UK distributor Soda Pictures has teamed with the BFI, film education programme Into Film, UK children’s festivals and indie exhibitors to launch Children’s Cinema Club, an initiative to boost the number of independent children’s films on release in the UK.
Four films will be selected for distribution by a panel of 12 curators and programmers including Mike Tait from Discovery Film Festival in Dundee; Chris Shaw from Cinemagic in Belfast; Joan Parsons from Showcomotion in Sheffield; Gemma Woolley from Zoom Cymru in Wales; Ian Francis from Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham; and Nicky Beaumont from Brighton’s Cine City, alongside Simon Ward from the Independent Cinema Office, Leah Byrne from Picturehouse Cinemas, Susie Evans from the Barbican, Kate Gerova from Birds Eye View Film Festival; Moira McVean from Into Film; and Soda MD Edward Fletcher.
The partners will collaborate on the acquisitions, press and marketing for the films.
Sally Hodgson of [link...
Four films will be selected for distribution by a panel of 12 curators and programmers including Mike Tait from Discovery Film Festival in Dundee; Chris Shaw from Cinemagic in Belfast; Joan Parsons from Showcomotion in Sheffield; Gemma Woolley from Zoom Cymru in Wales; Ian Francis from Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham; and Nicky Beaumont from Brighton’s Cine City, alongside Simon Ward from the Independent Cinema Office, Leah Byrne from Picturehouse Cinemas, Susie Evans from the Barbican, Kate Gerova from Birds Eye View Film Festival; Moira McVean from Into Film; and Soda MD Edward Fletcher.
The partners will collaborate on the acquisitions, press and marketing for the films.
Sally Hodgson of [link...
- 8/8/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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