Until Ruth Negga was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for her portrayal of Mildred Loving in the 2017 movie, Loving, you might not have known who the actress was. In fact, you may still not know who she is. Ruth Negga, who has also appeared in Iona (2015), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013-2015), can currently be seen on the August 2017 cover of Town and Country, as well as on AMC’s Preacher. For anyone who is unfamiliar with this rising star, here are 5 things you didn’t know about Ruth Negga. She traveled
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- 7/2/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Here's the full list of winners of the London Film Critics' Circle. Winners will be announced on January 22:
The full list of nominees is below:
Film Of The Year
American Honey
Fire at Sea
I, Daniel Blake
La La Land
Love & Friendship
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Nocturnal Animals
Son of Saul
Toni Erdmann
Foreign-language Film Of The Year
Fire at Sea
Son of Saul
Things to Come
Toni Erdmann
Victoria
Documentary Of The Year
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week . The Touring Years
Cameraperson
The Eagle Huntress
Fire at Sea
Life, Animated
British/Irish Film Of The Year
American Honey
High-Rise
I, Daniel Blake
Love & Friendship
Sing Street
Actor Of The Year
Casey Affleck . Manchester by the Sea
Adam Driver . Paterson
Andrew Garfield . Hacksaw Ridge
Jake Gyllenhaal . Nocturnal Animals
Peter Simonischek . Toni Erdmann
Actress Of The Year
Amy Adams . Arrival
Kate Beckinsale . Love & Friendship
Sandra Hüller . Toni Erdmann...
The full list of nominees is below:
Film Of The Year
American Honey
Fire at Sea
I, Daniel Blake
La La Land
Love & Friendship
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Nocturnal Animals
Son of Saul
Toni Erdmann
Foreign-language Film Of The Year
Fire at Sea
Son of Saul
Things to Come
Toni Erdmann
Victoria
Documentary Of The Year
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week . The Touring Years
Cameraperson
The Eagle Huntress
Fire at Sea
Life, Animated
British/Irish Film Of The Year
American Honey
High-Rise
I, Daniel Blake
Love & Friendship
Sing Street
Actor Of The Year
Casey Affleck . Manchester by the Sea
Adam Driver . Paterson
Andrew Garfield . Hacksaw Ridge
Jake Gyllenhaal . Nocturnal Animals
Peter Simonischek . Toni Erdmann
Actress Of The Year
Amy Adams . Arrival
Kate Beckinsale . Love & Friendship
Sandra Hüller . Toni Erdmann...
- 12/21/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The fantastic Ruth Negga from "Loving" is being honored (deservingly I might add), at the upcoming Palm Springs International Film Festival! I sat down with the actress for "Loving," take a look at my interview:
And here's why you have to see "Loving":
Here's the full press release from the Palm Springs International Film Festival:
Palm Springs, CA (November 16, 2016) . The 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Ruth Negga with the Rising Star Award at its annualRuth NeggaFilm Awards Gala for her performance in Loving. The Film Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, will be held Monday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Festival runs January 2-16.
.Ruth Negga.s performance as Mildred Loving is one of the year.s most luminous and striking portrayals,. said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner. .This timeless love story about an interracial couple reminds us of the unstoppable power...
And here's why you have to see "Loving":
Here's the full press release from the Palm Springs International Film Festival:
Palm Springs, CA (November 16, 2016) . The 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Ruth Negga with the Rising Star Award at its annualRuth NeggaFilm Awards Gala for her performance in Loving. The Film Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, will be held Monday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Festival runs January 2-16.
.Ruth Negga.s performance as Mildred Loving is one of the year.s most luminous and striking portrayals,. said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner. .This timeless love story about an interracial couple reminds us of the unstoppable power...
- 11/21/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Twenty-two emerging producers to receive up to £2.2m; almost 500 applicants.Scroll Down For Recipients
The BFI has announced the recipients of its 2016-18 Vision Awards, comprising 22 investments in up-and-coming UK producers.
The awards, generally spread over two years, are designed to enable producers to build and develop their companies, slates and creative relationships.
The BFI had intended to give 20 awards but increased that allocation to 22 in response to the number of strong applications it received. Almost 500 companies applied for the awards, which are backed by a total commitment from the BFI of £2.2m of National Lottery funding.
Fifteen of the awards are to women producers or partnerships, while eight of the companies are based outside of London, located in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and York.
In a bid to foster sustainability, the third iteration of the Vision Awards will include an allowance to cover a producer’s fees and overheads of up to half...
The BFI has announced the recipients of its 2016-18 Vision Awards, comprising 22 investments in up-and-coming UK producers.
The awards, generally spread over two years, are designed to enable producers to build and develop their companies, slates and creative relationships.
The BFI had intended to give 20 awards but increased that allocation to 22 in response to the number of strong applications it received. Almost 500 companies applied for the awards, which are backed by a total commitment from the BFI of £2.2m of National Lottery funding.
Fifteen of the awards are to women producers or partnerships, while eight of the companies are based outside of London, located in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and York.
In a bid to foster sustainability, the third iteration of the Vision Awards will include an allowance to cover a producer’s fees and overheads of up to half...
- 8/24/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
All this week, IndieWire will be rolling out our annual Fall Preview, including offerings that span genres, a close examination of some of the year’s biggest breakouts, all the awards contenders you need to know about now and special attention to all the new movies you need to get through a jam-packed fall movie-going season. Check back every day for a new look at the best the season has to offer, and clear your schedule, because we’re going to fill it right up.
“White Girl,” September 2 – Elizabeth Wood, Writer and Director
Elizabeth Wood’s feature film debut was almost immediately deemed “shocking!” and “racy!” and “wild!” as soon as it debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but underneath a film about throwing caution to the wind in the pursuit of both terrible decisions and the capricious joys of youth beats a big, honest heart. Wood’s...
“White Girl,” September 2 – Elizabeth Wood, Writer and Director
Elizabeth Wood’s feature film debut was almost immediately deemed “shocking!” and “racy!” and “wild!” as soon as it debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but underneath a film about throwing caution to the wind in the pursuit of both terrible decisions and the capricious joys of youth beats a big, honest heart. Wood’s...
- 8/16/2016
- by Kate Erbland, Chris O'Falt, David Ehrlich, Steve Greene and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Boudica is headed by co-financiers of seven films including The Falling and Iona.
Boudica, Europe’s first film finance initiative aimed at female-centric films, has launched at the Cannes Film Festival.
The initiative, which is supported by Women in Film & TV (UK), will offer production and completion finance for films that meet a number of criteria with the aim of increasing the employment of women in the film industry.
Boudica is headed by Rebecca Long and Ian Davies, who have co-financed seven films including The Falling and Iona.
“We agree with the recent report of Directors UK that there is an “unconscious, systemic bias” towards male directors and it’s been well documented that there is a similar under-representation forwomen in other crew departments and in terms of lead protagonists in films. We hope that our investment will play a role, albeit a very small one, in helping address this issue,” commented Long.
Boudica...
Boudica, Europe’s first film finance initiative aimed at female-centric films, has launched at the Cannes Film Festival.
The initiative, which is supported by Women in Film & TV (UK), will offer production and completion finance for films that meet a number of criteria with the aim of increasing the employment of women in the film industry.
Boudica is headed by Rebecca Long and Ian Davies, who have co-financed seven films including The Falling and Iona.
“We agree with the recent report of Directors UK that there is an “unconscious, systemic bias” towards male directors and it’s been well documented that there is a similar under-representation forwomen in other crew departments and in terms of lead protagonists in films. We hope that our investment will play a role, albeit a very small one, in helping address this issue,” commented Long.
Boudica...
- 5/17/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The BFI has said it expects to allocate 50% of its funding to women directors by 2020 - and is considering covering childcare costs for some writers and directors.
Speaking in Cannes, the British Film Institute (BFI) has said that it expects 50% of its funding to go to women directors before 2020.
BFI CEO Amanda Nevill and BFI Film Fund director Ben Roberts were among industry taking part in a diversity panel hosted by Directors UK, which earlier this month released a report calling for 50:50 public funding for women directors by 2020.
According to the report, in the decade from 2004 to 2014, only 13.6% of working film directors in the UK were women. It claimed an “unconscious, systemic bias” towards male directors in UK.
“We agree with the 50:50 [target]” said Nevill in Cannes. “In terms of the films we fund, we will do it together before 2020.”
“Targets are important because they help message to the world that we are open and equal...
Speaking in Cannes, the British Film Institute (BFI) has said that it expects 50% of its funding to go to women directors before 2020.
BFI CEO Amanda Nevill and BFI Film Fund director Ben Roberts were among industry taking part in a diversity panel hosted by Directors UK, which earlier this month released a report calling for 50:50 public funding for women directors by 2020.
According to the report, in the decade from 2004 to 2014, only 13.6% of working film directors in the UK were women. It claimed an “unconscious, systemic bias” towards male directors in UK.
“We agree with the 50:50 [target]” said Nevill in Cannes. “In terms of the films we fund, we will do it together before 2020.”
“Targets are important because they help message to the world that we are open and equal...
- 5/16/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A woman and her son return to the isolated religious community of her youth in this atmospheric drama
Strong performances and eye-catching location photography lift this uneven Hebridean drama, recut since its Edinburgh film festival premiere last year. Returning to the island from which she takes her name, Iona (Ruth Negga) and young son Billy (Ben Gallacher) awaken sleeping resentments in an incestuously tight-knit religious community. Thoughts of damnation and the suggestion of miracles sit side by side, hinting at a bigger picture that never quite comes into focus in this flawed but atmospheric work from Shell writer-director Scott Graham.
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Strong performances and eye-catching location photography lift this uneven Hebridean drama, recut since its Edinburgh film festival premiere last year. Returning to the island from which she takes her name, Iona (Ruth Negga) and young son Billy (Ben Gallacher) awaken sleeping resentments in an incestuously tight-knit religious community. Thoughts of damnation and the suggestion of miracles sit side by side, hinting at a bigger picture that never quite comes into focus in this flawed but atmospheric work from Shell writer-director Scott Graham.
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- 3/27/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
★★☆☆☆ Scottish director Scott Graham follows up his impressive, underseen debut Shell with Iona, a similarly sombre tale of isolation and familial relations. A film inspired as much by the dark sophistication of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet as the spiritual clash of cultures in Peter Weir's Witness, Graham's rural study of guilt, faith and redemption is swaddled in an alluring mist of mystery yet lacking in narrative lucidity. The film's title refers to both its central character and its Hebridean setting. The story begins with Iona (Ruth Negga) and her son Billy (Ben Gallagher) on the run, travelling to the remote island she's named after.
- 3/25/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Iona’s untamed landscape provides the backdrop for this striking film about the aftermath of a violent relationship
A young woman who left an island community as a damaged teenager returns to her childhood home with a secret and her own troubled adolescent son. The remarkable Ruth Negga is a potent presence as the eponymous central character, who was named after the Hebridean island where the story unfolds. Iona, we learn through flashbacks, is fleeing the aftermath of a violent relationship. Her son Billy – or Bull as he prefers to be called – is a taciturn 15-year-old who thrashes in his sleep, soaked in the sweat of the night terrors that plague him. As with his feature debut Shell, writer/director Scott Graham here captures the tensions peculiar to an isolated community. Iona – the film as well as the central character – is complicated by prickly questions of religious faith. It’s a striking piece,...
A young woman who left an island community as a damaged teenager returns to her childhood home with a secret and her own troubled adolescent son. The remarkable Ruth Negga is a potent presence as the eponymous central character, who was named after the Hebridean island where the story unfolds. Iona, we learn through flashbacks, is fleeing the aftermath of a violent relationship. Her son Billy – or Bull as he prefers to be called – is a taciturn 15-year-old who thrashes in his sleep, soaked in the sweat of the night terrors that plague him. As with his feature debut Shell, writer/director Scott Graham here captures the tensions peculiar to an isolated community. Iona – the film as well as the central character – is complicated by prickly questions of religious faith. It’s a striking piece,...
- 3/24/2016
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Iona’s untamed landscape provides the backdrop for this striking film about the aftermath of a violent relationship
A young woman who left an island community as a damaged teenager returns to her childhood home with a secret and her own troubled adolescent son. The remarkable Ruth Negga is a potent presence as the eponymous central character, who was named after the Hebridean island where the story unfolds. Iona, we learn through flashbacks, is fleeing the aftermath of a violent relationship. Her son Billy – or Bull as he prefers to be called – is a taciturn 15-year-old who thrashes in his sleep, soaked in the sweat of the night terrors that plague him. As with his feature debut Shell, writer/director Scott Graham here captures the tensions peculiar to an isolated community. Iona – the film as well as the central character – is complicated by prickly questions of religious faith. It’s a striking piece,...
A young woman who left an island community as a damaged teenager returns to her childhood home with a secret and her own troubled adolescent son. The remarkable Ruth Negga is a potent presence as the eponymous central character, who was named after the Hebridean island where the story unfolds. Iona, we learn through flashbacks, is fleeing the aftermath of a violent relationship. Her son Billy – or Bull as he prefers to be called – is a taciturn 15-year-old who thrashes in his sleep, soaked in the sweat of the night terrors that plague him. As with his feature debut Shell, writer/director Scott Graham here captures the tensions peculiar to an isolated community. Iona – the film as well as the central character – is complicated by prickly questions of religious faith. It’s a striking piece,...
- 3/24/2016
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Iona (Ruth Negga) on the sidelines
"I've been writing for three months, so this is the most I've heard my voice for a long time... It's a bit strange." The voice in question, which, incidentally, isn't at all strange, belongs to writer and director Scott Graham, whose second film, Iona, is out on Friday. Graham's debut, Shell, was released to critical and festival circuit acclaim and garnered a BAFTA nomination; however the memory of Shell is bittersweet for the director, who wrote a list of all the things he would change about the film after it was released. He still has the list. Yet, in making Iona, Graham now says he can appreciate Shell for what it is, and is proud of the film. This dissatisfaction indicates the obsessiveness of the perfectionist filmmaker - never happy with the cut, always looking at things to be improved.
And this may be borne out by the.
"I've been writing for three months, so this is the most I've heard my voice for a long time... It's a bit strange." The voice in question, which, incidentally, isn't at all strange, belongs to writer and director Scott Graham, whose second film, Iona, is out on Friday. Graham's debut, Shell, was released to critical and festival circuit acclaim and garnered a BAFTA nomination; however the memory of Shell is bittersweet for the director, who wrote a list of all the things he would change about the film after it was released. He still has the list. Yet, in making Iona, Graham now says he can appreciate Shell for what it is, and is proud of the film. This dissatisfaction indicates the obsessiveness of the perfectionist filmmaker - never happy with the cut, always looking at things to be improved.
And this may be borne out by the.
- 3/24/2016
- by Robert Munro
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
From small parts in 12 Years a Slave and Misfits to starring roles in AMC’s upcoming TV series Preacher and hotly tipped new films Iona and Loving, the actor talks industry diversity and complex characters
On a bright winter morning, actor Ruth Negga sits in the corner of a Soho restaurant, arms folded over a jumper on which two embroidered swifts are wheeling across a grey sky. Although she had small parts in 12 Years a Slave and World War Z, and recurring ones in Misfits and Marvel’s Agents of Shield, she enjoys relative anonymity. This time next year – after the release of a film (Loving) that has already been named a contender for the Oscars, as well as a TV series (Preacher) from the makers of Breaking Bad – it will not be so easy.
Yet Negga, 33, does not appear to be at ease today. She speaks cautiously, in a gentle Limerick lilt,...
On a bright winter morning, actor Ruth Negga sits in the corner of a Soho restaurant, arms folded over a jumper on which two embroidered swifts are wheeling across a grey sky. Although she had small parts in 12 Years a Slave and World War Z, and recurring ones in Misfits and Marvel’s Agents of Shield, she enjoys relative anonymity. This time next year – after the release of a film (Loving) that has already been named a contender for the Oscars, as well as a TV series (Preacher) from the makers of Breaking Bad – it will not be so easy.
Yet Negga, 33, does not appear to be at ease today. She speaks cautiously, in a gentle Limerick lilt,...
- 3/17/2016
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Sommerlatte’s debut Summers Downstairs (Im Sommer wohnt er unten) was picked by the audience at this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sep 16-20) for the German Independence Award.
The French-German co-production, handled internationally by Arri Worldsales, premiered in the Berlinale’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar in February, won Best Feature Film at the Achtung Berlin! festival in April, and was the opening film of Filmfest Schwerin in May.
There were double honours for Sommerlatte at the closing night gala on Sunday (Sep 20) when the nomination jury for the European Film Awards’ European Discovery - Prix Fipresci announced that Summers Downstairs had been chosen as one of five finalists.
The Seymour Cassel Award - in honour of one of Oldenburg’s aficianados - was shared this year for the first time between two actors: actress Sarah Silverman for her performance in I Smile Back and former European Shooting Star Nikola Rakočević for his role in...
The French-German co-production, handled internationally by Arri Worldsales, premiered in the Berlinale’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar in February, won Best Feature Film at the Achtung Berlin! festival in April, and was the opening film of Filmfest Schwerin in May.
There were double honours for Sommerlatte at the closing night gala on Sunday (Sep 20) when the nomination jury for the European Film Awards’ European Discovery - Prix Fipresci announced that Summers Downstairs had been chosen as one of five finalists.
The Seymour Cassel Award - in honour of one of Oldenburg’s aficianados - was shared this year for the first time between two actors: actress Sarah Silverman for her performance in I Smile Back and former European Shooting Star Nikola Rakočević for his role in...
- 9/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Ruth Negga stars in "Iona," a film directed by Scott Graham, which made its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland's largest film festival, in May, as its closing night film. Described as "part coming-of-age story and part returning-home drama" the film follows the titular character (played by Negga) and her teenage son Bull, as they seek refuge from a violent crime on the island where she was born. Iona’s return exposes Bull to a way of life she rejected as a teenager and sends a shock wave through the family she left behind. Shot entirely on location in Scotland, "Iona" also stars Tom Brooke, Michelle...
- 7/28/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Read More: San Sebastian Film Festival Announces 2015 Competition TitlesThe San Sebastian Film Festival has announced the 13 titles competing for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, which will be decided by a specific international jury and carry a prize of 50,000 euro. The section will present first or second works by filmmakers from all over the world and shed light on new emerging talent. The competing titles for the New Directors Award are as follows: "After Eden" (Canada) Dir: Hans Christian Berger "Barash" (Israel) Dir: Michal Vinik "One of Us" (Austria) Dir: Stephan Richter "Granny's Dancing on the Table" (Sweden, Denmark) Dir: Hanna Skold "Iona" (UK, Germany) Dir: Scott Graham "Thirst" (Bulgaria) Dir: Tsotsorkova Svetla "The New Kid" (France) Dir: Rudi Rosenberg "Parasol" (Belgium) Dir: Valery...
- 7/28/2015
- by Sarah Choi
- Indiewire
The 13 films competing for a $55,000 prize include Scott Graham’s Iona and Hans Christian Berger’s After Eden.Scroll down for full line-up
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) has revealed the 13 films competing for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, which includes a prize of $55,000 (€50,000).
The New Directors section, comprising first or second works by international filmmakers, includes Iona, Scott Graham’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Shell, which world premiered at San Sebastian in 2012.
Iona stars Ruth Negga as the title character who takes her teenage son to the island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime.
New Directors line-up
Synopses provided by the festival
After Eden
Hans Christian Berger (Canada)
A tale of love and temptation in the age of Internet pornography. A reclusive university student tracks down his favourite porn star in the real world and becomes her anonymous follower - until he finds the courage to connect in person...
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) has revealed the 13 films competing for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, which includes a prize of $55,000 (€50,000).
The New Directors section, comprising first or second works by international filmmakers, includes Iona, Scott Graham’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Shell, which world premiered at San Sebastian in 2012.
Iona stars Ruth Negga as the title character who takes her teenage son to the island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime.
New Directors line-up
Synopses provided by the festival
After Eden
Hans Christian Berger (Canada)
A tale of love and temptation in the age of Internet pornography. A reclusive university student tracks down his favourite porn star in the real world and becomes her anonymous follower - until he finds the courage to connect in person...
- 7/28/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival drew to a close with Iona (2015), Scott Graham's follow-up to his much praised debut feature Shell (2012). Set against the beautiful, isolated terrain of the titular Scottish island, Iona retains much of the previous film's affinity for avocative cinematography and the hidden, often unarticulated troubles lurking within, even if its narrative doesn't prove to be quite as interesting. After a brutal crime, Iona (Ruth Negga) escapes Glasgow with her teenage son Bull (Ben Gallagher) and seeks refuge on her namesake island, where she finds safety with Daniel (Douglas Henshaw).
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival drew to a close with Iona (2015), Scott Graham's follow-up to his much praised debut feature Shell (2012). Set against the beautiful, isolated terrain of the titular Scottish island, Iona retains much of the previous film's affinity for avocative cinematography and the hidden, often unarticulated troubles lurking within, even if its narrative doesn't prove to be quite as interesting. After a brutal crime, Iona (Ruth Negga) escapes Glasgow with her teenage son Bull (Ben Gallagher) and seeks refuge on her namesake island, where she finds safety with Daniel (Douglas Henshaw).
- 6/30/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Big Gold Dream won Audience Award at Eiff Edinburgh International Film Festival this evening announced Scottish actor James Cosmo and director/actor Karen Gillan have accepted the role of Eiff Honorary Patrons as the Festival heads into its 70th anniversary year. They join existing Eiff Honorary Patrons Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Seamus McGarvey and Mark Cousins.
The 69th edition of Eiff drew to a close with the World Premiere of Scott Graham’s Iona, and leading lady Ruth Negga was joined by fellow cast members in attendance on the red carpet.
Eiff Artistic Director Mark Adams said: “We are thrilled to add two Scottish luminaries to our illustrious troop of Eiff Honorary Patrons. James Cosmo is a powerhouse of acting fortitude, acknowledged this year by the Michael Powell Jury, and Karen Gillan is not only a star onscreen - her directorial debut at Eiff has shown her talents also extend behind the camera.
The 69th edition of Eiff drew to a close with the World Premiere of Scott Graham’s Iona, and leading lady Ruth Negga was joined by fellow cast members in attendance on the red carpet.
Eiff Artistic Director Mark Adams said: “We are thrilled to add two Scottish luminaries to our illustrious troop of Eiff Honorary Patrons. James Cosmo is a powerhouse of acting fortitude, acknowledged this year by the Michael Powell Jury, and Karen Gillan is not only a star onscreen - her directorial debut at Eiff has shown her talents also extend behind the camera.
- 6/28/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film goes to Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years.
The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival has gone to Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, which received its UK premiere at the festival.
The film follows an eldery married couple (Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) in the five days leading up to their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. After the body of the husband’s first love is discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps, their relationship becomes strained.
The award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film was shared between James Cosmo for his performance in The Pyramid Texts and Charlotte Rampling for her performance in 45 Years.
The Michael Powell Jury, which also awarded the main acting prize, was chaired by La Times film critic Kenneth Turan.
The award for Best International Feature Film went to Marielle Heller’s [link...
The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival has gone to Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, which received its UK premiere at the festival.
The film follows an eldery married couple (Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) in the five days leading up to their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. After the body of the husband’s first love is discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps, their relationship becomes strained.
The award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film was shared between James Cosmo for his performance in The Pyramid Texts and Charlotte Rampling for her performance in 45 Years.
The Michael Powell Jury, which also awarded the main acting prize, was chaired by La Times film critic Kenneth Turan.
The award for Best International Feature Film went to Marielle Heller’s [link...
- 6/26/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
When she joined Creative Scotland as Director, Film And Media, last summer, Natalie Usher already had an intimate involvement with several of the films that Creative Scotland was backing.
As a senior film lawyer in the Film & TV Group at Lee & Thompson, Usher had been working on both the opening and closing films at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival: Robert Carlyle’s The Legend Of Barney Thomson and Scott Graham’s Iona.
“For me, this is personally a very interesting and exciting festival because a number of films I worked on as a lawyer, Creative Scotland also invested in and now they are here.”
Usher has come into her job at Creative Scotland at a time when the Scottish film industry looks set for a major resurgence.
Plans for a large scale Scottish studio are edging slow but surely forward. Meanwhile, at the Scottish Film Summit during Eiff earlier this week, Scottish culture...
As a senior film lawyer in the Film & TV Group at Lee & Thompson, Usher had been working on both the opening and closing films at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival: Robert Carlyle’s The Legend Of Barney Thomson and Scott Graham’s Iona.
“For me, this is personally a very interesting and exciting festival because a number of films I worked on as a lawyer, Creative Scotland also invested in and now they are here.”
Usher has come into her job at Creative Scotland at a time when the Scottish film industry looks set for a major resurgence.
Plans for a large scale Scottish studio are edging slow but surely forward. Meanwhile, at the Scottish Film Summit during Eiff earlier this week, Scottish culture...
- 6/22/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Verve picks up UK rights to Scott Graham’s Shell follow-up.
Verve Pictures has acquired UK rights to Scott Graham’s Shell follow-up Iona, which will get its world premiere as the closing night film of the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Iona follows a young woman and her teenage son who flee Glasgow seeking refuge from a violent crime.
Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Michelle Duncan, Tom Brooke, Ben Gallagher and Sorcha Groundsell star in the film which is a BFI and Creative Scotland presentation.
The Bard Entertainments production was made in association with Boudica Silver and co-produced with Hanfgarn & Ufer and Zdf in co-operation with Arte.
Colin Burch, managing director of Verve Pictures commented: “We are delighted to be releasing ‘Iona’ and to be working again with Scott Graham and Margaret Matheson. Iona is a wonderful film that fulfills the great promise shown in Shell”.
Verve Pictures has acquired UK rights to Scott Graham’s Shell follow-up Iona, which will get its world premiere as the closing night film of the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Iona follows a young woman and her teenage son who flee Glasgow seeking refuge from a violent crime.
Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Michelle Duncan, Tom Brooke, Ben Gallagher and Sorcha Groundsell star in the film which is a BFI and Creative Scotland presentation.
The Bard Entertainments production was made in association with Boudica Silver and co-produced with Hanfgarn & Ufer and Zdf in co-operation with Arte.
Colin Burch, managing director of Verve Pictures commented: “We are delighted to be releasing ‘Iona’ and to be working again with Scott Graham and Margaret Matheson. Iona is a wonderful film that fulfills the great promise shown in Shell”.
- 6/19/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Edinburgh International Film Festival unveils juries and guests for 2015 edition.
The 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) (June 17-28) has revealed the juries that will judge its five award categories - The Michael Powell Award for Best British Film; Best Performance in a British Feature; Best International Feature; Best Documentary; and Best Short Film.
Jurors include:
Karen Gillan, actressNatascha McElhone, actressKenneth Turan, film criticAmy Berg, directorArchie Panjabi, actressKyle Patrick Alvarez, directorJessica Hynes, actressDenis Lawson, actorJacqueline Lyanga, AFI film festival directorDolly Wells, actress.
Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy star Gillan will see her dirctorial debut - short film Coward - screened at the Festival.
Us director Berg’s films Prophet’s Prey and Every Secret Thing will screen at Eiff while Alverez will see his feature, The Stanford Prison Experiment, shown at the Festival.
Wells stars in Black Mountain Poets, 45 Years and Doll & Em 2, all showing at this year’s festival.
Other awards...
The 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) (June 17-28) has revealed the juries that will judge its five award categories - The Michael Powell Award for Best British Film; Best Performance in a British Feature; Best International Feature; Best Documentary; and Best Short Film.
Jurors include:
Karen Gillan, actressNatascha McElhone, actressKenneth Turan, film criticAmy Berg, directorArchie Panjabi, actressKyle Patrick Alvarez, directorJessica Hynes, actressDenis Lawson, actorJacqueline Lyanga, AFI film festival directorDolly Wells, actress.
Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy star Gillan will see her dirctorial debut - short film Coward - screened at the Festival.
Us director Berg’s films Prophet’s Prey and Every Secret Thing will screen at Eiff while Alverez will see his feature, The Stanford Prison Experiment, shown at the Festival.
Wells stars in Black Mountain Poets, 45 Years and Doll & Em 2, all showing at this year’s festival.
Other awards...
- 6/5/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Discussions to cover development, financing, exhibition and sustainability, and will include a new distribution market.
The Edinbugh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the line-up of industry events set to take place alongside this year’s festival.
Nine days of events will be held at the Eiff Delegate Centre at the Traverse Theatre from June 18.
Topics to be discussed will range from development and financing through to exhibition and sustainability.
There will be a number of events aimed at offering support and advice to emerging writers, directors and producers including two sessions hosted by partners of the BFI Net.Work looking at progressing from shorts to features.
Representatives from Creative England, Film London and the Scottish Film Talent Network will take part in the events including an opportunity for filmmakers to practice their feature pitch to get feedback on making their future applications stronger.
There will be events focussing on areas of interest specifically for producers...
The Edinbugh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the line-up of industry events set to take place alongside this year’s festival.
Nine days of events will be held at the Eiff Delegate Centre at the Traverse Theatre from June 18.
Topics to be discussed will range from development and financing through to exhibition and sustainability.
There will be a number of events aimed at offering support and advice to emerging writers, directors and producers including two sessions hosted by partners of the BFI Net.Work looking at progressing from shorts to features.
Representatives from Creative England, Film London and the Scottish Film Talent Network will take part in the events including an opportunity for filmmakers to practice their feature pitch to get feedback on making their future applications stronger.
There will be events focussing on areas of interest specifically for producers...
- 6/3/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ewan McGregor, Jane Seymour, Malcolm McDowell and Hong Kong director Johnnie To among the guests set to attend the festival.Scroll down for competition titles
The line-up for the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by new artistic director Mark Adams.
This year’s Eiff (June 17-28) will comprise 164 features from 36 countries, including 24 world premieres, eight international premieres, 16 European premieres and 84 UK premieres.
Highlights including the UK premiere of Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy, about the life of singer Amy Winehouse; the latest Disney-Pixar animation Inside Out; Arnold Schwarzenegger in zombie drama Maggie; comedy The D-Train, starring Jack Black and James Marsden; and a biopic of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Love & Mercy, in which John Cusack and Paul Dano play different aged versions of the musician.
Classic Screenings will include a rare outing for Noel Marshall’s Roar, a cult 1981 big cat movie.
Star power
This year’s Eiff will present...
The line-up for the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by new artistic director Mark Adams.
This year’s Eiff (June 17-28) will comprise 164 features from 36 countries, including 24 world premieres, eight international premieres, 16 European premieres and 84 UK premieres.
Highlights including the UK premiere of Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy, about the life of singer Amy Winehouse; the latest Disney-Pixar animation Inside Out; Arnold Schwarzenegger in zombie drama Maggie; comedy The D-Train, starring Jack Black and James Marsden; and a biopic of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Love & Mercy, in which John Cusack and Paul Dano play different aged versions of the musician.
Classic Screenings will include a rare outing for Noel Marshall’s Roar, a cult 1981 big cat movie.
Star power
This year’s Eiff will present...
- 5/27/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ruth Negga is one of those actors who's managed to remain quite active on both sides of the Atlantic. A film I'm only learning about today, the Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland's largest film festival, has announced that it will close this year's event with the world premiere of "Iona," a drama directed by Scott Graham, starring Ruth Negga in what is described as "part coming-of-age story and part returning-home drama" and follows the titular character (Negga) as she returns to her birthplace namesake with her son to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Shot entirely on location in Scotland, "Iona" also stars Tom...
- 5/12/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Scott Graham’s drama stars Ruth Negga of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) is to close with the world premiere of Scott Graham’s Iona on June 28 at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh.
Shot entirely on location in Scotland, the film stars Ruth Negga (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Douglas Henshall (Shetland), Tom Brooke (The Boat That Rocked) and Michelle Duncan (Atonement), with debuts by two Scottish actors, Ben Gallagher and Sorcha Groundsell.
Iona is director Graham’s second film following his award winning Shell in 2012.
Graham said: ‘I discovered many films and filmmakers at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Edinburgh was my home all through my twenties and it was in venues like Filmhouse and the Cameo where I learned the value of the stories we tell and the emotions we share.
“I’m thrilled Iona will have its premiere here and doubly thrilled it will...
The 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) is to close with the world premiere of Scott Graham’s Iona on June 28 at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh.
Shot entirely on location in Scotland, the film stars Ruth Negga (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Douglas Henshall (Shetland), Tom Brooke (The Boat That Rocked) and Michelle Duncan (Atonement), with debuts by two Scottish actors, Ben Gallagher and Sorcha Groundsell.
Iona is director Graham’s second film following his award winning Shell in 2012.
Graham said: ‘I discovered many films and filmmakers at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Edinburgh was my home all through my twenties and it was in venues like Filmhouse and the Cameo where I learned the value of the stories we tell and the emotions we share.
“I’m thrilled Iona will have its premiere here and doubly thrilled it will...
- 5/11/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A woman returns to the island that is her namesake with her teenage son in Iona - which will close Eiff 2015 Photo: Courtesy of Eiff Scott Graham’s Iona has been announced as the closing film of the 69th edition of Edinburgh Film Festival on Sunday June 28 at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, where it will receive its world premiere.
Shell director Graham's second feature is described as "part coming-of-age story and part returning-home drama", that tells the story of Iona - returning to the Island where she was born (and after which she was named) with her teenage son Bull to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Iona's return exposes Bull to a way of life she rejected when she left the island as a teenager and sends a shockwave through her family.
Shot entirely on location in Scotland, the film stars Ruth Negga (Marvel’s Agents of S.
Shell director Graham's second feature is described as "part coming-of-age story and part returning-home drama", that tells the story of Iona - returning to the Island where she was born (and after which she was named) with her teenage son Bull to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Iona's return exposes Bull to a way of life she rejected when she left the island as a teenager and sends a shockwave through her family.
Shot entirely on location in Scotland, the film stars Ruth Negga (Marvel’s Agents of S.
- 5/11/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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