The British Independent Film Awards has selected 17 producers to participate in its Springboard programme assisting filmmakers beyond their first feature.
They include Savannah James-Bayly, producer of Amrou Al-Kadhi’s Layla through her company Fox Cub Films. James-Bayly also runs Teen Club with Loran Dunn and Sorcha Bacon, with the company focusing on commercial, positive, queer content for young audiences.
Nisha Mullea, executive producer at Caviar London, is also selected, having recently produced Sasha Nathwani’s Last Swim, winner of the Crystal Bear for best feature film in the Generation 14plus section at the Berlinale.
The programme runs from May 2024 until...
They include Savannah James-Bayly, producer of Amrou Al-Kadhi’s Layla through her company Fox Cub Films. James-Bayly also runs Teen Club with Loran Dunn and Sorcha Bacon, with the company focusing on commercial, positive, queer content for young audiences.
Nisha Mullea, executive producer at Caviar London, is also selected, having recently produced Sasha Nathwani’s Last Swim, winner of the Crystal Bear for best feature film in the Generation 14plus section at the Berlinale.
The programme runs from May 2024 until...
- 5/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Ania Trzebiatowska has compiled an eclectic selection of fiction and non-fiction titles for the third annual Sands International Film Festival, which kicked off Friday evening in St Andrews, Scotland.
Mounted across this weekend in the ancient university town, Trzebiatowska — also a full-time programmer at Sundance — runs the festival with an impressive gang of part-time student programmers from the University of St. Andrews, a partner on the festival alongside Joe and Anthony Russo’s Agbo. The Avengers: Endgame filmmakers are connected to the town through Joe’s eldest daughter, who studied at St Andrews. The two Russos were in the building this evening.
“I love the energy of this town. I love how warm everyone is and how enthusiastic the students are,” Joe Russo said opening the event. “It permeates the experience of being here. And it’s such an incredible backdrop for the festival for those reasons. It’s great...
Mounted across this weekend in the ancient university town, Trzebiatowska — also a full-time programmer at Sundance — runs the festival with an impressive gang of part-time student programmers from the University of St. Andrews, a partner on the festival alongside Joe and Anthony Russo’s Agbo. The Avengers: Endgame filmmakers are connected to the town through Joe’s eldest daughter, who studied at St Andrews. The two Russos were in the building this evening.
“I love the energy of this town. I love how warm everyone is and how enthusiastic the students are,” Joe Russo said opening the event. “It permeates the experience of being here. And it’s such an incredible backdrop for the festival for those reasons. It’s great...
- 4/20/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Featuring stars including Riz Ahmed and Nabhaan Rizwan, the event aims to celebrate the ‘rich tapestry of Muslim experiences via the medium of film’
A major new UK film festival dedicated to Muslim cinema announced its inaugural lineup on Tuesday, with a slew of award-winning films featuring the likes of Riz Ahmed and Informer’s Nabhaan Rizwan.
Ahmed, winner of an Oscar for best live action short film, will appear in Dammi, a short film directed by Yann Demange, the French film-maker best known for Top Boy and Northern Ireland-set drama ’71. Ahmed co-stars with Isabelle Adjani in a story about a man confronting his French and Algerian heritage on a trip to Paris. Rizwan plays the lead in In Camera, a British feature directed by Naqqash Khalid that screened at the London film festival, as an actor struggling to make a career in the film industry in the face of repeated rejections.
A major new UK film festival dedicated to Muslim cinema announced its inaugural lineup on Tuesday, with a slew of award-winning films featuring the likes of Riz Ahmed and Informer’s Nabhaan Rizwan.
Ahmed, winner of an Oscar for best live action short film, will appear in Dammi, a short film directed by Yann Demange, the French film-maker best known for Top Boy and Northern Ireland-set drama ’71. Ahmed co-stars with Isabelle Adjani in a story about a man confronting his French and Algerian heritage on a trip to Paris. Rizwan plays the lead in In Camera, a British feature directed by Naqqash Khalid that screened at the London film festival, as an actor struggling to make a career in the film industry in the face of repeated rejections.
- 4/16/2024
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Pierce Brosnan will star with Amir El-Masry in the sports drama “Giant,” based on the true-life story of British-Yemeni boxer Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed and his rags to riches ascent to a world championship under the tutelage of his Irish-born boxing trainer Brendan Ingle.
El-Masry will play Naz and Brosnan is set to portray Ingle. The film will be written and directed by Rowan Athale, and produced by Mark Lane of Tea Shop Productions and Kevin Sampson of White Star Productions. AGC chairman and CEO Stuart Ford will also produce.
AGC Studios and BondIt Media Capital are financing the film.
On board to executive produce are Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood of Balboa Productions, AGC Studios’ Miguel Palos, Zach Garrett and Anant Tamirisa, BondIt’s Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor and Tyler Gould, Michael Ewing and True Brit’s Zygi Kamasa.
Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment has taken U.K. distribution...
El-Masry will play Naz and Brosnan is set to portray Ingle. The film will be written and directed by Rowan Athale, and produced by Mark Lane of Tea Shop Productions and Kevin Sampson of White Star Productions. AGC chairman and CEO Stuart Ford will also produce.
AGC Studios and BondIt Media Capital are financing the film.
On board to executive produce are Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood of Balboa Productions, AGC Studios’ Miguel Palos, Zach Garrett and Anant Tamirisa, BondIt’s Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor and Tyler Gould, Michael Ewing and True Brit’s Zygi Kamasa.
Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment has taken U.K. distribution...
- 4/15/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Scotland’s Sands International Film Festival Of St Andrews will open on April 19 with a double-bill screening of British writer-director Naqqash Khalid’s debut feature In Camera and Harry Holland’s short film Last Call, starring Tom Holland.
The titles make up the lineup of the festival’s third edition, which runs April 19-21. The festival will close with Maggie Contreras’ debut feature documentary Maestra, in which five female conductors from across the globe prepare for and compete in La Maestra – the world’s only competition for female conductors.
Elsewhere, Scottish actress and filmmaker Karen Gillan will take part in a talk on April 21 about her career, moderated by actor, playwright, and director Adura Onashile. Gillan is best known for working with the Russo brothers on Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers Endgame. Her other film credits include Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, in which she starred alongside Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black,...
The titles make up the lineup of the festival’s third edition, which runs April 19-21. The festival will close with Maggie Contreras’ debut feature documentary Maestra, in which five female conductors from across the globe prepare for and compete in La Maestra – the world’s only competition for female conductors.
Elsewhere, Scottish actress and filmmaker Karen Gillan will take part in a talk on April 21 about her career, moderated by actor, playwright, and director Adura Onashile. Gillan is best known for working with the Russo brothers on Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers Endgame. Her other film credits include Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, in which she starred alongside Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
In Camera Photo: Courtesy of Kviff
Further details of St Andrews-based Sands Film Festival have been announced for this year's event, which runs from April 19 to 21.
It will open with a double-bill on Friday, feature Naqqash Khalid’s debut feature In Camera, alongside Harry Holland’s short film Last Call, which co-stars Tom Holland. The filmmakers will be present to introduce the screenings.
The festival will close with Maggie Contreras’ debut feature documentary Maestra about a female conducting competition.
Scottish actress and filmmaker Karen Gillan will take part in a talk on April 21 about her career both in front of and behind the camera, moderated by Girl writer/director Adura Onashile.
Sands will also run a number of talks on the subject of film: The Art of Curation will take a closer look at the work of the film curator, and how to develop the skills necessary to become one.
Further details of St Andrews-based Sands Film Festival have been announced for this year's event, which runs from April 19 to 21.
It will open with a double-bill on Friday, feature Naqqash Khalid’s debut feature In Camera, alongside Harry Holland’s short film Last Call, which co-stars Tom Holland. The filmmakers will be present to introduce the screenings.
The festival will close with Maggie Contreras’ debut feature documentary Maestra about a female conducting competition.
Scottish actress and filmmaker Karen Gillan will take part in a talk on April 21 about her career both in front of and behind the camera, moderated by Girl writer/director Adura Onashile.
Sands will also run a number of talks on the subject of film: The Art of Curation will take a closer look at the work of the film curator, and how to develop the skills necessary to become one.
- 4/3/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Together Films has snapped up key deals for Naqqash Khalid’s In Camera, including for its home territory.
Conic will release the film in the UK and Ireland in cinemas this summer; while further distribution has been secured for Spain (FilmIn) and Scandinavia (Non-Stop Entertainment).
Together is conducting further sales in Berlin this week.
A debut from UK filmmaker Khalid, In Camera launched at Karlovy Vary in July, going on to play London and Thessaloniki.
It follows a young actor in a cycle of nightmarish auditions, who takes it upon himself to find a new role. The film unites six...
Conic will release the film in the UK and Ireland in cinemas this summer; while further distribution has been secured for Spain (FilmIn) and Scandinavia (Non-Stop Entertainment).
Together is conducting further sales in Berlin this week.
A debut from UK filmmaker Khalid, In Camera launched at Karlovy Vary in July, going on to play London and Thessaloniki.
It follows a young actor in a cycle of nightmarish auditions, who takes it upon himself to find a new role. The film unites six...
- 2/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
A Prayer For The Dying from UK-France outfit The Bureau and Good Boy, produced by Jeremy Thomas’s Recorded Picture Company, are among the seven international co-productions to receive backing from the UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf).
In addition, 23 UK screen content businesses have been awarded funds to boost their international activities.
Ukgsf is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms) and administered by the British Film Institute (BFI). The latest batch of awards sees over £1.3m being allocated through the international co-production strand and over £2m being allocated through the international business development strand.
In addition, 23 UK screen content businesses have been awarded funds to boost their international activities.
Ukgsf is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms) and administered by the British Film Institute (BFI). The latest batch of awards sees over £1.3m being allocated through the international co-production strand and over £2m being allocated through the international business development strand.
- 1/17/2024
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The British Film Institute has revealed the list of TV, film, and animation companies that have won funding from its latest £3.3M ($4.2M) Global Screen Fund payout.
Thirty cash awards have been allocated this round, including seven new international co-productions and what the BFI has described as 23 UK screen content businesses. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms), the latest batch of awards sees over £1.3 million allocated through the fund’s International Co-production strand and over £2 million allocated through the fund’s International Business Development strand.
The funding, awarded in the form of non-recoupable grants ranging between £50,000 and £150,000, is paid out over three years. This year, the International Co-production strand has, for the first time, supported collaborations with Hungary, Norway, and Spain. The funding will also support partnerships with Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland and Sweden. Check out the full list of awardees below.
Thirty cash awards have been allocated this round, including seven new international co-productions and what the BFI has described as 23 UK screen content businesses. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms), the latest batch of awards sees over £1.3 million allocated through the fund’s International Co-production strand and over £2 million allocated through the fund’s International Business Development strand.
The funding, awarded in the form of non-recoupable grants ranging between £50,000 and £150,000, is paid out over three years. This year, the International Co-production strand has, for the first time, supported collaborations with Hungary, Norway, and Spain. The funding will also support partnerships with Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland and Sweden. Check out the full list of awardees below.
- 1/17/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Nabhaan Rizwan as Aden in In Camera. Naqqash Khalid: 'Starting this film, I knew that this was going to be a young Asian man but I was going to commit an act of violence in that I was going to deprive them of any backstory and make him completely blank and view him through this kind of like colourblind lens almost and that being quite a violent thing to do as a writer. ' Photo: Courtesy of Thessaloniki Film Festival Naqqash Khalid's debut In Camera centres on actor Aden (Nabhaan Rizwan), who is a bit of a blank slate at work and in his home life in the flat he shares with exhausted doctor Bo (Rory Fleck Byrne) and the stylish and confident Conrad (Amir El-Masry). Khalid's film is a bold first film with an experimental and modernist edge. I caught up with him at Thessaloniki Film Festival,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Festival ran November 2-12.
Sofia Exarchou’s Animal has won the €10,000 Golden Alexander-Theo Angelopoulos prize for best film at the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the first time in 30 years a Greek production has won the top prize.
The film’s lead actress Dimitra Vlagopoulou also won the best actress award ex aequo with Joanna Arnow for US production The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed, which she also directed.
Vlagopoulou had previously won best actress at Locarno where the film had its world premiere.
The Greek, Austrian, Romanian, Cypriot, Bulgarian co-production follows a group of women...
Sofia Exarchou’s Animal has won the €10,000 Golden Alexander-Theo Angelopoulos prize for best film at the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the first time in 30 years a Greek production has won the top prize.
The film’s lead actress Dimitra Vlagopoulou also won the best actress award ex aequo with Joanna Arnow for US production The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed, which she also directed.
Vlagopoulou had previously won best actress at Locarno where the film had its world premiere.
The Greek, Austrian, Romanian, Cypriot, Bulgarian co-production follows a group of women...
- 11/15/2023
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
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To The Med
Turkish delights: We spotlighted Turkey this week, and about time too as the country celebrates its 100th anniversary of independence. Turkish execs were out in force at Mipcom Cannes last month and we felt it was about time to examine a nation that has been churning out buzzy dramas and telenovelas for decades. Outfits such as distributor Global Agency and producer Tims & B have been at the forefront of the rise of Turkish TV in the international arena, which has continued throughout the reign of divisive leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America have long been acquirers of its telenovelas, and word...
To The Med
Turkish delights: We spotlighted Turkey this week, and about time too as the country celebrates its 100th anniversary of independence. Turkish execs were out in force at Mipcom Cannes last month and we felt it was about time to examine a nation that has been churning out buzzy dramas and telenovelas for decades. Outfits such as distributor Global Agency and producer Tims & B have been at the forefront of the rise of Turkish TV in the international arena, which has continued throughout the reign of divisive leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America have long been acquirers of its telenovelas, and word...
- 11/3/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival returns this evening for its 64th edition with a screening of The Pot-au-Feu (The Taste of Things), the latest film by French-Vietnamese director Trần Anh Hùng.
The pic, which took the best director gong at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will screen for audiences at Thessaloniki’s Olympia Theatre following an opening ceremony.
Running November 2-12, Thessaloniki screens 11 debut and sophomore features, including three Greek films, in its main international feature competition. Selected titles include Animal by Sophia Exarchou, Christos Nikou’s Fingernails, and In Camera by Naqqash Khalid. A total of 270 feature and short films will be screened at Thessaloniki. The international competition sits alongside two sidebar strands, Meet the Neighbors and Fiction Forward, for regional and experimental works, with both also carrying 11 competition titles. The festival will close with Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki.
In the way of talent, Monica Bellucci...
The pic, which took the best director gong at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will screen for audiences at Thessaloniki’s Olympia Theatre following an opening ceremony.
Running November 2-12, Thessaloniki screens 11 debut and sophomore features, including three Greek films, in its main international feature competition. Selected titles include Animal by Sophia Exarchou, Christos Nikou’s Fingernails, and In Camera by Naqqash Khalid. A total of 270 feature and short films will be screened at Thessaloniki. The international competition sits alongside two sidebar strands, Meet the Neighbors and Fiction Forward, for regional and experimental works, with both also carrying 11 competition titles. The festival will close with Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki.
In the way of talent, Monica Bellucci...
- 11/2/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
“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
Industry talks include masterclass with David F Sandberg and Stockholm Bloodbath case study.
The Stockholm International Film Festival will honour filmmakers including Ken Loach (lifetime achievement award), Ethan Hawke (achievement award) and Catherine Breillat (visionary award) at its 2023 festival, which runs Nov 8-19.
The festival will open with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, winner of Venice’s Golden Lion.
In all, the festival will screen 130 films from 50 countries. The country focus this year is the UK – with selections including How To Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker, In Camera by Naqqash Khalid, and All Of Us Strangers by Andrew Haigh.
Other...
The Stockholm International Film Festival will honour filmmakers including Ken Loach (lifetime achievement award), Ethan Hawke (achievement award) and Catherine Breillat (visionary award) at its 2023 festival, which runs Nov 8-19.
The festival will open with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, winner of Venice’s Golden Lion.
In all, the festival will screen 130 films from 50 countries. The country focus this year is the UK – with selections including How To Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker, In Camera by Naqqash Khalid, and All Of Us Strangers by Andrew Haigh.
Other...
- 10/17/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Scorsese gave a Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival, hosted by Edgar Wright.
Martin Scorsese has said he “didn’t want to be the last line of defence” for auteur-led filmmaking against franchise films, while renewing his criticism of the obsession with “content” over cinema.
Speaking at a Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) hosted by director Edgar Wright, Scorsese said, “Content is something you eat and throw away. Content is candy. It’s madness.”
The director was asked by Wright about his comments in recent years on the state of the film industry, and...
Martin Scorsese has said he “didn’t want to be the last line of defence” for auteur-led filmmaking against franchise films, while renewing his criticism of the obsession with “content” over cinema.
Speaking at a Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) hosted by director Edgar Wright, Scorsese said, “Content is something you eat and throw away. Content is candy. It’s madness.”
The director was asked by Wright about his comments in recent years on the state of the film industry, and...
- 10/7/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The associate producer programme will support up to eight emerging producers, and the BBC’s Small Indie Fund is now open to film companies.
BBC Film has outlined further support for UK producers with two opportunities to help grow producer talent and address under-representation in the industry.
The associate producer programme will see BBC Film fund the placement of emerging producers on up to eight BBC Film productions per year, with particular emphasis on supporting those from under-represented groups. The programme, led by BBC Film head of production Emma Kayee, is open access and production companies must advertise the posts.
BBC Film has outlined further support for UK producers with two opportunities to help grow producer talent and address under-representation in the industry.
The associate producer programme will see BBC Film fund the placement of emerging producers on up to eight BBC Film productions per year, with particular emphasis on supporting those from under-represented groups. The programme, led by BBC Film head of production Emma Kayee, is open access and production companies must advertise the posts.
- 10/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
“It’s absolutely clear, there is a real appetite for British independent cinema in France,” said artistic director Dominque Green.
Sasha Polak’s Silver Haze scooped the top prize at this month’s Dinard Film Festival, the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema for French audiences, that ran from September 27 to October 1.
Berlinale Panorama title Silver Haze won the Golden Hitchcock for best film. Polak’s feature reunites the Dutch filmmaker with UK actor Vicky Knight, after working together on Dirty God in 2019. It is loosely based on Knight’s own experience as a child, in which she survived an arson attack.
Sasha Polak’s Silver Haze scooped the top prize at this month’s Dinard Film Festival, the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema for French audiences, that ran from September 27 to October 1.
Berlinale Panorama title Silver Haze won the Golden Hitchcock for best film. Polak’s feature reunites the Dutch filmmaker with UK actor Vicky Knight, after working together on Dirty God in 2019. It is loosely based on Knight’s own experience as a child, in which she survived an arson attack.
- 10/2/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Actor Nabhaan Rizwan In Camera by Naqqash Khalid which received new talent award. Photo: Dinard Film Festival
The big winner at the awards ceremony of the 34th Dinard Festival of British Cinema last night (Saturday 30 September) was the black comedy The Trouble With Jessica, which had opened the Festival four days earlier.
The Trouble With Jessica director Matt Winn and actress Shirley Henderson receive Dinard’s glittering prizes. Photo: Richard Mowe
Directed by Matt Winn, the film deals with interpersonal relationships in the balance, all precipitated by the untimely demise of one of the group during a fraught London dinner party. The French audiences appreciated what they considered to be typically British humour.
The film was accorded the Special Jury Prize and also received the Audience Award in a ceremony at the resort’s Palais des Arts. Winn described the accolade “as an immense honour.” He added that the subject...
The big winner at the awards ceremony of the 34th Dinard Festival of British Cinema last night (Saturday 30 September) was the black comedy The Trouble With Jessica, which had opened the Festival four days earlier.
The Trouble With Jessica director Matt Winn and actress Shirley Henderson receive Dinard’s glittering prizes. Photo: Richard Mowe
Directed by Matt Winn, the film deals with interpersonal relationships in the balance, all precipitated by the untimely demise of one of the group during a fraught London dinner party. The French audiences appreciated what they considered to be typically British humour.
The film was accorded the Special Jury Prize and also received the Audience Award in a ceremony at the resort’s Palais des Arts. Winn described the accolade “as an immense honour.” He added that the subject...
- 9/30/2023
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Recipients including Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Rory Fleck Byrne and ’Chuck Chucky Baby’ producers Anne Beresford and Andrew Gillman.
The British Film Institute (BFI) and Film4 have unveiled the nine short films that will receive funding through their Future Takes programme,.
It will see each filmmaking team receive between £55,000 and £90,000 of National Lottery funding, with recipients including Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Rory Fleck Byrne and Chuck Chucky Baby producers Anne Beresford and Andrew Gillman.
Actor-director Fleck Byrne, who stared in BBC drama series This Is Going To Hurt, has been selected for In Heat, produced Radha Bhandari, whose short For...
The British Film Institute (BFI) and Film4 have unveiled the nine short films that will receive funding through their Future Takes programme,.
It will see each filmmaking team receive between £55,000 and £90,000 of National Lottery funding, with recipients including Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Rory Fleck Byrne and Chuck Chucky Baby producers Anne Beresford and Andrew Gillman.
Actor-director Fleck Byrne, who stared in BBC drama series This Is Going To Hurt, has been selected for In Heat, produced Radha Bhandari, whose short For...
- 9/28/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The 2023 BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its industry program, featuring a wide array of conversations and panel discussions with leading figures from across the international film and TV worlds.
Among those taking part in Lff Spotlight conversations are Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative office Jennifer Lee, who co-directed the Frozen films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Helen Gregory of See-Saw Films, behind films such as The Power of the Dog and TV shows including Heartstopper and Slow Horses, and Carole Barton, head of French sales company Charades.
Elsewhere, both AMPAS boss Bill Kramer and BAFTA head Jane Millichip will speak in conversation with BFI CEO Ben Roberts.
Among the panel discussions, participants will include writers, directors and creative talent such as Giancarlo Nasi, Emily Morgan, Mahalia Belo, Shaheen Baig, Leah Clarke, Naqqash Khalid, Nabhaan Rizwan, Mary Burke and Tasha Back.
The Hollywood Reporter is sponsoring a panel entitled “Fade In.
Among those taking part in Lff Spotlight conversations are Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative office Jennifer Lee, who co-directed the Frozen films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Helen Gregory of See-Saw Films, behind films such as The Power of the Dog and TV shows including Heartstopper and Slow Horses, and Carole Barton, head of French sales company Charades.
Elsewhere, both AMPAS boss Bill Kramer and BAFTA head Jane Millichip will speak in conversation with BFI CEO Ben Roberts.
Among the panel discussions, participants will include writers, directors and creative talent such as Giancarlo Nasi, Emily Morgan, Mahalia Belo, Shaheen Baig, Leah Clarke, Naqqash Khalid, Nabhaan Rizwan, Mary Burke and Tasha Back.
The Hollywood Reporter is sponsoring a panel entitled “Fade In.
- 9/20/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
’Silent Roar’, ‘Shoshana’ and ’How To Have Sex’ will also play at the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema.
France’s Dinard Festival of British Film has unveiled the line-up of its 34th edition, which includes Cannes titles Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest and Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex.
Also on the line-up is Charlotte Regan’s Sundance title Scrapper. The comedy drama stars Harris Dickinson and follows a young girl forced to confront reality when her estranged father returns, and is currently on release in...
France’s Dinard Festival of British Film has unveiled the line-up of its 34th edition, which includes Cannes titles Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest and Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex.
Also on the line-up is Charlotte Regan’s Sundance title Scrapper. The comedy drama stars Harris Dickinson and follows a young girl forced to confront reality when her estranged father returns, and is currently on release in...
- 8/31/2023
- 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
The UK-based sales and distribution film recently received UK Global Screen Fund support.
UK sales, distribution and marketing firm Together Films has hired Jess Reilly as international sales and acquisitions manager for unscripted.
Reilly comes into the role from Espresso Media International, where she was head of sales and acquisitions. She replaces head of acquisitions, sales and distribution Vicki Brown, who joined the BFI Filmmaking Fund in June having headed up Together Films’ sales arm since its launch last year.
Together Films is currently representing Paul Sng’s Sheffied DocFest opener Tish, and Naqqash Khalid’s Karlovy Vary title In Camera.
UK sales, distribution and marketing firm Together Films has hired Jess Reilly as international sales and acquisitions manager for unscripted.
Reilly comes into the role from Espresso Media International, where she was head of sales and acquisitions. She replaces head of acquisitions, sales and distribution Vicki Brown, who joined the BFI Filmmaking Fund in June having headed up Together Films’ sales arm since its launch last year.
Together Films is currently representing Paul Sng’s Sheffied DocFest opener Tish, and Naqqash Khalid’s Karlovy Vary title In Camera.
- 8/7/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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
Russell Crowe is standing on a stage, playing an electric guitar. He’s singing “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash, accompanied by a trumpetist, a drummer, someone at a keyboard, another guitarist, and even four backing singers. He starts rocking out to the instrumental section. The crowd, full of Czech film industry insiders, international critics, and fans, is undoubtedly entertained.
This is not yet another remake of “A Star Is Born,” but simply the kind of event you can expect to witness at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, taking place every summer in the Czech city and welcoming talent from all over the world.
First established in 1946, Kviff went through a transformation in the early 1990s following the fall of communism. Karel Och, working at the festival since 2001 and its artistic director since 2011, thinks this shift explains how spectators themselves have changed.
“They didn’t really react at Q&a’s,...
This is not yet another remake of “A Star Is Born,” but simply the kind of event you can expect to witness at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, taking place every summer in the Czech city and welcoming talent from all over the world.
First established in 1946, Kviff went through a transformation in the early 1990s following the fall of communism. Karel Och, working at the festival since 2001 and its artistic director since 2011, thinks this shift explains how spectators themselves have changed.
“They didn’t really react at Q&a’s,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Manuela Lazic
- Indiewire
A common question asked in many stories told throughout all of cinema history has been: how far will you go to achieve your dreams? What will you do to get there, what will you give up, what will it take? This one is yet another worthwhile cinematic creation that grapples with these kind of existential questions. One of the better discoveries at the 2023 Karlovy Vary Film Festival is a film titled In Camera, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Naqqash Khalid. Written and directed by Khalid, the film is a world premiere in the festival's Proxima Competition section. It's a story about a budding actor living in London trying to get work and break into the world of acting in the British film and TV industry, but he continues to encounter problem after problem after problem. Mainly problems with racism or carelessness or typecasting and beyond. It's frustrating – and...
- 7/9/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
For writer-director Naqqash Khalid, questions are more important than answers and this premise is something the academic-turned-filmmaker explores heavily in his debut film In Camera, which recently premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The bold film, which opened to positive reviews after it screened in the fest’s Proxima section last week, is the first feature to come out of the 2019 iFeatures slate, the low-budget Creative UK scheme from the UK’s BFI Film Fund and BBC Film.
In Camera is a satirical drama that follows Aden (played by Nabhaan Rizwan), an actor who is hoping to break into the UK film industry but faces a series of challenges that make him question his desire to be accepted by a system that wasn’t built to include him. After a cycle of nightmarish auditions and multiple rejections, he finally lands a job role-playing as the dead son of...
In Camera is a satirical drama that follows Aden (played by Nabhaan Rizwan), an actor who is hoping to break into the UK film industry but faces a series of challenges that make him question his desire to be accepted by a system that wasn’t built to include him. After a cycle of nightmarish auditions and multiple rejections, he finally lands a job role-playing as the dead son of...
- 7/7/2023
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex and Ken Loach’s final film The Old Oak are among the 13 titles that received cash awards through the BFI’s Global Screen Fund.
The BFI announced the full list of recipients who received support from the £7m per year fund this afternoon. The list also includes the Cannes Competiton title Club Zero, starring Mia Wasikowska, and In Camera, written and directed by Naqqash Khalid, which screened at Karlovy Vary. Scroll down for the full list.
Financed through the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (Dcms), the BFI said today that a further £743,225 was allocated through the fund’s International Distribution strand. To date this strand has made 47 awards totaling over £1.7 million, the BFI said.
UK Global Screen Fund applications are currently open to international distribution festival launch support and international sales support, both assessed on a rolling basis. The fund will...
The BFI announced the full list of recipients who received support from the £7m per year fund this afternoon. The list also includes the Cannes Competiton title Club Zero, starring Mia Wasikowska, and In Camera, written and directed by Naqqash Khalid, which screened at Karlovy Vary. Scroll down for the full list.
Financed through the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (Dcms), the BFI said today that a further £743,225 was allocated through the fund’s International Distribution strand. To date this strand has made 47 awards totaling over £1.7 million, the BFI said.
UK Global Screen Fund applications are currently open to international distribution festival launch support and international sales support, both assessed on a rolling basis. The fund will...
- 7/7/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
13 titles have received funding in the latest round from the £7m per year UK Global Screen Fund.
A raft of UK Cannes titles are among the 13 features to receive awards given out by the British Film Institute (BFI) in the latest round of funding from the £7m per year UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf), supporting international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector.
These include Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero, on which Good Chaos’ Mike Goodridge is the UK producer and will receive the award; Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex, with the funding going to Emily Leo...
A raft of UK Cannes titles are among the 13 features to receive awards given out by the British Film Institute (BFI) in the latest round of funding from the £7m per year UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf), supporting international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector.
These include Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero, on which Good Chaos’ Mike Goodridge is the UK producer and will receive the award; Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex, with the funding going to Emily Leo...
- 7/7/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Naqqash Khalid always wanted to make films.
An English literature graduate of Salford University in Manchester, England, who began his working life as a lecturer in the university’s School of Arts and Media, Khalid dreamed of working with actors to create films that reflect our 21st century experience of a fractured world, dominated by mobile phones and social media, where time no longer seems to follow a linear path.
His chance to make his dreams reality came when a script he wrote while still teaching at Salford was picked up by iFeatures – a BBC Film/Creative England/British Film Institute program for debut directors. A development grant in early 2020 enabled him to realize his script “In Camera,” which had its world premiere Saturday in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Proxima competition slot (for the Variety review see here).
Khalid, now 30, says the film enabled him to explore the nature...
An English literature graduate of Salford University in Manchester, England, who began his working life as a lecturer in the university’s School of Arts and Media, Khalid dreamed of working with actors to create films that reflect our 21st century experience of a fractured world, dominated by mobile phones and social media, where time no longer seems to follow a linear path.
His chance to make his dreams reality came when a script he wrote while still teaching at Salford was picked up by iFeatures – a BBC Film/Creative England/British Film Institute program for debut directors. A development grant in early 2020 enabled him to realize his script “In Camera,” which had its world premiere Saturday in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Proxima competition slot (for the Variety review see here).
Khalid, now 30, says the film enabled him to explore the nature...
- 7/3/2023
- by Nick Holdsworth
- Variety Film + TV
The thing Aden likes about acting, he tells someone who cares enough to ask, is “how organized it is.” You know where you stand, quite literally, because someone tells you; you’re given things to say, and told how to say them. Order and certainty aren’t typically seen as benefits of the thespian calling, and even Aden doesn’t sound entirely convinced of his own words. But then Aden — played, in a performance of brilliant, diamantine versatility, by Nabhaan Rizwan — is never entirely convinced of himself, period, when he hasn’t a script to follow or a character to inhabit. A simultaneously playful and savagely pointed satire from first-time feature director Naqqash Khalid, “In Camera” traces how its young British-Asian protagonist’s sense of identity is progressively diminished by the cynicism and tokenism of the industry he’s trying to crack — though as it turns out, when you lose yourself entirely,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Opening ceremony featured Johnny Depp trailer, which poked fun at the actor’s 2021 attendance.
Russell Crowe brought rock and roll to the opening night of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), playing a 90-minute set having earlier accepted the Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema.
Crowe and his band Indoor Garden Party combined their own music – including new single ‘Let Your Light Shine’, the title track from their upcoming album, and ‘Southampton’, about the English city – with covers including Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘A Hazy Shade Of Winter’, a Crowe-solo...
Russell Crowe brought rock and roll to the opening night of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), playing a 90-minute set having earlier accepted the Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema.
Crowe and his band Indoor Garden Party combined their own music – including new single ‘Let Your Light Shine’, the title track from their upcoming album, and ‘Southampton’, about the English city – with covers including Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘A Hazy Shade Of Winter’, a Crowe-solo...
- 7/1/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A UK-Ireland deal with distributor Modern Films has already been signed.
London and New York-based sales firm Together Films has acquired world rights to Paul Sng’s Tish, which opens Sheffield DocFest tonight (June 14).
A UK-Ireland deal with distributor Modern Films has already been signed.
The film tells the story of artist Tish Murtha, a photographer who captured images of working-class communities, and follows Tish’s daughter Ella, in her drive to preserve her mother’s legacy.
Sng’s previous films include Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (also released in the UK and Ireland by Modern) and Dispossession.
Tish...
London and New York-based sales firm Together Films has acquired world rights to Paul Sng’s Tish, which opens Sheffield DocFest tonight (June 14).
A UK-Ireland deal with distributor Modern Films has already been signed.
The film tells the story of artist Tish Murtha, a photographer who captured images of working-class communities, and follows Tish’s daughter Ella, in her drive to preserve her mother’s legacy.
Sng’s previous films include Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (also released in the UK and Ireland by Modern) and Dispossession.
Tish...
- 6/14/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The 57th edition includes new films by directors Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev, Tinatin Kajrishvili and Babak Jalali.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for its 57th edition, including new features by Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev and Tinatin Kajrishvili.
The festival, which runs from June 30-July 8 in the Czech spa town, has nine world premieres and two international premieres in its main Crystal Globe Competition.
Canadian director Plante, whose Nadia Butterfly was in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020 and Fake Tattoos played in the Berlinale’s Generation strand in 2018, world premieres arthouse thriller Red Rooms about a woman...
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for its 57th edition, including new features by Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev and Tinatin Kajrishvili.
The festival, which runs from June 30-July 8 in the Czech spa town, has nine world premieres and two international premieres in its main Crystal Globe Competition.
Canadian director Plante, whose Nadia Butterfly was in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020 and Fake Tattoos played in the Berlinale’s Generation strand in 2018, world premieres arthouse thriller Red Rooms about a woman...
- 5/30/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The buyers’ event is organised by the BFI and British Council.
Janis Pugh’s Chuck Chuck Baby, Amrou Al-Kadhi’s Layla and Daniel Kokotajlo’s sophomore feature, Starve Acre, are among the eight features selected for Great8, the annual Cannes buyers’ showcase of UK films from emerging directors organised by the British Film Institute (BFI) and British Council.
The showcase, now in its sixth year, presents UK feature films from first and second-time filmmakers to international distributors and festival programmers. It is funded and run by the BFI and British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4.
In preparation for the Marché,...
Janis Pugh’s Chuck Chuck Baby, Amrou Al-Kadhi’s Layla and Daniel Kokotajlo’s sophomore feature, Starve Acre, are among the eight features selected for Great8, the annual Cannes buyers’ showcase of UK films from emerging directors organised by the British Film Institute (BFI) and British Council.
The showcase, now in its sixth year, presents UK feature films from first and second-time filmmakers to international distributors and festival programmers. It is funded and run by the BFI and British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4.
In preparation for the Marché,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The BFI and British Council have unveiled the eight new British films that will be presented to international distributors and festival programmers at the Cannes film market as part of the annual Great8 showcase.
Unseen footage from the films, from first and second time U.K. filmmakers, will be introduced by their filmmakers and screened on May 11. Now in its sixth year, the initiative is in partnership with BBC Film and Film4. Films previously highlighted by Great8 include Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Rungano Nyoni’s “I Am Not A Witch,” Georgia Oakley’s “Blue Jean” and Rose Glass’ “Saint Maud.”
Agnieszka Moody, BFI head of international and industry policy, said: “The lineup of films and filmmakers featuring in this year’s Great8 continues to shine a light on the exciting diversity of filmmaker voices and stories continuing to come out of the U.K. We are proud alongside our partners at the British Council,...
Unseen footage from the films, from first and second time U.K. filmmakers, will be introduced by their filmmakers and screened on May 11. Now in its sixth year, the initiative is in partnership with BBC Film and Film4. Films previously highlighted by Great8 include Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Rungano Nyoni’s “I Am Not A Witch,” Georgia Oakley’s “Blue Jean” and Rose Glass’ “Saint Maud.”
Agnieszka Moody, BFI head of international and industry policy, said: “The lineup of films and filmmakers featuring in this year’s Great8 continues to shine a light on the exciting diversity of filmmaker voices and stories continuing to come out of the U.K. We are proud alongside our partners at the British Council,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Screen Stars Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry star alongside Rory Fleck Byrne.
Together Films has acquired world sales rights to In Camera, the debut feature of 2020 Screen Star of Tomorrow filmmaker Naqqash Khalid.
The UK-based sales firm has released a first look at the film (see above). Together will present the film to buyers at this month’s Cannes market, ahead of a summer festival debut.
In Camera stars fellow Screen Stars Nabhaan Rizwan (2019) and Amir El-Masry (2021) alongside Rory Fleck Byrne. It follows Aden, who, after receiving multiple rejections for a series of nightmarish commercial auditions, takes it upon himself to...
Together Films has acquired world sales rights to In Camera, the debut feature of 2020 Screen Star of Tomorrow filmmaker Naqqash Khalid.
The UK-based sales firm has released a first look at the film (see above). Together will present the film to buyers at this month’s Cannes market, ahead of a summer festival debut.
In Camera stars fellow Screen Stars Nabhaan Rizwan (2019) and Amir El-Masry (2021) alongside Rory Fleck Byrne. It follows Aden, who, after receiving multiple rejections for a series of nightmarish commercial auditions, takes it upon himself to...
- 5/5/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In Camera
Naqqash Khalid went into production with his alluring-sounding directorial debut this past August. Set in Manchester, in a nutshell, In Camera details what happens when the casting couch offers little and destiny is driven by what one makes available to them. Featuring Nabhaan Rizwan, Limbo (2020) player Amir El-Masry and Rory Fleck Byrne, the 2020 Stars of Tomorrow Khalid described the project as “a fairytale about ambition, performance and identity”. The debut is produced by Prettybird’s Juliette Larthe and Public Dreams’ Mary Burke.
Gist: This follows Aden (Rizwan) – a young man who spends most of his time recording self-tapes for parts he never gets.…...
Naqqash Khalid went into production with his alluring-sounding directorial debut this past August. Set in Manchester, in a nutshell, In Camera details what happens when the casting couch offers little and destiny is driven by what one makes available to them. Featuring Nabhaan Rizwan, Limbo (2020) player Amir El-Masry and Rory Fleck Byrne, the 2020 Stars of Tomorrow Khalid described the project as “a fairytale about ambition, performance and identity”. The debut is produced by Prettybird’s Juliette Larthe and Public Dreams’ Mary Burke.
Gist: This follows Aden (Rizwan) – a young man who spends most of his time recording self-tapes for parts he never gets.…...
- 1/6/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Here’s our annual rundown of the 10 largest production awards given out by the British Film Institute’s Film Fund in 2022. Backed by National Lottery money, the grants are a key supporter of indie cinema in the UK.
Top of the list is Timestalker, the debut feature film from actor and writer Alice Lowe. Billed as a “reincarnation romcom,” the film follows the tale of one woman’s unrequited love spanning several centuries. Lowe directs from a screenplay she wrote. She also stars in the film alongside Jacob Anderson (Game Of Thrones), Aneurin Barnard (David Copperfield), Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education), and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz). Vaughan Sivell and Western Edge Pictures are producers. The film is currently eyeing a 2023 release.
Second on the list is Starve Acre, a supernatural horror film from BAFTA-nominated Apostasy creator Daniel Kokotajlo. The Crown star Matt Smith and Saint Maud’s Morfydd Clark lead pic,...
Top of the list is Timestalker, the debut feature film from actor and writer Alice Lowe. Billed as a “reincarnation romcom,” the film follows the tale of one woman’s unrequited love spanning several centuries. Lowe directs from a screenplay she wrote. She also stars in the film alongside Jacob Anderson (Game Of Thrones), Aneurin Barnard (David Copperfield), Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education), and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz). Vaughan Sivell and Western Edge Pictures are producers. The film is currently eyeing a 2023 release.
Second on the list is Starve Acre, a supernatural horror film from BAFTA-nominated Apostasy creator Daniel Kokotajlo. The Crown star Matt Smith and Saint Maud’s Morfydd Clark lead pic,...
- 12/26/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Titles include Sofia Brockenshire’s ‘The Dependents’.
Eight feature documentaries will have world premieres in the international feature competition of Dok Leipzig, which runs from October 17-23 in Germany.
World debuts in the 13-strong international competition include Sofia Brockenshire’s The Dependents, an Argentina-Canada co-production about the life of an official in the Canadian Immigration Service.
Scroll down for the full competition selection
Brockenshire previously co-directed One Sister, a fiction film that debuted in Biennale College – Cinema at Venice Film Festival in 2016.
The international competition section will also launch Joseph Mangat’s Divine Factory, a Filipino-us-Taiwanese co-production that looks at the economic,...
Eight feature documentaries will have world premieres in the international feature competition of Dok Leipzig, which runs from October 17-23 in Germany.
World debuts in the 13-strong international competition include Sofia Brockenshire’s The Dependents, an Argentina-Canada co-production about the life of an official in the Canadian Immigration Service.
Scroll down for the full competition selection
Brockenshire previously co-directed One Sister, a fiction film that debuted in Biennale College – Cinema at Venice Film Festival in 2016.
The international competition section will also launch Joseph Mangat’s Divine Factory, a Filipino-us-Taiwanese co-production that looks at the economic,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
‘In Camera’ is BBC Film and BFI-backed, and unites several Screen Stars of Tomorrow.
UK filmmaker Naqqash Khalid has wrapped a six-week shoot in Manchester on his debut feature In Camera, which stars Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry and Rory Fleck Byrne.
The film is produced by Juliette Larthe for the UK arm of UK-us production firm Prettybird, and by former BFI exec Mary Burke for her new UK company Public Dreams. Larthe developed the script alongside Khalid.
Developed with BBC Film, In Camera is financed by BBC Film and the BFI, and in association with Uncommon Creative Studio.
In...
UK filmmaker Naqqash Khalid has wrapped a six-week shoot in Manchester on his debut feature In Camera, which stars Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry and Rory Fleck Byrne.
The film is produced by Juliette Larthe for the UK arm of UK-us production firm Prettybird, and by former BFI exec Mary Burke for her new UK company Public Dreams. Larthe developed the script alongside Khalid.
Developed with BBC Film, In Camera is financed by BBC Film and the BFI, and in association with Uncommon Creative Studio.
In...
- 9/28/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Register to hear from the Stars live on Monday, October 5.
This week Screen International is celebrating its 2020 UK and Ireland Stars of Tomorrow. Watch the video above to see behind-the-scenes of this year’s photoshoot at London’s BFI Southbank in August.
Screen is hosting a live online event on Monday, October 5 at 5pm BST, where you can hear directly from the Stars.
To register for the event, click here
If you would like to ask a question to any of this year’s selection, please email it to ben.dalton@screendaily.com and we will select a few for the live event.
This week Screen International is celebrating its 2020 UK and Ireland Stars of Tomorrow. Watch the video above to see behind-the-scenes of this year’s photoshoot at London’s BFI Southbank in August.
Screen is hosting a live online event on Monday, October 5 at 5pm BST, where you can hear directly from the Stars.
To register for the event, click here
If you would like to ask a question to any of this year’s selection, please email it to ben.dalton@screendaily.com and we will select a few for the live event.
- 10/1/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The hottest up-and-coming actors, filmmakers, and heads of department in the UK and Ireland.
Scroll down for the full list
For the first year, Screen has partnered with a headline sponsor, Amazon Prime Video, alongside returning partners ScreenSkills and the BFI London Film Festival.
Screen International has a highly regarded track record of spotting talent early, and this year’s UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow will be following in the footsteps of some of today’s biggest names in film and television, many of whom are BAFTA and Oscar winners and nominees.
From Emily Blunt and Benedict Cumberbatch in the...
Scroll down for the full list
For the first year, Screen has partnered with a headline sponsor, Amazon Prime Video, alongside returning partners ScreenSkills and the BFI London Film Festival.
Screen International has a highly regarded track record of spotting talent early, and this year’s UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow will be following in the footsteps of some of today’s biggest names in film and television, many of whom are BAFTA and Oscar winners and nominees.
From Emily Blunt and Benedict Cumberbatch in the...
- 9/28/2020
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Turn off your phones and leave your anxiety at the door of today’s casting roundup! A hyperreal feature drama about the anxieties and challenges younger people face in the digital age is seeking two actors for lead roles. There are also spots in an upcoming Bollywood feature, a highly-stylized satire, and an open call at an agency! Untitled Feature Film The first feature film by Naqqash Khalid is currently seeking actors for lead roles. A hyperreal drama that documents anxieties in the digital age, the film follows the story of a recent graduate who moves back home and struggles to find his place. A male actor ages 20–24 and a female actor ages 20–26 are needed for two leads. The film will be loosely scripted, so talent should have strong improvisation skills. The seven-day shoot will be in September in Manchester, England. Pay is £75 per day, with travel expenses provided (no accommodations). Apply here!
- 8/11/2017
- backstage.com
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