Algar plays Enid, a censor working at the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) in 1985, whose days are spent watching gory horror films and arguing with her colleagues over what needs to be cut out. When she watches a film called Don’t Go Into the Church, Enid becomes increasingly unsettled, because certain scenes trigger memories of her own repressed trauma, when her younger sister Nina suddenly disappeared while they were playing in a forest as children.
- 8/3/2021
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Award nominees include previous Bifa and Bafta nominees.
Annika Summerson, Benjamin Kracun and Alwin H. Kuchler are among the nominees for the 2021 Sue Gibson Cinematography award presented by the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The annual award marks its fifth edition, after being first established in 2016 in honour of the late Nfts alumna Sue Gibson who passed away in the same year.
The nominees are:
Annika Summerson for Mogul Mowgli Benjamin Kracun for Promising Young Woman David Katznelson for It’s A Sin James Blann for Feel Good Alwin H. Kuchler for The Mauritanian
Summerson was nominated...
Annika Summerson, Benjamin Kracun and Alwin H. Kuchler are among the nominees for the 2021 Sue Gibson Cinematography award presented by the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The annual award marks its fifth edition, after being first established in 2016 in honour of the late Nfts alumna Sue Gibson who passed away in the same year.
The nominees are:
Annika Summerson for Mogul Mowgli Benjamin Kracun for Promising Young Woman David Katznelson for It’s A Sin James Blann for Feel Good Alwin H. Kuchler for The Mauritanian
Summerson was nominated...
- 8/2/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
In the early 1980s, as Britain took a rightward turn that mirrored America’s own shift, the country’s bastions of righteousness took aim at the nascent videocassette market. Before home video releases were placed under the purview of the British Board of Film Classification, the job of protecting Britons from gory practical effects fell to the Director of Public Prosecutions. That office ultimately compiled a list of 72 films it believed were in violation of the country’s Obscene Publications Act. Films on the list became known as “video nasties.” Cinematographer Annika Summerson has seen her fair share of them. That’s largely […]
The post “If You’re Not Scared of an Old Short End, Then You Can Have It”: Dp Annika Summerson on Censor first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “If You’re Not Scared of an Old Short End, Then You Can Have It”: Dp Annika Summerson on Censor first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 6/10/2021
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
In the early 1980s, as Britain took a rightward turn that mirrored America’s own shift, the country’s bastions of righteousness took aim at the nascent videocassette market. Before home video releases were placed under the purview of the British Board of Film Classification, the job of protecting Britons from gory practical effects fell to the Director of Public Prosecutions. That office ultimately compiled a list of 72 films it believed were in violation of the country’s Obscene Publications Act. Films on the list became known as “video nasties.” Cinematographer Annika Summerson has seen her fair share of them. That’s largely […]
The post “If You’re Not Scared of an Old Short End, Then You Can Have It”: Dp Annika Summerson on Censor first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “If You’re Not Scared of an Old Short End, Then You Can Have It”: Dp Annika Summerson on Censor first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 6/10/2021
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Welsh helmer Prano Bailey-Bond didn’t call herself a horror director until someone beat her to it. “I didn’t realize I was one for a long time,” she says. As a teenager she was obsessed with David Lynch, Harmony Korine and Quentin Tarantino; college added a Douglas Sirk fixation to the mix.
“I loved dark worlds, dark minds, characters who were slightly repressed, but not just in one genre. Then the first short I made was about this god-fearing woman who hasn’t really lived, and ends up cutting a child’s heart out and eating it. As you do,” she jokes. “Some time later, I had submitted for a funding application, and they phoned me up and said, ‘We see you’re a horror director and we have a script to show you.’ But that was the first time I’d thought of myself that way.”
With her debut feature “Censor,...
“I loved dark worlds, dark minds, characters who were slightly repressed, but not just in one genre. Then the first short I made was about this god-fearing woman who hasn’t really lived, and ends up cutting a child’s heart out and eating it. As you do,” she jokes. “Some time later, I had submitted for a funding application, and they phoned me up and said, ‘We see you’re a horror director and we have a script to show you.’ But that was the first time I’d thought of myself that way.”
With her debut feature “Censor,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Above: Carlson Young’s The Blazing World Midnight screenings are my personal haven at festivals. Whenever main competitions start to feel a bit weary, I gladly deflect to genre-driven sessions for a sharper edge and a quickened pulse. At the same time, the competitions have also made some welcome room for genre (consider Parasite or Bacurau), which serves as a reminder that horror has always been well suited not only to bold narrative leaps and visual experimentation, but also to a social and cultural critique. This proclivity continues in the recent electrifying horror movies by Jordan Peele (Get Out and Us), and by indie women directors. I’m thinking particularly of Amy Seimetz’s stellar I Die Tomorrow, which was originally scheduled to premiere at SXSW, in 2020, and Rose Glass’s Saint Maud, an absolute find at TIFF, in 2019, which is finally getting recognition in the UK, and was just released in the US.
- 2/23/2021
- MUBI
IndieWire reached out to the cinematographers behind the scripted narrative features premiering this week at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival to find out which cameras, lenses, and formats they used, and why they chose them to create the looks and meet the production demands of their films. Here are their responses.
Films appear in alphabetical order by title.
“Censor”
Section: Midnight
Dir: Prano Bailey-Bond, DoP: Annika Summerson
Format: 35mm Kodak 5219 and 5207, Sony 4K X-ocn
Camera: Arricam Lt& St, Sony Venice
Lens: Canon K-35
Summerson: I shot a short film with “Censor” director Prano Bailey-Bond called “Nasty” on s16mm years ago which was the calling card for this feature so we already had it in our minds to shoot on film, 35mm if possible. Both because we love the organic look and the texture of film, and also because it’s set in the 1980’s and pays homage to the video nasties of the time.
Films appear in alphabetical order by title.
“Censor”
Section: Midnight
Dir: Prano Bailey-Bond, DoP: Annika Summerson
Format: 35mm Kodak 5219 and 5207, Sony 4K X-ocn
Camera: Arricam Lt& St, Sony Venice
Lens: Canon K-35
Summerson: I shot a short film with “Censor” director Prano Bailey-Bond called “Nasty” on s16mm years ago which was the calling card for this feature so we already had it in our minds to shoot on film, 35mm if possible. Both because we love the organic look and the texture of film, and also because it’s set in the 1980’s and pays homage to the video nasties of the time.
- 1/29/2021
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
The premise of Prano Bailey-Bond’s Sundance Midnight selection opener is so strong that it’s little wonder the film can’t quite live up — or perhaps down — to it: In a Thatcher’s Britain riven by tabloid-fueled “video nasty” hysteria, a young woman working for the national censorship board is assessing a horror flick, when it triggers sudden flashbacks to a traumatic, amnesiac episode in her own life. Given the ongoing debates around censorship — and its trendier 2020s companion, “cancellation” — and the relationship between screen violence and its real-life counterpart, not to mention the grungy exploitation aesthetic of the no-budget films it references, “Censor” dangles the prospect of topical, ticklish provocation that will prove offensive to some sensibilities. And offense, in a time of pandemic numbness, is tantalizing in itself: at least you’re feeling something.
Initially, at least, “Censor” teases in that direction. The witty opening segues from snowy,...
Initially, at least, “Censor” teases in that direction. The witty opening segues from snowy,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Prano Bailey-Bond’s psychological horror “Censor,” which opens Sundance’s Midnight section Thursday, is a twisted, bloody love letter to the low-budget horror films of the 1980s. Variety spoke to the young British helmer, who was recently named as one of Variety’s “10 Directors to Watch.”
In “Censor,” a young woman, Enid, is seen at work as a film censor in Britain in the 1980s, a time when the growing popularity of VHS players had led to a boom in cheaply made horror films, which soon acquired the nickname “video nasties” in the tabloid press. After a gruesome killing, which the press claims was inspired by a horror film, Enid finds herself in the eye of a media storm, as she had passed the film for distribution.
Bailey-Bond places the media’s “hysterical reaction” to these “video nasties” against the backdrop of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, a time of social and political strife.
In “Censor,” a young woman, Enid, is seen at work as a film censor in Britain in the 1980s, a time when the growing popularity of VHS players had led to a boom in cheaply made horror films, which soon acquired the nickname “video nasties” in the tabloid press. After a gruesome killing, which the press claims was inspired by a horror film, Enid finds herself in the eye of a media storm, as she had passed the film for distribution.
Bailey-Bond places the media’s “hysterical reaction” to these “video nasties” against the backdrop of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, a time of social and political strife.
- 1/28/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Censor
Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond returns to genre for her directorial debut Censor, featuring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, and Ben Wheatley regular Michael Smiley in the cast. Produced by Helen Jones, the feature was lensed by Annika Summerson. Bailey-Bond generated a lot of attention for her 2015 short “Nasty.”
Gist: Co-written by Anthony Fletcher, film censor Enid stumbles upon a particularly eerie video nasty which she believes holds the key to her sister’s disappearance. Fantasy and reality are blurred as she embarks on a quest for answers through the film’s director.…...
Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond returns to genre for her directorial debut Censor, featuring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, and Ben Wheatley regular Michael Smiley in the cast. Produced by Helen Jones, the feature was lensed by Annika Summerson. Bailey-Bond generated a lot of attention for her 2015 short “Nasty.”
Gist: Co-written by Anthony Fletcher, film censor Enid stumbles upon a particularly eerie video nasty which she believes holds the key to her sister’s disappearance. Fantasy and reality are blurred as she embarks on a quest for answers through the film’s director.…...
- 1/1/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The last time festival audiences saw Riz Ahmed on screen, he was tearing it up on stage as a hedonistic hard-rocker before being plunged into emotional freefall by disability. As an American drummer slowly accepting the loss of his hearing in “Sound of Metal,” the British-Pakistani actor elucidated that painful arc with such furious, void-staring commitment that it’s a surprise to him completing it again in his very next film. In “Mogul Mowgli,” Ahmed plays a British-Pakistani rapper living in New York, felled on the eve of his big break by a severe illness that forces him to move back to London and take stock: The details have shifted a little closer to home, as you’d expect from a passion project co-written and produced by the star himself. If anything, Ahmed tears into it with even more wild-eyed magnetism.
Outside of Ahmed’s seething, spitting, can’t-look-away performance,...
Outside of Ahmed’s seething, spitting, can’t-look-away performance,...
- 2/21/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
What was it about Gavin Williams’s script for Await Further Instructions you liked so much, and what did you add to make it more personal to you?
Well, when I first read the script I thought: “How the hell am I going to make this!” It was like nothing I had ever seen before. I knew it was going to be a massive challenge in every way possible. Overall, this was a very unusual script and that also appealed to me. My main addition to the script was to push it in a much darker and serious tone overall, which is more my style of filmmaking. I’m pleased that I managed to retain the dark humour at the start but then move into a different and much more serious realm as things start getting nastier for the family.
God’S Own Country producer Jack Tarling thought of you...
Well, when I first read the script I thought: “How the hell am I going to make this!” It was like nothing I had ever seen before. I knew it was going to be a massive challenge in every way possible. Overall, this was a very unusual script and that also appealed to me. My main addition to the script was to push it in a much darker and serious tone overall, which is more my style of filmmaking. I’m pleased that I managed to retain the dark humour at the start but then move into a different and much more serious realm as things start getting nastier for the family.
God’S Own Country producer Jack Tarling thought of you...
- 8/21/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Boy from Mushin
Logline: “The Boy from Mushin” tells the story of Bisi Alimi, who risked his life when he came out as gay live on Nigerian television.
Elevator Pitch:
“The Boy From Mushin” is a feature length documentary that follows Bisi Alimi, who was raised in one of Nigeria’s poorest slums. He fled persecution to become one of the most influential African Lgbt and Human Rights activists. Bisi risked his life when he came out as gay live on national television. After enduring three years of violent attacks, he fled to London. The film charts Bisi’s journey...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Boy from Mushin
Logline: “The Boy from Mushin” tells the story of Bisi Alimi, who risked his life when he came out as gay live on Nigerian television.
Elevator Pitch:
“The Boy From Mushin” is a feature length documentary that follows Bisi Alimi, who was raised in one of Nigeria’s poorest slums. He fled persecution to become one of the most influential African Lgbt and Human Rights activists. Bisi risked his life when he came out as gay live on national television. After enduring three years of violent attacks, he fled to London. The film charts Bisi’s journey...
- 8/2/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
In this round-up we have two exclusive excerpts from horror-thrillers. First up is Neil Gibson's graphic novel Twisted Dark Vol. 5, followed by Vaughn Entwistle's The Angel of Highgate. Also: five new images from Await Further Instructions.
Twisted Dark Volume Five: "Twisted Dark is a series of interconnected psychological thrillers, perfect for fans of twist endings and comics that reveal more on the second reading. Each story stands alone, but the more you read, the more connections you see between the characters. There are over 100 characters that appear more than once and one of the joys of reading is when you spot a reference that you know others will have missed. A rotating team of talented artists draw the stories, with each style offering something new."
Twisted Dark Vol. 5 will be released by TPub Comics in February. To read the first half of Twisted Dark Volume 1, visit: http://goo.gl/Zo...
Twisted Dark Volume Five: "Twisted Dark is a series of interconnected psychological thrillers, perfect for fans of twist endings and comics that reveal more on the second reading. Each story stands alone, but the more you read, the more connections you see between the characters. There are over 100 characters that appear more than once and one of the joys of reading is when you spot a reference that you know others will have missed. A rotating team of talented artists draw the stories, with each style offering something new."
Twisted Dark Vol. 5 will be released by TPub Comics in February. To read the first half of Twisted Dark Volume 1, visit: http://goo.gl/Zo...
- 12/1/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
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