Josh Whitehouse, Natalia Tena, Simona Brown and Sienna Guillory have all joined the cast of Sean McConville’s thriller The Last Moon, with LevelK boarding world sales.
Production is scheduled for October 2024 in the UK, produced by Stephanie Joalland, Mat Braddy and McConville for their Frenzy Films.
The Last Moon takes place across one evening at a remote family home, as Max tries to trick his estranged brother Fred into shooting him to stop him transforming into a werewolf.
It has been selected for high-profile development labs including the European Genre Forum, London Production Finance Market, Frontieres, Naff It at...
Production is scheduled for October 2024 in the UK, produced by Stephanie Joalland, Mat Braddy and McConville for their Frenzy Films.
The Last Moon takes place across one evening at a remote family home, as Max tries to trick his estranged brother Fred into shooting him to stop him transforming into a werewolf.
It has been selected for high-profile development labs including the European Genre Forum, London Production Finance Market, Frontieres, Naff It at...
- 5/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
BFI Distribution has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Moin Hussain’s feature debut Sky Peals.
BFI Distribution acquired the film from Bankside Films, and will release it theatrically in the UK and Ireland on August 9.
The film follows a man working nightshifts at a motorway service station, who tries to piece together a picture of his recently deceased father, from whom he had been estranged.
Sky Peals debuted in Critics’ Week at Venice Film Festival last September, before a UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival. Faraz Ayub leads the cast, alongside Natalie Gavin and Claire Rushbrook.
It is produced...
BFI Distribution acquired the film from Bankside Films, and will release it theatrically in the UK and Ireland on August 9.
The film follows a man working nightshifts at a motorway service station, who tries to piece together a picture of his recently deceased father, from whom he had been estranged.
Sky Peals debuted in Critics’ Week at Venice Film Festival last September, before a UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival. Faraz Ayub leads the cast, alongside Natalie Gavin and Claire Rushbrook.
It is produced...
- 5/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
The 10th edition of the Next Step program of Cannes Critics’ Week is unfolding this week at the Moulin d’Andé artists residence in Normandy.
The complex, built around a 12th Century mill overlooking the River Seine, is renowned for its French New Wave connections, with François Truffaut reported to have written the screenplay for Jules And Jim during a stay there in the early 1960s.
“It’s one of the oldest writing and screenwriting residents in France,” says Cannes Critics’ Week program manager and Next Step workshop director Thomas Rosso. “We been coming here since the beginning.”
Aimed at helping filmmakers who have shown shorts at Cannes Critics’ Week get their first feature over the line, Next Step has supported 88 projects since its launch, 29 of which have come to fruition, with 13 more in production or due to premiere in 2024.
“Next Step is open to all filmmakers who have been...
The complex, built around a 12th Century mill overlooking the River Seine, is renowned for its French New Wave connections, with François Truffaut reported to have written the screenplay for Jules And Jim during a stay there in the early 1960s.
“It’s one of the oldest writing and screenwriting residents in France,” says Cannes Critics’ Week program manager and Next Step workshop director Thomas Rosso. “We been coming here since the beginning.”
Aimed at helping filmmakers who have shown shorts at Cannes Critics’ Week get their first feature over the line, Next Step has supported 88 projects since its launch, 29 of which have come to fruition, with 13 more in production or due to premiere in 2024.
“Next Step is open to all filmmakers who have been...
- 12/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The six-day Next Step initiaive is to help feted shorts directors to make a feature.
Ten short-film directors from Egypt, China and throughout Europe have been selected to participate in the 10th edition of the prestigious Next Step prrogramme of Cannes’ Critics’ Week, taking place in Normandy and Paris from December 9-15.
Next Step brings together filmmakers who have premiered their films at Critics’ Week to present their upcoming features in development during a workshop with industry mentors. The aim is to keep up the momentum with filmmakers afterr what can be their frenetic first experience of a major film festival.
Ten short-film directors from Egypt, China and throughout Europe have been selected to participate in the 10th edition of the prestigious Next Step prrogramme of Cannes’ Critics’ Week, taking place in Normandy and Paris from December 9-15.
Next Step brings together filmmakers who have premiered their films at Critics’ Week to present their upcoming features in development during a workshop with industry mentors. The aim is to keep up the momentum with filmmakers afterr what can be their frenetic first experience of a major film festival.
- 12/11/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
A total of £208,217 was awarded to 10 projects through the international distribution strand.
Hoard, The Radleys and How To Have Sex are among the 10 titles to receive funding from the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) awards, totalling £208,217 through the international distribution strand, administered by the British Film Institute (BFI).
To-date, this strand has made 57 awards totalling nearly £2m, financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).
Financial support for international distribution provides sales agents and producers with funding via three tracks – film sales, prints & advertising (P&a) and festival launch.
Venice Critics’ Week award winner Hoard,...
Hoard, The Radleys and How To Have Sex are among the 10 titles to receive funding from the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) awards, totalling £208,217 through the international distribution strand, administered by the British Film Institute (BFI).
To-date, this strand has made 57 awards totalling nearly £2m, financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).
Financial support for international distribution provides sales agents and producers with funding via three tracks – film sales, prints & advertising (P&a) and festival launch.
Venice Critics’ Week award winner Hoard,...
- 11/30/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
“The Kitchen” co-director and co-writer Daniel Kaluuya and “Polite Society” writer-director Nida Manzoor are among the emerging talents recognized at the British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) New Talent categories.
Both have been longlisted twice, in the debut director and debut screenwriter categories. In all, 20 fiction and 15 documentary features have been longlisted in the four debut filmmaking categories. Nineteen first-time fiction feature directors, 17 first-time feature documentary directors, 17 first-time writers and 24 breakthrough producers have been recognized by BIFA voters this year.
BIFA Springboard, an annual program supporting second-time feature filmmakers will launch in early 2024. BIFA will reveal the Netflix-sponsored 2023 breakthrough performance longlist, which highlights British acting talent in their first significant role in a British feature film, on Oct. 24. The final five nominations in each category will be unveiled on Nov. 2. Winners will be revealed at the 26th BIFA ceremony on Dec. 3.
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) Sponsored By...
Both have been longlisted twice, in the debut director and debut screenwriter categories. In all, 20 fiction and 15 documentary features have been longlisted in the four debut filmmaking categories. Nineteen first-time fiction feature directors, 17 first-time feature documentary directors, 17 first-time writers and 24 breakthrough producers have been recognized by BIFA voters this year.
BIFA Springboard, an annual program supporting second-time feature filmmakers will launch in early 2024. BIFA will reveal the Netflix-sponsored 2023 breakthrough performance longlist, which highlights British acting talent in their first significant role in a British feature film, on Oct. 24. The final five nominations in each category will be unveiled on Nov. 2. Winners will be revealed at the 26th BIFA ceremony on Dec. 3.
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) Sponsored By...
- 10/18/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Eight films listed in three of the four categories.
Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper, Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane and Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex are among the 35 features on the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) Filmmaker New Talent longlists for 2023.
The ceremony has released longlists for four awards: the Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director), Best Debut Screenwriter, Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary (a new award for this year) and Breakthrough Producer.
Scroll down for the full New Talent longlists
Eight films have been longlisted in three of the four categories: Earth Mama, Femme, In Camera, Pretty Red Dress,...
Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper, Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane and Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex are among the 35 features on the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) Filmmaker New Talent longlists for 2023.
The ceremony has released longlists for four awards: the Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director), Best Debut Screenwriter, Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary (a new award for this year) and Breakthrough Producer.
Scroll down for the full New Talent longlists
Eight films have been longlisted in three of the four categories: Earth Mama, Femme, In Camera, Pretty Red Dress,...
- 10/18/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Writers, directors and producers will take part in a series of masterclasses, screenings and networking opportunities from October 6-9.
The 15 participants in this year’s BFI Network@Lff professional development programme will include writer-director Abraham Adeyemi, whose directorial debut No More Wings won best narrative short at Tribeca Film Festival, writer Kamal Kaan, who was story, location and cultural consultant on Clio Barnard’s Cannes premiere Ali & Ava, writer-director Lowri Roberts who co-founded production company Rapt with actor Maisie Williams, and writer-director Dan Thorburn whose debut feature Barfly recently won best project at the Galway Film Fleadh marketplace.
Adeyemi is co-developing TV series South London,...
The 15 participants in this year’s BFI Network@Lff professional development programme will include writer-director Abraham Adeyemi, whose directorial debut No More Wings won best narrative short at Tribeca Film Festival, writer Kamal Kaan, who was story, location and cultural consultant on Clio Barnard’s Cannes premiere Ali & Ava, writer-director Lowri Roberts who co-founded production company Rapt with actor Maisie Williams, and writer-director Dan Thorburn whose debut feature Barfly recently won best project at the Galway Film Fleadh marketplace.
Adeyemi is co-developing TV series South London,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The new initiative brings together five international filmmakers with feature films in development and three composers.
Cannes’ Critics Week has expanded its shorts-to-features Next Step programme with inaugural workshop Next Step Volume II that runs September 25-30 in the Corsican mountains.
The new initiative brings together five international filmmakers with feature films in development and three composers for what organisers call “the vital stage of script rewriting”.
The selected directors and composers will spend a week at the Northern Corsican creative hub founded by filmmaker Antoine Viviani to hone their scripts and integrate a score with the help of international experts and consultants.
Cannes’ Critics Week has expanded its shorts-to-features Next Step programme with inaugural workshop Next Step Volume II that runs September 25-30 in the Corsican mountains.
The new initiative brings together five international filmmakers with feature films in development and three composers for what organisers call “the vital stage of script rewriting”.
The selected directors and composers will spend a week at the Northern Corsican creative hub founded by filmmaker Antoine Viviani to hone their scripts and integrate a score with the help of international experts and consultants.
- 9/25/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The term “alien” takes on multiple meanings in writer-director Moin Hussain’s intriguing and rather gloomy debut feature, Sky Peals, which follows a lonely rest-stop cook whose life is upended by the death of his estranged father. Although extraterrestrials are evoked at some point, this intimate indie is less of a sci-fi thriller than a minimalist character study, focusing on a multiracial protagonist who doesn’t seem to be at home anywhere.
Screening in Venice’s International Critics’ Week sidebar, the film marks a promising first feature for Hussain, who shows a steady command of tone in a story that’s basically set in one colorless, extremely alienating place. But it can also be too much of a one-note affair at times, lacking the dramatic energy to take it to wider audiences.
What’s important to note about Sky Peals’ young hero, Adam (Faraz Ayub), is that his mother (Claire Rushbrook...
Screening in Venice’s International Critics’ Week sidebar, the film marks a promising first feature for Hussain, who shows a steady command of tone in a story that’s basically set in one colorless, extremely alienating place. But it can also be too much of a one-note affair at times, lacking the dramatic energy to take it to wider audiences.
What’s important to note about Sky Peals’ young hero, Adam (Faraz Ayub), is that his mother (Claire Rushbrook...
- 9/6/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“The positive response of audiences represents an act of respect for artists on strike.”
Over halfway through its 2023 edition, Venice Film Festival has posted increased admissions, across its public tickets, subscription passes and number of theatre admissions.
Statistics released by the festival from the first five days (Wednesday August 30 to Sunday September 3 inclusive) show 35,496 public tickets sold – up 9% on 2022. This includes 6,375 subscription passes – a 17% increase on last year.
Total theatre admissions – a combination of single ticket entrances, subscription passes and press and industry entrances – is at 114,851, up a strong 18% on 2022.
The festival has granted 11,328 accreditations for this year – a slight 0.5% increase on last year.
Over halfway through its 2023 edition, Venice Film Festival has posted increased admissions, across its public tickets, subscription passes and number of theatre admissions.
Statistics released by the festival from the first five days (Wednesday August 30 to Sunday September 3 inclusive) show 35,496 public tickets sold – up 9% on 2022. This includes 6,375 subscription passes – a 17% increase on last year.
Total theatre admissions – a combination of single ticket entrances, subscription passes and press and industry entrances – is at 114,851, up a strong 18% on 2022.
The festival has granted 11,328 accreditations for this year – a slight 0.5% increase on last year.
- 9/5/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“The positive response of audiences represents an act of respect for artists on strike.”
Over halfway through its 2023 edition, Venice Film Festival has recorded increased admissions, across its public tickets, subscription passes and number of theatre admissions.
Statistics released by the festival from the first five days (Wednesday August 30 to Sunday September 3 inclusive) show 35,496 public tickets sold – up 9% on 2022. This includes 6,375 subscription passes – a 17% increase on last year.
Total theatre admissions – a combination of single ticket entrances, subscription passes and press and industry entrances – is at 114,851, up a strong 18% on 2022.
The festival has granted 11,328 accreditations for this year – a slight 0.5% increase on last year.
Over halfway through its 2023 edition, Venice Film Festival has recorded increased admissions, across its public tickets, subscription passes and number of theatre admissions.
Statistics released by the festival from the first five days (Wednesday August 30 to Sunday September 3 inclusive) show 35,496 public tickets sold – up 9% on 2022. This includes 6,375 subscription passes – a 17% increase on last year.
Total theatre admissions – a combination of single ticket entrances, subscription passes and press and industry entrances – is at 114,851, up a strong 18% on 2022.
The festival has granted 11,328 accreditations for this year – a slight 0.5% increase on last year.
- 9/5/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Venice film festival: Moin Hussain’s arresting debut feature about an alienated night-shift worker turns the humble service station into a nightmarish modern limbo
“Do you ever feel that you’re in the wrong place?” asks Adam, the doleful hero of Moin Hussain’s debut film. “Like, if this is the place you were meant to end up?” Adam might conceivably be talking about life in the Sky Peals Green service station, where he works the night shift in a fast-food establishment, but his question goes wider; it’s the existential full house. His troubled dad, after all, believed himself to be an alien from outer space. Under the eerie lights of the station, Adam has started to wonder if he might be one as well.
Premiering in the critics’ week section here in Venice, Hussain’s creepy, distinctive British feature wrings the maximum mileage from its location, conjuring a...
“Do you ever feel that you’re in the wrong place?” asks Adam, the doleful hero of Moin Hussain’s debut film. “Like, if this is the place you were meant to end up?” Adam might conceivably be talking about life in the Sky Peals Green service station, where he works the night shift in a fast-food establishment, but his question goes wider; it’s the existential full house. His troubled dad, after all, believed himself to be an alien from outer space. Under the eerie lights of the station, Adam has started to wonder if he might be one as well.
Premiering in the critics’ week section here in Venice, Hussain’s creepy, distinctive British feature wrings the maximum mileage from its location, conjuring a...
- 9/5/2023
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Potter replaces senior project manager – feature film lead, Celine Haddad.
Keith Potter, an executive producer on titles including Room and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, has been named head of feature film at Screen Ireland.
He takes over from Celine Haddad. Potter will take up the new Dublin-based role in October and will co-lead the production and development department, along with the head of television, Andrew Byrne. They will develop feature film policy and strategy, assess individual project readiness from a creative and financial perspective, and support Irish writers, producers and directors across this process.
The role will be...
Keith Potter, an executive producer on titles including Room and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, has been named head of feature film at Screen Ireland.
He takes over from Celine Haddad. Potter will take up the new Dublin-based role in October and will co-lead the production and development department, along with the head of television, Andrew Byrne. They will develop feature film policy and strategy, assess individual project readiness from a creative and financial perspective, and support Irish writers, producers and directors across this process.
The role will be...
- 9/4/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Titles include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist; Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel; and Christos Nikou’s Fingernails.
BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the competition line-ups for best film, best first feature and best documentary.
The 11 films competing for best film include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist; Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel; Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre and Christos Nikou’s Fingernails.
Christine Molloy returns to the competition after 2019’s Rose Plays Julie. This time she has co-directed Baltimore with frequent collaborator and partner Joe Lawlor. The pair recently directed The Future Tense which...
BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the competition line-ups for best film, best first feature and best documentary.
The 11 films competing for best film include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist; Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel; Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre and Christos Nikou’s Fingernails.
Christine Molloy returns to the competition after 2019’s Rose Plays Julie. This time she has co-directed Baltimore with frequent collaborator and partner Joe Lawlor. The pair recently directed The Future Tense which...
- 8/29/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
La BêteCOMPETITIONComandante (Edoardo De Angelis)The Promised Land (Nikolaj Arcel)Dogman (Luc Besson) La Bête (Bertrand Bonello) Hors-Saison (Stéphane Brizé) Enea (Pietro Castellitto) Maestro (Bradley Cooper)Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)Finalmente L’Alba (Saverio Costanzo)Lubo (Giorgio Diritti) Origin (Ava DuVernay) The Killer (David Fincher)Memory (Michel Franco)Io capitano (Matteo Garrone)Evil Does Not Exist (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)The Green Border (Agnieszka Holland)The Theory of Everything (Timm Kröger)Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)El conde (Pablo Larrain)Ferrari (Michael Mann)Adagio (Stefano Sollima)Woman OfHolly (Fien Troch)Out Of COMPETITIONFictionSociety of the Snow (J.A. Bayona)Coup de Chance (Woody Allen)The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson)The Penitent (Luca Barbareschi)L’Ordine Del Tempo (Liliana Cavani)Vivants (Alix Delaporte)Welcome to Paradise (Leonardo di Constanzo)Daaaaaali! (Quentin Dupieux)The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (William Friedkin)Making of (Cedric Kahn)Aggro Dr1ft (Harmony Korine)Hitman (Richard Linklater)The Palace (Roman Polanski...
- 7/29/2023
- MUBI
Michelle Stein and Jennifer Monks are producers of Moin Hussain’s Venice Critics’ Week entry Sky Peals.
Michelle Stein and Jennifer Monks, producers of Moin Hussain’s Venice Critics’ Week entry Sky Peals, are launching UK production company The Fold.
Stein was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2009 (as Michelle Eastwood); she has produced features including Brian Welsh’s Bifa-winning In Our Name in 2010, and Hussain’s shorts Naptha and Real Gods Require Blood.
Monks was recently a co-producer on Charlotte Regan’s Sundance premiere Scrapper, and Naqqash Khalid’s Karlovy Vary title In Camera.
The Fold banner aims...
Michelle Stein and Jennifer Monks, producers of Moin Hussain’s Venice Critics’ Week entry Sky Peals, are launching UK production company The Fold.
Stein was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2009 (as Michelle Eastwood); she has produced features including Brian Welsh’s Bifa-winning In Our Name in 2010, and Hussain’s shorts Naptha and Real Gods Require Blood.
Monks was recently a co-producer on Charlotte Regan’s Sundance premiere Scrapper, and Naqqash Khalid’s Karlovy Vary title In Camera.
The Fold banner aims...
- 7/26/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Two UK features play in competition at event’s 38th edition.
Venice Critics’ Week has selected seven features for its main competition, including two from the UK - Hoard by Luna Carmoon and Sky Peals by Moin Hussain.
Scroll down for full line-up
Hoard is the debut feature from Carmoon, a Screen Star of Tomorrow 2022,. It is produced by Loran Dunn (Screen Star of Tomorrow 2017), Helen Simmons (Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018) with Andy Starke, and stars Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn (Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018) and Saura Lightfoot Leon.
Hoard is backed by the BFI and BBC Film, which also supported development,...
Venice Critics’ Week has selected seven features for its main competition, including two from the UK - Hoard by Luna Carmoon and Sky Peals by Moin Hussain.
Scroll down for full line-up
Hoard is the debut feature from Carmoon, a Screen Star of Tomorrow 2022,. It is produced by Loran Dunn (Screen Star of Tomorrow 2017), Helen Simmons (Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018) with Andy Starke, and stars Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn (Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018) and Saura Lightfoot Leon.
Hoard is backed by the BFI and BBC Film, which also supported development,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
“God Is a Woman,” a doc by Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker Andrés Peyrot about Pierre Dominique Gaisseau’s 1975 journey to Panama to make a film on the island-dwelling Kuna people — whose women play a unique and sacred role — will open the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week.
The section’s out-of-competition opener reconstructs the legend of this film that was passed down from the elders to the new Kuna generation, but never made it to the screen. Gaisseau, a French explorer and filmmaker who won an Oscar in 1961 for the doc “The Sky Above, the Mud Below,” lived with the Kuna people on a Panamanian island for a year and filmed their most intimate ceremonies. He then promised to return with the film, but never did. He ran out of funding and a bank confiscated his reels, which Peyrot unearthed 50 years later.
Films in the Venice Critics’ Week competition comprise “About Last Year,...
The section’s out-of-competition opener reconstructs the legend of this film that was passed down from the elders to the new Kuna generation, but never made it to the screen. Gaisseau, a French explorer and filmmaker who won an Oscar in 1961 for the doc “The Sky Above, the Mud Below,” lived with the Kuna people on a Panamanian island for a year and filmed their most intimate ceremonies. He then promised to return with the film, but never did. He ran out of funding and a bank confiscated his reels, which Peyrot unearthed 50 years later.
Films in the Venice Critics’ Week competition comprise “About Last Year,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Venice Critics’ Week has announced the line-up for its 38th edition, running August 30 to September 9 alongside the Venice Film Festival.
The seven competition titles include UK director Moin Hussain’s debut feature Sky Peals about a lonely man working the night shifts at a motorway service station with little human contact or connection. Upon hearing that his estranged father has died, Adam finds himself piecing together a complicated image of a man that he never really knew and uncovers details of his life that he struggles to comprehend.
Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-Chi’s will also unveil his directorial debut Love Is A Gun about a petty criminal whose attempts to build a quiet life following his release from prison are upended by the reappearance of his former boss, his debt-ridden mother and an old friend.
The competition titles will compete for the €5,000 Grand Prize and the €3,000 Audience Award. The selection...
The seven competition titles include UK director Moin Hussain’s debut feature Sky Peals about a lonely man working the night shifts at a motorway service station with little human contact or connection. Upon hearing that his estranged father has died, Adam finds himself piecing together a complicated image of a man that he never really knew and uncovers details of his life that he struggles to comprehend.
Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-Chi’s will also unveil his directorial debut Love Is A Gun about a petty criminal whose attempts to build a quiet life following his release from prison are upended by the reappearance of his former boss, his debt-ridden mother and an old friend.
The competition titles will compete for the €5,000 Grand Prize and the €3,000 Audience Award. The selection...
- 7/24/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Sofia Coppola, Emerald Fennell, Yorgos Lanthimos, Pablo Larrain, Michel Franco and Bradley Cooper could all be on the Lido.
Alberto Barbera is closing in on his Venice Film Festival selection, with buzz around Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, Matteo Garrone’s migrant drama Io Capitano and Pablo Larrain’s dark comedy El Conde about Augusto Pinochet for the Competition.
Also potentially Lido-bound are Michael Mann’s Ferrari with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, David Michod’s comedy Wizards! with Pete Davidson, Naomi Scott and Orlando Bloom, and Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor.
Michel Franco,...
Alberto Barbera is closing in on his Venice Film Festival selection, with buzz around Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, Matteo Garrone’s migrant drama Io Capitano and Pablo Larrain’s dark comedy El Conde about Augusto Pinochet for the Competition.
Also potentially Lido-bound are Michael Mann’s Ferrari with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, David Michod’s comedy Wizards! with Pete Davidson, Naomi Scott and Orlando Bloom, and Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor.
Michel Franco,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In the run-up to Cannes, the British Film Institute and the British Council held the Great8 showcase, which presented eight U.K. films from emerging filmmakers. Here are the films selected:
“Aftersun” (drama)
Director/writer: Charlotte Wells
Cast: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall
Sales: Charades
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father 20 years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
“Birchanger Green” (sci-fi)
Director/writer: Moin Hussain
Cast: Faraz Ayub, Natalie Gavin, Claire Rushbrook, Simon Nagra
Sales: Bankside Films
Adam lives a solitary life. Upon hearing that his estranged father has died, he finds himself in search of answers. Piecing together a complicated image of a man he never knew, Adam starts to become convinced he is descended from an alien race.
“Aftersun” (drama)
Director/writer: Charlotte Wells
Cast: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall
Sales: Charades
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father 20 years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
“Birchanger Green” (sci-fi)
Director/writer: Moin Hussain
Cast: Faraz Ayub, Natalie Gavin, Claire Rushbrook, Simon Nagra
Sales: Bankside Films
Adam lives a solitary life. Upon hearing that his estranged father has died, he finds himself in search of answers. Piecing together a complicated image of a man he never knew, Adam starts to become convinced he is descended from an alien race.
- 5/21/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include ’Aftersun’, ’Enys Men’, ‘Birchanger Green’ and ‘A Gaza Weekend’.
Cannes premieres Aftersun, sold by Charades, and Enys Men, sold by Protagonist Pictures, are among the titles selected for year’s Great 8, the annual Cannes buyers’ showcase of UK films from emerging directors.
The other six titles are all in post-production.
Now in its fifth edition, the 2022 Great 8 showcase is funded and run by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4.
Unseen footage from all of the titles will be introduced by their filmmakers and screened on May 12 exclusively to buyers and festival programmers during the online-only showcase,...
Cannes premieres Aftersun, sold by Charades, and Enys Men, sold by Protagonist Pictures, are among the titles selected for year’s Great 8, the annual Cannes buyers’ showcase of UK films from emerging directors.
The other six titles are all in post-production.
Now in its fifth edition, the 2022 Great 8 showcase is funded and run by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4.
Unseen footage from all of the titles will be introduced by their filmmakers and screened on May 12 exclusively to buyers and festival programmers during the online-only showcase,...
- 5/5/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The BFI and British Council have revealed the line-up for this year’s Great8 showcase, which allows international distributors and festival programmers to get an early look at eight releases from emerging U.K. filmmakers in the run-up to Cannes Marché.
Now in its fifth year, the showcase on May 12 will allow filmmakers to screen unseen footage from the films, which will be available to buy during the market, which runs from May 17-28.
Of the eight films selected for the showcase, one has also been selected for the official Directors’ Fortnight and another for the Critics’ Week line-up. The remaining six films are in post-production.
The Great8 showcase is funded and organized by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4. It has previously presented films including “I Am Not A Witch” and “Calm with Horses.”
Neil Peplow, the BFI’s Director of Industry and International Affairs,...
Now in its fifth year, the showcase on May 12 will allow filmmakers to screen unseen footage from the films, which will be available to buy during the market, which runs from May 17-28.
Of the eight films selected for the showcase, one has also been selected for the official Directors’ Fortnight and another for the Critics’ Week line-up. The remaining six films are in post-production.
The Great8 showcase is funded and organized by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4. It has previously presented films including “I Am Not A Witch” and “Calm with Horses.”
Neil Peplow, the BFI’s Director of Industry and International Affairs,...
- 5/4/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Major role in UK film ecosystem is responsible for £11m yearly budget.
Eva Yates has been confirmed as the new director of BBC Film, taking on one of the major roles in the independent UK film ecosystem.
Yates has been acting director at the development and production body since the departure of Rose Garnett to join US firm A24, announced in early March this year. She will start immediately as director, and will be in Cannes.
Yates will oversee BBC Film’s £11m annual budget for development and production, which goes towards 12 to 15 films a year. Also under her remit is the Storyville documentary strand,...
Eva Yates has been confirmed as the new director of BBC Film, taking on one of the major roles in the independent UK film ecosystem.
Yates has been acting director at the development and production body since the departure of Rose Garnett to join US firm A24, announced in early March this year. She will start immediately as director, and will be in Cannes.
Yates will oversee BBC Film’s £11m annual budget for development and production, which goes towards 12 to 15 films a year. Also under her remit is the Storyville documentary strand,...
- 5/4/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Film4, BFI, Screen Yorkshire backed the film.
UK-based sales firm Bankside Films has boarded sales on Birchanger Green, the feature debut of Screen Star of Tomorrow writer-director Moin Hussain that wrapped production in Yorkshire last month.
Bankside will debut the film to buyers in Cannes; Screen can reveal a first-look image at the film (above).
Birchanger Green centres on a man living a small, lonely life working nightshifts at a motorway service station. On hearing his estranged father has died, he finds himself in search of answers and starts to become convinced that he descends from an alien race.
The...
UK-based sales firm Bankside Films has boarded sales on Birchanger Green, the feature debut of Screen Star of Tomorrow writer-director Moin Hussain that wrapped production in Yorkshire last month.
Bankside will debut the film to buyers in Cannes; Screen can reveal a first-look image at the film (above).
Birchanger Green centres on a man living a small, lonely life working nightshifts at a motorway service station. On hearing his estranged father has died, he finds himself in search of answers and starts to become convinced that he descends from an alien race.
The...
- 5/4/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Here’s our annual rundown of the 10 largest awards given out by the British Film Institute’s Film Fund across 2021. Backed by National Lottery money, the grants are a key supporter of indie cinema in the UK.
This year also saw long-time Film Fund chief Ben Roberts, now BFI CEO, hand over the keys to the fund to new director Mia Bays.
Top of the list is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s popular novel about a man who embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the belief that his journey will save the life of an old friend. Jim Broadbent is starring in the pic, which Joyce is adapting herself. Hettie Macdonald, who helmed Normal People with Lenny Abrahamson, is directing. Producers are Kevin Loader with Juliet Dowling and Marilyn Milgrom.
Second on the list is Typist Artist Pirate King[/link], the...
This year also saw long-time Film Fund chief Ben Roberts, now BFI CEO, hand over the keys to the fund to new director Mia Bays.
Top of the list is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s popular novel about a man who embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the belief that his journey will save the life of an old friend. Jim Broadbent is starring in the pic, which Joyce is adapting herself. Hettie Macdonald, who helmed Normal People with Lenny Abrahamson, is directing. Producers are Kevin Loader with Juliet Dowling and Marilyn Milgrom.
Second on the list is Typist Artist Pirate King[/link], the...
- 12/27/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
With live performance venues subject to heavy admissions restrictions, U.K. fans of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera, and Royal Ballet will soon be able to get their performance art fix thanks to a deal struck with BBC and ITV’s streaming platform Britbox, which will allow subscribers to tune in to their favorite productions starting July 23.
Falling under the service’s Centre Stage Collection — a showcase of concerts, documentaries and comedies celebrating British entertainment and performers — the new programming includes 25 Royal Shakespeare Company productions featuring film and TV stars such as Antony Sher in “King Lear,” David Tennant in “Richard II” and Christopher Eccleston in “Macbeth.”
Royal Ballet productions include Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” as well as Talbot’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” while the Royal Opera will contribute Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly,” Gounod’s “Faust” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” among others.
Several...
Falling under the service’s Centre Stage Collection — a showcase of concerts, documentaries and comedies celebrating British entertainment and performers — the new programming includes 25 Royal Shakespeare Company productions featuring film and TV stars such as Antony Sher in “King Lear,” David Tennant in “Richard II” and Christopher Eccleston in “Macbeth.”
Royal Ballet productions include Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” as well as Talbot’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” while the Royal Opera will contribute Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly,” Gounod’s “Faust” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” among others.
Several...
- 7/15/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Film and TV Charity supports emerging industry talent with £60,000 in development awards.
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain is among the first 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.
London-based writer-director...
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain is among the first 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.
London-based writer-director...
- 7/15/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Teona Strugar Mitevska, Sofia Exarchou, Hanna Sköld, Marian Crisan, Pavle Vučković, Moin Hussain, Emin Alper, and duo Esther Rots and Dan Geesin are representing Europe. Fifteen feature-film projects (and 16 filmmakers) hailing from 15 countries have been selected for the 16th edition of the Cinéfondation Atelier, which will take place as an integral part of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival (12-23 May), preparations for which are still in full swing, although all eyes are obviously on any new developments in the coronavirus epidemic.This year, Europe will be very well represented, with eight projects. The most prominent of them is The Happiest Man in the World by North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska, whose latest opus, God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, was unveiled in competition at Berlin in 2019 before scooping the European Parliament’s Lux Prize. As a reminder, the three previous films by the director were presented in the Panorama.
Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Moin Hussain will present his project Birchanger Green.
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
- 3/9/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Moin Hussain will present his project Birchanger Green.
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
- 3/9/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The lineup for the 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) has been announced. See also the full lineups of the Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight and Acid programme.Opening FILMLitigante (Franco Lolli): In Bogota, Silvia, a single mum and a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. A deeper anxiety weighs on her as well. Leticia, her mother, is seriously ill. Upon having to face her inevitable passing, Silvia embarks on a love story for the first time in years. COMPETITIONAbou Leila (Amin Sidi-Boumédiène): Algeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two friends from childhood, travel through the desert looking for Abou Leila, a dangerous terrorist on the run. Their quest seems absurd, given that the Sahara has not been affected by the wave of attacks. Lofti has only one priority : to keep S. as far from the capital as possible, knowing his friend is too fragile to face more bloodshed.
- 4/24/2019
- MUBI
‘Demonic’
Pia Borg’s Demonic, which investigates the mass hysteria which swept through the Us in the 1980s, will have its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Produced by Anna Vincent, Bonnie McBride and Borg, the film is among five from around the world that will have special screenings in the Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar.
Revisiting the Satanic Panic which was fueled by a rash of false allegations made against daycare centres, the hybrid documentary/narrative had its world premiere last year at the Adelaide Film Festival.
Blending archive, animation and reconstruction, the Melbourne-based filmmaker, who is currently lecturing in Los Angeles, uncovered the forces at play between psychiatry, media and false memory. The key cast consisted of Angie Christophel, Hanna Gabriella Galbraith and Robert Blake.
Demonic is among 15 short films selected for Critics Week from more than 1,600 submitted. “Pia is a visionary filmmaker and it was an absolute...
Pia Borg’s Demonic, which investigates the mass hysteria which swept through the Us in the 1980s, will have its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Produced by Anna Vincent, Bonnie McBride and Borg, the film is among five from around the world that will have special screenings in the Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar.
Revisiting the Satanic Panic which was fueled by a rash of false allegations made against daycare centres, the hybrid documentary/narrative had its world premiere last year at the Adelaide Film Festival.
Blending archive, animation and reconstruction, the Melbourne-based filmmaker, who is currently lecturing in Los Angeles, uncovered the forces at play between psychiatry, media and false memory. The key cast consisted of Angie Christophel, Hanna Gabriella Galbraith and Robert Blake.
Demonic is among 15 short films selected for Critics Week from more than 1,600 submitted. “Pia is a visionary filmmaker and it was an absolute...
- 4/23/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week lineup as been announced, revealing the seven features and 10 short films that will compete in the prestigious sidebar to the Cannes Film Festival. Critics’ Week is celebrating its 58th year in 2019. “Embrace of the Serpent” filmmaker and “Birds of Passage” co-director Ciro Guerra is serving as the president of the Critics’ Week jury.
This year’s Critics’ Week competition includes the world premiere of “Vivarium,” a science-fiction thriller from Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (“Without a Name”). The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots as a young couple who move into a new housing development, only to discover the place is far more surreal than anticipated. “Vivarium” is Finnegan’s second feature. Critics’ Week screens directorial debuts and second features, with first-time films eligible for the Camera d’Or honor. A special screening of “Litigante” from director Franco Lolli will open Critics’ Week.
The 2019 Cannes Critics...
This year’s Critics’ Week competition includes the world premiere of “Vivarium,” a science-fiction thriller from Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (“Without a Name”). The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots as a young couple who move into a new housing development, only to discover the place is far more surreal than anticipated. “Vivarium” is Finnegan’s second feature. Critics’ Week screens directorial debuts and second features, with first-time films eligible for the Camera d’Or honor. A special screening of “Litigante” from director Franco Lolli will open Critics’ Week.
The 2019 Cannes Critics...
- 4/22/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Following last week’s unveiling of the Cannes Film Festival lineup, the sidebar of Critics’ Week has now revealed their program. With a jury headed by Embrace of the Serpent and Birds of Passage director Ciro Guerra, the lineup includes Lorcan Finnegan‘s sci-fi thriller Vivarium, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg and Hlynur Pálmason’s Winters Brothers follow-up A White, White Day. Adèle Haenel–who has Portrait of a Lady on Fire in competition and Deerskin opening Directors’ Fortnight–will also appear at Critics’ Week with Heroes Don’t Die.
See the lineup below, including the first teaser for I Lost My Body.
Competition, Features
About Lelia, dir: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Land Of Ashes, dir: Sofía Quirós Ubeda
A White, White Day, dir: Hlynur Pálmason
I Lost My Body, dir: Jérémy Clapin
Our Mothers, dir: César Diaz
The Unknown Saint, dir: Alaa Eddine Aljem
Vivarium, dir: Lorcan Finnegan
Special Screenings,...
See the lineup below, including the first teaser for I Lost My Body.
Competition, Features
About Lelia, dir: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Land Of Ashes, dir: Sofía Quirós Ubeda
A White, White Day, dir: Hlynur Pálmason
I Lost My Body, dir: Jérémy Clapin
Our Mothers, dir: César Diaz
The Unknown Saint, dir: Alaa Eddine Aljem
Vivarium, dir: Lorcan Finnegan
Special Screenings,...
- 4/22/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 58th edition of Critics’ Week has unveiled its program for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The section welcomes first or second features and boasts a number of debuts which will be eligible for the Camera d’Or in 2019. Oscar-nominated Embrace Of The Serpent filmmaker Ciro Guerra is chairing the jury which will screen seven features in competition and 10 short films.
Three special screenings are also included in the lineup, among them the first feature directing effort of Hafsia Herzi. The Secret Of The Grain star’s Tu Mérites Un Amour is described as a passionate love story and an assured debut. Also in special screenings are Franco Lolli’s Litigante, which will open CW, and Heroes Don’t Die, a feature debut from Aude Léa Rapin that stars Adèle Haenel.
The competition titles include Vivarium, the second work by Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (Without Name). It stars Imogen Poots...
Three special screenings are also included in the lineup, among them the first feature directing effort of Hafsia Herzi. The Secret Of The Grain star’s Tu Mérites Un Amour is described as a passionate love story and an assured debut. Also in special screenings are Franco Lolli’s Litigante, which will open CW, and Heroes Don’t Die, a feature debut from Aude Léa Rapin that stars Adèle Haenel.
The competition titles include Vivarium, the second work by Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (Without Name). It stars Imogen Poots...
- 4/22/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Annual talent showcase spotlights the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers in the UK and Ireland.
Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow 2018, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers in the UK and Ireland.
Now in its 15th year, the annual talent showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers from the UK and Ireland who are primed to make their mark in the industry in the years to come.
The annual showcase has established itself as a key identifier of emerging UK and Ireland talent, both in front of and behind the camera.
Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow 2018, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers in the UK and Ireland.
Now in its 15th year, the annual talent showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers from the UK and Ireland who are primed to make their mark in the industry in the years to come.
The annual showcase has established itself as a key identifier of emerging UK and Ireland talent, both in front of and behind the camera.
- 10/4/2018
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Simon Brew Aug 10, 2017
26 short genre films are heading to London at the end of the month - and we've got the full list here...
One of the many treats – well, 26 of the many treats – awaiting attendees of Horror Channel FrightFest in London at the end of the month is the short film showcase, that’s just been announced.
Across three days, 26 short genre movies will be screened, including 12 from the UK. Den Of Geek alumnus James Moran’s Blood Shed, starring Shaun Dooley, Sally Phillips and a garden shed, is screening. As is Katie Bonham’s Mab, Sean Healy’s Judgement and Stefano Nurro’s Hum.
The full line up is at the bottom of this post. Meanwhile, if you’re after tickets, Horror Channel FrightFest runs from 24th to the 28th of August in London. You can buy single tickets and passes here: http://www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.
26 short genre films are heading to London at the end of the month - and we've got the full list here...
One of the many treats – well, 26 of the many treats – awaiting attendees of Horror Channel FrightFest in London at the end of the month is the short film showcase, that’s just been announced.
Across three days, 26 short genre movies will be screened, including 12 from the UK. Den Of Geek alumnus James Moran’s Blood Shed, starring Shaun Dooley, Sally Phillips and a garden shed, is screening. As is Katie Bonham’s Mab, Sean Healy’s Judgement and Stefano Nurro’s Hum.
The full line up is at the bottom of this post. Meanwhile, if you’re after tickets, Horror Channel FrightFest runs from 24th to the 28th of August in London. You can buy single tickets and passes here: http://www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.
- 8/10/2017
- Den of Geek
With twenty-six films over three days, including ten World, four European and seven UK premieres, Horror Channel FrightFest’s short film showcase unleashes this year’s eclectic mix of the bold, brave, bloody and barmy with films programmed to entertain, frighten, enlighten and simply amaze.
From the press release:
There are twelve films from the United Kingdom, forming the centerpiece of this year’s line-up. These include James Moran’s Blood Shed, starring Shaun Dooley and Sally Phillips, where a man’s love of his garden shed takes a rather murderous turn. In Judgement, Neil Maskell stars as a single man looking for love in all the wrong places and Laurence R. Harvey shines as a mutated children’s’ toy in Teddy Bear’S Picnic. Then there’s Katie Bonham’s Mab, about a girl who turns to witchcraft to teach someone a lesson.
The other home-grown offerings see people...
From the press release:
There are twelve films from the United Kingdom, forming the centerpiece of this year’s line-up. These include James Moran’s Blood Shed, starring Shaun Dooley and Sally Phillips, where a man’s love of his garden shed takes a rather murderous turn. In Judgement, Neil Maskell stars as a single man looking for love in all the wrong places and Laurence R. Harvey shines as a mutated children’s’ toy in Teddy Bear’S Picnic. Then there’s Katie Bonham’s Mab, about a girl who turns to witchcraft to teach someone a lesson.
The other home-grown offerings see people...
- 8/3/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Discussions to cover Brexit, animation and the state of the industry in Scotland.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the line-up of industry events set to take place alongside this year’s festival.
Industry events
The nine-day industry events program held at the Press and Industry Centre in the Traverse theatre begins with the annual Eiff Screen Summit on 21 June, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and Creative Scotland, and in association with the BFI.
This year it will focus on two issues; the UK screen sector in Europe as the UK moves towards Brexit; and the key developments in Scotland’s screen sector in the past 12 months. This session will begin with a keynote address from Fiona Hyslop, cabinet secretary for culture, tourism and external relations at the Scottish government.
Other industry events include a networking event in partnership with the BFI Network and Prs for Music connecting filmmakers with producers and with...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the line-up of industry events set to take place alongside this year’s festival.
Industry events
The nine-day industry events program held at the Press and Industry Centre in the Traverse theatre begins with the annual Eiff Screen Summit on 21 June, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and Creative Scotland, and in association with the BFI.
This year it will focus on two issues; the UK screen sector in Europe as the UK moves towards Brexit; and the key developments in Scotland’s screen sector in the past 12 months. This session will begin with a keynote address from Fiona Hyslop, cabinet secretary for culture, tourism and external relations at the Scottish government.
Other industry events include a networking event in partnership with the BFI Network and Prs for Music connecting filmmakers with producers and with...
- 6/7/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Discussions to cover Brexit, animation and the state of the industry in Scotland.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the line-up of industry events set to take place alongside this year’s festival.
Industry events
The nine-day industry events program held at the Press and Industry Centre in the Traverse theatre begins with the annual Eiff Screen Summit on 21 June, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and Creative Scotland, and in association with the BFI.
This year it will focus on two issues; the UK screen sector in Europe as the UK moves towards Brexit; and the key developments in Scotland’s screen sector in the past 12 months. This session will begin with a keynote address from Fiona Hyslop, cabinet secretary for culture, tourism and external relations at the Scottish government.
Other industry events include a networking event in partnership with the BFI Network and Prs for Music connecting filmmakers with producers and with...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the line-up of industry events set to take place alongside this year’s festival.
Industry events
The nine-day industry events program held at the Press and Industry Centre in the Traverse theatre begins with the annual Eiff Screen Summit on 21 June, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and Creative Scotland, and in association with the BFI.
This year it will focus on two issues; the UK screen sector in Europe as the UK moves towards Brexit; and the key developments in Scotland’s screen sector in the past 12 months. This session will begin with a keynote address from Fiona Hyslop, cabinet secretary for culture, tourism and external relations at the Scottish government.
Other industry events include a networking event in partnership with the BFI Network and Prs for Music connecting filmmakers with producers and with...
- 6/7/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
The 2017 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and IndieWire is partnering with Festival Scope for a second year in a row to give readers the chance to bring a part of the event straight to their own homes. This year, our Critics’ Week sweepstakes features 9 short films and one feature in competition. If you aren’t in Cannes, this is your only chance to watch them all.
Now through Thursday, May 25, IndieWire readers have an exclusive opportunity to register for a chance to win an online Festival Pass to screen the 9 short films and one feature in competition. Click Here for the registration form — all you need to enter is your first and last name and a valid email address — and make sure to enter by May 25 for a chance to win. Festival Scope has...
The 2017 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and IndieWire is partnering with Festival Scope for a second year in a row to give readers the chance to bring a part of the event straight to their own homes. This year, our Critics’ Week sweepstakes features 9 short films and one feature in competition. If you aren’t in Cannes, this is your only chance to watch them all.
Now through Thursday, May 25, IndieWire readers have an exclusive opportunity to register for a chance to win an online Festival Pass to screen the 9 short films and one feature in competition. Click Here for the registration form — all you need to enter is your first and last name and a valid email address — and make sure to enter by May 25 for a chance to win. Festival Scope has...
- 5/22/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The lineup for the 2017 Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) has been announced.Opening FILMSicilian Ghost Story (Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza)COMPETITIONLa familia (Gustavo Rondón Córdova)Los perros (Marcela Said)Oh Lucy! (Atsuko Hirayagani)Gabriel e a montanha (Felipe Gamarano Barbosa)Ava (Léa Mysius)Tehran Taboo (Ali Soozandeh)Makala (Emmanuel Gras)Special Feature SCREENINGSBloody Milk (Hubert Charuel)Une vie violente (Thierry de Peretti)Special Short SCREENINGSAfter School Knife Fight (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)Coelho Mau (Carlos Conceição)Les îles (Yann Gonzales)Short & Medium-LENGTHSelva (Sofía Quirós Ubeda)Möbius (Sam Khun)Real Gods Require Blood (Moin Hussain)Jodilerks dela Cruz, Employee of the Month (Carlo Francisco Manatad)Los desheredados (Laura Ferrés)Ela - szkice na pożegnanie (Oliver Adam Kusio)Najpiękniejsze fajerwerki ever (Aleksandra Terpinska)Tesla: Lumière mondiale (Matthew Rankin)Les enfants partent à l'aube (Manon Coubia)Le visage (Salvatore Lista)Closing FILMBrigsby Bear (Dave McCary)...
- 4/26/2017
- MUBI
The 56th edition of the Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar has announced its main program, including seven films screening in competition. The sidebar is dedicated to films coming from first- and second-time filmmakers, and always promises a fertile ground for discovering new and emerging talent. Last year’s breakout title was Julia Ducournau’s horror film “Raw,” which sold to Focus World.
Read More: Cannes 2017 Announces Directors Fortnight Lineup, Including Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’ and ‘Patti Cake$’
The section will open with Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s latest feature, “Sicilian Ghost Story,” which combines the myths of Romeo and Juliet with the present day Sicilian mafia. Dave McCary’s debut “Brigsby Bear,” the Sundance comedy that sold to Sony Pictures Classics, will close out the section.
For the first time in its history, both a documentary and an animated film will screen in competition. Ali Soozandeh’s animated...
Read More: Cannes 2017 Announces Directors Fortnight Lineup, Including Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’ and ‘Patti Cake$’
The section will open with Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s latest feature, “Sicilian Ghost Story,” which combines the myths of Romeo and Juliet with the present day Sicilian mafia. Dave McCary’s debut “Brigsby Bear,” the Sundance comedy that sold to Sony Pictures Classics, will close out the section.
For the first time in its history, both a documentary and an animated film will screen in competition. Ali Soozandeh’s animated...
- 4/21/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Mafia tale Sicilian Ghost Story to open sidebar, Sundance hit Brigsby Bear selected as closer.
Cannes Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features as well as shorts, has unveiled the line-up of its 56th edition, running May 18-26.
Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza will open the selection with their second feature Sicilian Ghost Story, a genre-mixing work following a teenage girl as she searches for the boy she loves after he is kidnapped by the Mafia.
It is inspired by the real-life tale of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of a former Mafia hitman-turned-informant, who was abducted in 1993.
Critics’ Week artistic director Charles Tesson described it as a “staggering crossover between cinema genres, combining politics, fantasy and terrible teen love.”
The directorial duo premiered their debut feature Salvo in competition in Critics’ Week in 2013, winning the €15,000 Nespresso Grand Prize.
The screenplay for Sicilian Ghost Story was developed at the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and went...
Cannes Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features as well as shorts, has unveiled the line-up of its 56th edition, running May 18-26.
Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza will open the selection with their second feature Sicilian Ghost Story, a genre-mixing work following a teenage girl as she searches for the boy she loves after he is kidnapped by the Mafia.
It is inspired by the real-life tale of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of a former Mafia hitman-turned-informant, who was abducted in 1993.
Critics’ Week artistic director Charles Tesson described it as a “staggering crossover between cinema genres, combining politics, fantasy and terrible teen love.”
The directorial duo premiered their debut feature Salvo in competition in Critics’ Week in 2013, winning the €15,000 Nespresso Grand Prize.
The screenplay for Sicilian Ghost Story was developed at the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and went...
- 4/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
After featuring such discoveries as Raw, Mimosas, It Follows, The Tribe, and more in recent years, the Cannes sidebar Critics’ Week have now unveiled their 2017 line-up. Now in their 56th year, the Jury President is Kleber Mendonça Filho, who came to Cannes last year with Aquarius, and he’ll be joined by Niels Schneider, Diana Bustamante Escobar, Hania Mroué and Eric Kohn.
After receiving 1,700 short films and 1,250 feature films, 11 features have been selected, with 6 being first films and 5 being second features, including the closing night film Brigsby Bear, which we reviewed at Sundance. Running from May 18-26, check out the line-up below with a hat tip to Mubi and see more about the films here.
Opening Film
Sicilian Ghost Story (Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza)
Competition
La familia (Gustavo Rondon)
Los perros (Marcela Said)
Oh Lucy! (Atsuko Hirayagani)
Gabriel e a montanha (Felipe Gamarano Barbosa)
Ava (Lea Mysius)
Tehran Taboo (Ali Soozandeh...
After receiving 1,700 short films and 1,250 feature films, 11 features have been selected, with 6 being first films and 5 being second features, including the closing night film Brigsby Bear, which we reviewed at Sundance. Running from May 18-26, check out the line-up below with a hat tip to Mubi and see more about the films here.
Opening Film
Sicilian Ghost Story (Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza)
Competition
La familia (Gustavo Rondon)
Los perros (Marcela Said)
Oh Lucy! (Atsuko Hirayagani)
Gabriel e a montanha (Felipe Gamarano Barbosa)
Ava (Lea Mysius)
Tehran Taboo (Ali Soozandeh...
- 4/21/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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