Competition titles revealed; retrospectives of Ken Loach and Chantal Akerman; speakers include HBO documentaries president Sheila Nevins and revered filmmaker Da Pennebaker. Scroll down for competition films
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.
As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.
The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.
There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.
Competition titles...
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.
As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.
The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.
There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.
Competition titles...
- 5/5/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Competition titles revealed; retrospectives of Ken Loach and Chantal Akerman; speakers include HBO documentaries president Sheila Nevins and legendary filmmaker Da Pennebaker.Scroll down for competition films
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.
As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.
The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.
There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.
Competition titles...
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.
As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.
The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.
There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.
Competition titles...
- 5/5/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Organisers behind the Cannes Marché’s third Next event set to run from May 12-18 have lined up an expanded future of cinema showcase that places heavy emphasis on the fast-rising world of virtual reality.
For the first time Next events will take place at the entrance of the Village International on the Pantiero side – the site previously occupied by Canal+ – and will feature installations, interactive films, screenings, conferences and workshops on subjects such as big data, theatres of the future, and VOD opportunities.
The Next schedule will include 15 innovative companies that will conduct business at the Next Pavilion. Creative Wallonia and the Canadian Film Center will have their own corner. The full Next programme will be announced shortly.
Vr Days programme
The centerpiece is the Vr Days programme, a rich roster featuring work from the world’s leading exponents that takes place over May 15 and 16 and stems from a clamour by content creators to focus...
For the first time Next events will take place at the entrance of the Village International on the Pantiero side – the site previously occupied by Canal+ – and will feature installations, interactive films, screenings, conferences and workshops on subjects such as big data, theatres of the future, and VOD opportunities.
The Next schedule will include 15 innovative companies that will conduct business at the Next Pavilion. Creative Wallonia and the Canadian Film Center will have their own corner. The full Next programme will be announced shortly.
Vr Days programme
The centerpiece is the Vr Days programme, a rich roster featuring work from the world’s leading exponents that takes place over May 15 and 16 and stems from a clamour by content creators to focus...
- 4/20/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Swedish Film Institute has backed nineteen projects in its latest round of funding.
Swedish director Sanna Lenken, who won Berlin’s Crystal Bear in 2015 with My Skinny Sister, is now making a 30-minute short Night Child (Nattbarn), based on a graphic novel by Hanna Gustafsson.
The story is about 14-year-old girl Iggy “who lives a parallel online life to avoid the everyday tedium. A story about identity, sexuality, borderlands and friendship.”
The film is one of several new productions getting backing from the Swedish Film Institute. Others include Dome Karukoski’s anticipated new Tom Of Finland biopic [pictured] and Agnieszka Holland’s Polish drama Game Count.
Other projects backed, listed from highest investments, are:
Becoming Zlatan, wr/dirs Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten; prods Margarete Jangård, Lennart Ström. Documentary about charismatic footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. $246,000 (2m Sek)
Tom Of Finland, dir Dome Karukoski, wr Aleksi Bardy, prods Gunnar Carlsson, Emma Åkesdotter Ronge. Drama about the...
Swedish director Sanna Lenken, who won Berlin’s Crystal Bear in 2015 with My Skinny Sister, is now making a 30-minute short Night Child (Nattbarn), based on a graphic novel by Hanna Gustafsson.
The story is about 14-year-old girl Iggy “who lives a parallel online life to avoid the everyday tedium. A story about identity, sexuality, borderlands and friendship.”
The film is one of several new productions getting backing from the Swedish Film Institute. Others include Dome Karukoski’s anticipated new Tom Of Finland biopic [pictured] and Agnieszka Holland’s Polish drama Game Count.
Other projects backed, listed from highest investments, are:
Becoming Zlatan, wr/dirs Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten; prods Margarete Jangård, Lennart Ström. Documentary about charismatic footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. $246,000 (2m Sek)
Tom Of Finland, dir Dome Karukoski, wr Aleksi Bardy, prods Gunnar Carlsson, Emma Åkesdotter Ronge. Drama about the...
- 4/4/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Director Michael Moore will attend the festival for the first time since 1998.
Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore will attend this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) to open the festival with his latest polemic, Where To Invade Next.
The film, which will get its UK premiere at Doc/Fest’s 23rd edition on the same day it gets its UK release through Dogwoof, sees Moore play the role of invader as he tours the globe to learn how the Us can improve itself.
The director, returning to the festival for the first time since 1998, will take part in an on-stage interview following the screening.
This year’s Doc/Fest will also feature an in conversation event with actress and activist Joanna Lumley, who will recall her career in film and television at the city’s famous Crucible Theatre.
Known for her role as Patsy in comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, Lumley is also a seasoned documentary presenter, having...
Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore will attend this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) to open the festival with his latest polemic, Where To Invade Next.
The film, which will get its UK premiere at Doc/Fest’s 23rd edition on the same day it gets its UK release through Dogwoof, sees Moore play the role of invader as he tours the globe to learn how the Us can improve itself.
The director, returning to the festival for the first time since 1998, will take part in an on-stage interview following the screening.
This year’s Doc/Fest will also feature an in conversation event with actress and activist Joanna Lumley, who will recall her career in film and television at the city’s famous Crucible Theatre.
Known for her role as Patsy in comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, Lumley is also a seasoned documentary presenter, having...
- 3/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
James Spinney and Peter Middleton's Notes on Blindness isn't just an incredibly homage to blind theologian John Hull (who sadly died last year), the documentary is also a very profound demonstration of incredible work he did in making a bridge between sighted and blind culture possible. Having faced potential blindness for much of his life, the UK-based Australian university tutor was driven into feverishly turning major cultural texts into audio versions when he finally lost his sight and he also began fastidiously documenting his very personal journey in coming to terms with blindness through years' worth of audio tapes. His remarkable reflections on this experience were then transcribed into the book Touching the Rock, and fans of that book should not be disappointed by the...
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- 2/14/2016
- Screen Anarchy
An entry in the New Frontier program at Sundance 2016, Notes on Blindness began in 2013 as a four-minute short from writer/directors Pete Middleton and James Spinney. The film attempted to capture the sensory experience of blindness through the audio diary of John Hull, a writer and theologian who had lost his sight. The following year, Middleton and Spinney adapted Notes on Blindness into a longer New York Times Op-Doc. Now, they have adapted this story to a feature length. Below, Notes on Blindness Dp Gerry Floyd speaks to how he and the directors sought to offer a “sensory insight” into blindness. Filmmaker: How and […]...
- 1/30/2016
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
An entry in the New Frontier program at Sundance 2016, Notes on Blindness began in 2013 as a four-minute short from writer/directors Pete Middleton and James Spinney. The film attempted to capture the sensory experience of blindness through the audio diary of John Hull, a writer and theologian who had lost his sight. The following year, Middleton and Spinney adapted Notes on Blindness into a longer New York Times Op-Doc. Now, they have adapted this story to a feature length. Below, Notes on Blindness Dp Gerry Floyd speaks to how he and the directors sought to offer a “sensory insight” into blindness. Filmmaker: How and […]...
- 1/30/2016
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Istanbul event will host a total of 23 gala screenings, including the latest films from Charlie Kaufman and Jean-Marc Vallee, as well as a David Bowie tribute programme.Scroll down for the full line-up
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival has revealed its programme for the 2016 edition (February 18-28).
Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, which premiered at Telluride last year, and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, will open and close the festival respectively.
!f Istanbul - in its 15th edition - will host screenings, competitions and events dedicated to bringing the best of independent film to the Turkish city.
Other gala presentations will include Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, Gaspar Noé’s Love 3D, Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s BAFTA-nominated The Assassin.
In memory of the late musician David Bowie, the festival will show remastered versions of his films The Man Who Fell To Earth and The Hunger...
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival has revealed its programme for the 2016 edition (February 18-28).
Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, which premiered at Telluride last year, and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, will open and close the festival respectively.
!f Istanbul - in its 15th edition - will host screenings, competitions and events dedicated to bringing the best of independent film to the Turkish city.
Other gala presentations will include Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, Gaspar Noé’s Love 3D, Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s BAFTA-nominated The Assassin.
In memory of the late musician David Bowie, the festival will show remastered versions of his films The Man Who Fell To Earth and The Hunger...
- 1/29/2016
- ScreenDaily
Notes on Blindness is the kind of documentary that aims to be formally distinct — something I wish was standard for the art. The film does more than simply tell an interesting true story which the filmmakers stumbled upon. It uses that story as a jumping-off point to explore actual ideas — in this case, dealing with the loss of a sense, and how the experience of lacking this sense can be expressed cinematically.
When English theologian John Hull began losing his sight in middle age, he started narrating his life via tape recorder. Writers-directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney have edited these diaries, as well as interviews with Hull and his wife Marilyn, into an autobiography of sorts. (They initially created a short film, now been expanded into this feature.) In a manner similar to that of Clio Barnard’s masterpiece The Arbor, the audio is illustrated via extensive reenactment, with actors lip-synching the original dialogue.
When English theologian John Hull began losing his sight in middle age, he started narrating his life via tape recorder. Writers-directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney have edited these diaries, as well as interviews with Hull and his wife Marilyn, into an autobiography of sorts. (They initially created a short film, now been expanded into this feature.) In a manner similar to that of Clio Barnard’s masterpiece The Arbor, the audio is illustrated via extensive reenactment, with actors lip-synching the original dialogue.
- 1/25/2016
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
“I knew that if I didn’t understand blindness, it would destroy me.” Notes On Blindness follows the journey of writer and theologian John Hull, who began an audio diary after losing his sight in 1983 to help him make sense of the loss and upheaval it caused in his life. Following the Emmy-winning short film of the same name, Notes On Blindness takes a creative approach to the documentary form. Actors lip-synch to the voices of the family, embedding Hull's original audio…...
- 1/23/2016
- Deadline
My second trip to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah promises to be much colder, though no less exciting than last year’s unseasonably-warm introduction. You could barely hear yourself think over the constant roar of snow cannons trying to preserve the anemic ski slopes. This year finds a return to freezing temperatures and the emergence of female directors. Over 40 feature films are helmed by women.
My personal approach to this year’s festival will be to focus on diversity. Rather than plunging into one particular Section, I will sample generously from each, with no regard to the obscurity of the title. Last year’s Next Section, for example, produce three of my favorite films of 2015, including H., James White, and Tangerine. With that in mind, here are my 10 most anticipated films from Sundance 2016.
The Lure
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska
Section: World Dramatic Competition
What to make of a film that promises mermaids,...
My personal approach to this year’s festival will be to focus on diversity. Rather than plunging into one particular Section, I will sample generously from each, with no regard to the obscurity of the title. Last year’s Next Section, for example, produce three of my favorite films of 2015, including H., James White, and Tangerine. With that in mind, here are my 10 most anticipated films from Sundance 2016.
The Lure
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska
Section: World Dramatic Competition
What to make of a film that promises mermaids,...
- 1/14/2016
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
Exclusive: Starred Up and Snow In Paradise star leads cast in thriller from 104 Films.
Shooting is underway in Birmingham, UK, on noir thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up, Snow in Paradise), Ana Uluru (Serena) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Mummy).
Writer-director Justin Edgar’s (We Are The Freaks) fourth film is a low-budget noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
Backers include Creative England, Achilles Entertainments and Met Film Post.
Producers are Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin-Sharp from Achilles Entertainments with Alex Usborne and Edgar from 104 Films.
Executive producers are Richard Holmes and Cavan Ash for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Film Finances are providing the completion bond.
Supporting cast includes Struan Rodger (Kill List), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island), Cathy Tyson (Mona...
Shooting is underway in Birmingham, UK, on noir thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up, Snow in Paradise), Ana Uluru (Serena) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Mummy).
Writer-director Justin Edgar’s (We Are The Freaks) fourth film is a low-budget noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
Backers include Creative England, Achilles Entertainments and Met Film Post.
Producers are Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin-Sharp from Achilles Entertainments with Alex Usborne and Edgar from 104 Films.
Executive producers are Richard Holmes and Cavan Ash for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Film Finances are providing the completion bond.
Supporting cast includes Struan Rodger (Kill List), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island), Cathy Tyson (Mona...
- 1/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Starred Up and Snow In Paradise star leads cast in thriller from 104 Films.
Shooting is underway in Birmingham, UK, on noir thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up, Snow in Paradise), Ana Uluru (Serena) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Mummy).
Writer-director Justin Edgar’s (We Are The Freaks) fourth film is a noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
Backers include Creative England, Achilles Entertainments and Met Film Post.
Producers are Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin-Sharp from Achilles Entertainments with Alex Usborne and Edgar from 104 Films.
Executive producers are Richard Holmes and Cavan Ash for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Film Finances are providing the completion bond.
Supporting cast includes Struan Rodger (Kill List), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island), Cathy Tyson (Mona...
Shooting is underway in Birmingham, UK, on noir thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up, Snow in Paradise), Ana Uluru (Serena) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Mummy).
Writer-director Justin Edgar’s (We Are The Freaks) fourth film is a noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
Backers include Creative England, Achilles Entertainments and Met Film Post.
Producers are Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin-Sharp from Achilles Entertainments with Alex Usborne and Edgar from 104 Films.
Executive producers are Richard Holmes and Cavan Ash for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Film Finances are providing the completion bond.
Supporting cast includes Struan Rodger (Kill List), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island), Cathy Tyson (Mona...
- 1/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance top brass celebrate the tenth anniversary of the New Frontier programme with an exhibition of new work that includes Vr projects involving Björk and Ridley Scott’s global hit The Martian.Scroll Down For Full List
The dynamic roster encompasses features, a live performance, documentary and narrative mobile virtual reality experiences and a look inside the innovations at some of world’s leading media research labs.
Tenth anniversary exhibitions will also be presented with MoMA in New York City in April, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June.
The New Frontiers line-up will take place in Park City’s Claim Jumper, The Gateway, a large-scale installation on Swede Alley by Chris Milk and a performance by Gingger Shankar at Festival Base Camp Presented by Canada Goose.
Beyond the dedicated physical exhibition spaces, audiences can experience more than 20 virtual reality pieces on mobile Vr headsets. This year’s...
The dynamic roster encompasses features, a live performance, documentary and narrative mobile virtual reality experiences and a look inside the innovations at some of world’s leading media research labs.
Tenth anniversary exhibitions will also be presented with MoMA in New York City in April, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June.
The New Frontiers line-up will take place in Park City’s Claim Jumper, The Gateway, a large-scale installation on Swede Alley by Chris Milk and a performance by Gingger Shankar at Festival Base Camp Presented by Canada Goose.
Beyond the dedicated physical exhibition spaces, audiences can experience more than 20 virtual reality pieces on mobile Vr headsets. This year’s...
- 12/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Three Ticks scheme rolled out across funding bodies and all BFI Lottery-backed projects.
The BFI has opened its long-awaited Diversity Fund, which will have an initial investment pool of £1m.
At an event today in London, the UK’s lead bod for film announced that its Three Ticks diversity quota for production will be rolled out to all film projects in receipt of BFI Lottery Funding, including development, production, distribution and audience development.
In addition, UK funders including Creative Skillset, Creative England, Creative Scotland, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Film London, Into Film and Northern Ireland Screen have also adopted the Three Ticks soft quota model, now renamed the BFI Diversity Standard.
Underpinning the BFI Diversity Standard is a new BFI definition of diversity, which according to the BFI will “recognise and acknowledge the quality and value of difference”.
The BFI’s £1m BFI Diversity Fund opens on 2nd November 2015.
According to the BFI the fund will look “to...
The BFI has opened its long-awaited Diversity Fund, which will have an initial investment pool of £1m.
At an event today in London, the UK’s lead bod for film announced that its Three Ticks diversity quota for production will be rolled out to all film projects in receipt of BFI Lottery Funding, including development, production, distribution and audience development.
In addition, UK funders including Creative Skillset, Creative England, Creative Scotland, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Film London, Into Film and Northern Ireland Screen have also adopted the Three Ticks soft quota model, now renamed the BFI Diversity Standard.
Underpinning the BFI Diversity Standard is a new BFI definition of diversity, which according to the BFI will “recognise and acknowledge the quality and value of difference”.
The BFI’s £1m BFI Diversity Fund opens on 2nd November 2015.
According to the BFI the fund will look “to...
- 10/15/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Three Ticks scheme rolled out across funding bodies and all BFI Lottery-backed projects.
The BFI has opened its long-awaited Diversity Fund, which will have an initial investment pool of £1m.
At an event today in London, the UK’s lead bod for film announced that its Three Ticks diversity quota for production will be rolled out to all film projects in receipt of BFI Lottery Funding, including development, production, distribution and audience development.
In addition, UK funders including Creative Skillset, Creative England, Creative Scotland, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Film London, Into Film and Northern Ireland Screen have also adopted the Three Ticks soft quota model, now renamed the BFI Diversity Standard.
Underpinning the BFI Diversity Standard is a new BFI definition of diversity, which according to the BFI will “recognise and acknowledge the quality and value of difference”.
The BFI’s £1m BFI Diversity Fund opens on 2nd November 2015.
According to the BFI the fund will look “to...
The BFI has opened its long-awaited Diversity Fund, which will have an initial investment pool of £1m.
At an event today in London, the UK’s lead bod for film announced that its Three Ticks diversity quota for production will be rolled out to all film projects in receipt of BFI Lottery Funding, including development, production, distribution and audience development.
In addition, UK funders including Creative Skillset, Creative England, Creative Scotland, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Film London, Into Film and Northern Ireland Screen have also adopted the Three Ticks soft quota model, now renamed the BFI Diversity Standard.
Underpinning the BFI Diversity Standard is a new BFI definition of diversity, which according to the BFI will “recognise and acknowledge the quality and value of difference”.
The BFI’s £1m BFI Diversity Fund opens on 2nd November 2015.
According to the BFI the fund will look “to...
- 10/15/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: 45 Years backer promotes Caroline Cooper Charles.
Caroline Cooper Charles, previously Creative England’s senior film enterprise executive and head of creative development at Warp X, has been appointed the organisation’s new head of film.
Creative England is responsible for film initiatives iFeatures and iShorts, and has backed features including Notes On Blindness, 45 Years, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King and Burn, Burn, Burn.
During her time at Creative England Cooper Charles has led a bespoke support programme for film companies in England and previously worked across talent development strategy in the regions.
She is also CEO at production outfit Universal Spirits, producer of Jane Linfoot’s The Incident.
Prior to launching Universal Spirits Charles was head of creative development at Warp X where she was responsible for a slate of low-budget features including the cat-and-mouse thriller Hush, kaleidoscopic music documentary All Tomorrow’s Parties and road-trip comedy Bunny And The Bull.
As executive...
Caroline Cooper Charles, previously Creative England’s senior film enterprise executive and head of creative development at Warp X, has been appointed the organisation’s new head of film.
Creative England is responsible for film initiatives iFeatures and iShorts, and has backed features including Notes On Blindness, 45 Years, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King and Burn, Burn, Burn.
During her time at Creative England Cooper Charles has led a bespoke support programme for film companies in England and previously worked across talent development strategy in the regions.
She is also CEO at production outfit Universal Spirits, producer of Jane Linfoot’s The Incident.
Prior to launching Universal Spirits Charles was head of creative development at Warp X where she was responsible for a slate of low-budget features including the cat-and-mouse thriller Hush, kaleidoscopic music documentary All Tomorrow’s Parties and road-trip comedy Bunny And The Bull.
As executive...
- 10/15/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Financiers include Universal, Hanway, 42 M&P, Metrodome, The Works and Wild Bunch
Some 23 filmmaking teams are set to connect with investors at this year’s Film London Micro Market.
Micro Market is for feature projects budgeted at under €1m ($1.1) and is supported by Creative Skillset, complementing the Film London Production Finance Market at the BFI London Film Festival.
A total of 17 UK projects will be joined by six international projects from Sweden, Ireland, Norway, Israel, Italy and Indonesia - the last being a project which has come out of Microschool International, the training bootcamp Film London held earlier this year.
Previous features to secure finance and partnerships following Micro Market include Await Further Instructions, Moon Dog, Departure, Dartmoor Killing and Notes on Blindness.
The 23 financiers hoping to pick up features from breakthrough talent include Universal, HanWay, 42, Metrodome and The Works, with international delegates from Wild Bunch, Back Up, Le Bureau and Cocinelle.
This year the...
Some 23 filmmaking teams are set to connect with investors at this year’s Film London Micro Market.
Micro Market is for feature projects budgeted at under €1m ($1.1) and is supported by Creative Skillset, complementing the Film London Production Finance Market at the BFI London Film Festival.
A total of 17 UK projects will be joined by six international projects from Sweden, Ireland, Norway, Israel, Italy and Indonesia - the last being a project which has come out of Microschool International, the training bootcamp Film London held earlier this year.
Previous features to secure finance and partnerships following Micro Market include Await Further Instructions, Moon Dog, Departure, Dartmoor Killing and Notes on Blindness.
The 23 financiers hoping to pick up features from breakthrough talent include Universal, HanWay, 42, Metrodome and The Works, with international delegates from Wild Bunch, Back Up, Le Bureau and Cocinelle.
This year the...
- 10/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Fifteen candidates selected from 250 scheme applicants; previous mentees include Laura Hastings-Smith.
A total of 15 candidates have been selected from 250 applicants to take part in the seventh iteration of UK mentoring scheme Guiding Lights.
This year’s line up includes directing pair James Spinney and Peter Middleton, who have begun production on their feature film Notes on Blindness, as well as Aneil Karia, Emily Greenwood, Mahdi Fleifel, director of A World Not Ours, and Billy Lumby, whose short won the Pears Short Film prize.
Writers include Jennifer Majka, who wrote the screenplay for BAFTA-winning short The Bigger Picture, Matthew Orton, and Hannah Patterson.
Brian Falconer, producer of Oscar-nominated Boogaloo and Graham, made the cut alongside producers Daisy Allsop, Michael Ford, and Chi Thai.
The final two candidates were exhibitors Sophie Easterbrook, who programmed Farnham Maltings, a creative arts centre in the South East, and Carmen Slijpen, who is developing a new community cinema in East Sussex.
Mentors for the...
A total of 15 candidates have been selected from 250 applicants to take part in the seventh iteration of UK mentoring scheme Guiding Lights.
This year’s line up includes directing pair James Spinney and Peter Middleton, who have begun production on their feature film Notes on Blindness, as well as Aneil Karia, Emily Greenwood, Mahdi Fleifel, director of A World Not Ours, and Billy Lumby, whose short won the Pears Short Film prize.
Writers include Jennifer Majka, who wrote the screenplay for BAFTA-winning short The Bigger Picture, Matthew Orton, and Hannah Patterson.
Brian Falconer, producer of Oscar-nominated Boogaloo and Graham, made the cut alongside producers Daisy Allsop, Michael Ford, and Chi Thai.
The final two candidates were exhibitors Sophie Easterbrook, who programmed Farnham Maltings, a creative arts centre in the South East, and Carmen Slijpen, who is developing a new community cinema in East Sussex.
Mentors for the...
- 7/8/2015
- by mantus@masonlive.gmu.edu (Madison Antus)
- ScreenDaily
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