The new home of the London Film School has secured its first tranche of funding from Creative Skillset.
The London Film School has secured a significant award from Creative Skillset towards its capital campaign for the relocation to the Barbican Centre.
Creative Skillset is looking to invest $3m (£1.82m) in Lfs and has awarded the school up to $768,000 (£468,596) towards the development of its plans to transfer the school and its operations to the new site. A stage two application for construction works will be made in 2014.
The funding is part of Creative Skillset’s four-year film skills strategy which supports the BFI’s strategic priorities.
In a deal with the City of London Corporation, in space currently occupied by Barbican Exhibition Hall 1, the new location in Golden Lane will provide state of the art filmmaking facilities, extended accommodation, public outreach and space for industry screenings and events.
MIke Leigh, Lfs chairman and 1964 graduate, said: “Creative...
The London Film School has secured a significant award from Creative Skillset towards its capital campaign for the relocation to the Barbican Centre.
Creative Skillset is looking to invest $3m (£1.82m) in Lfs and has awarded the school up to $768,000 (£468,596) towards the development of its plans to transfer the school and its operations to the new site. A stage two application for construction works will be made in 2014.
The funding is part of Creative Skillset’s four-year film skills strategy which supports the BFI’s strategic priorities.
In a deal with the City of London Corporation, in space currently occupied by Barbican Exhibition Hall 1, the new location in Golden Lane will provide state of the art filmmaking facilities, extended accommodation, public outreach and space for industry screenings and events.
MIke Leigh, Lfs chairman and 1964 graduate, said: “Creative...
- 12/9/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ahead of the British Academy Scotland Awards next month, BAFTA Scotland has once more joined forces with Cineworld to launch this year’s Audience Award category.
The award category is designed to promote emerging home-grown talent, bringing a set of eight films this year back to the big screen later this month, and the nominations have now been announced.
Blackbird The Devil’s Plantation Fire In The Night The Happy Lands I Am Breathing Sawney: Flesh Of Man We Are Northern Lights The Wee Man
Cineworld cinemas in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee will be screening the films again from Sunday 20th October to Tuesday 29th October, and from that Sunday 20th, audiences can vote for their favourite of the octet by going to www.cineworld.co.uk/baftascotland.
Carter Ferguson’s Fast Romance won the award two years back, with David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense, Mackenzie’s You, Instead,...
The award category is designed to promote emerging home-grown talent, bringing a set of eight films this year back to the big screen later this month, and the nominations have now been announced.
Blackbird The Devil’s Plantation Fire In The Night The Happy Lands I Am Breathing Sawney: Flesh Of Man We Are Northern Lights The Wee Man
Cineworld cinemas in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee will be screening the films again from Sunday 20th October to Tuesday 29th October, and from that Sunday 20th, audiences can vote for their favourite of the octet by going to www.cineworld.co.uk/baftascotland.
Carter Ferguson’s Fast Romance won the award two years back, with David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense, Mackenzie’s You, Instead,...
- 10/8/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Blackbird
Written by Jamie Chambers, John Craine and Robyn Pete
Directed by Jamie Chambers
UK, 2013
Blackbird is set in a Scottish island town where the traditional culture, based around folk singing, is gradually dying out and young people are flocking to the cities in search of better opportunities. The community has been fractured by weakening local industries and a loss of identity, leading to social discord and conflicting views about how the town should move forward. Director Jamie Chambers delicately draws out these issues, showing a sad reluctance on the part of the older community to pass down their traditions, acutely aware that they have little economic value in the modern world.
The film’s protagonist is Ruadhan (Andrew Rothney), a wide-eyed, vulnerable young man, with a passion for the songs he picks up from the town’s legendary but ageing performers. He lives in a small, wooden fishing boat,...
Written by Jamie Chambers, John Craine and Robyn Pete
Directed by Jamie Chambers
UK, 2013
Blackbird is set in a Scottish island town where the traditional culture, based around folk singing, is gradually dying out and young people are flocking to the cities in search of better opportunities. The community has been fractured by weakening local industries and a loss of identity, leading to social discord and conflicting views about how the town should move forward. Director Jamie Chambers delicately draws out these issues, showing a sad reluctance on the part of the older community to pass down their traditions, acutely aware that they have little economic value in the modern world.
The film’s protagonist is Ruadhan (Andrew Rothney), a wide-eyed, vulnerable young man, with a passion for the songs he picks up from the town’s legendary but ageing performers. He lives in a small, wooden fishing boat,...
- 6/28/2013
- by Rob Dickie
- SoundOnSight
Director Jamie Chambers wants his film, screening at this year's Edinburgh film festival, to be more than an elegy for the nation's oral tradition of singing and storytelling
Home advantages don't come much stronger than the one the new Scottish film Blackbird will have when it screens this week at the Edinburgh film festival. It isn't just that the picture's writer-director, Jamie Chambers, was born and raised in the city, or that he is artistic director of Transgressive North, a community of Scottish artists that has collaborated with the likes of Irvine Welsh, Jarvis Cocker, Alexander McCall Smith and Four Tet. Nor is it merely that this movie, inspired partly by Powell and Pressburger's Hebridean romance I Know Where I'm Going!, will be vying for the prestigious Michael Powell award. The very subject of Blackbird is Scotland – specifically, the oral tradition of singing and storytelling. Despite initiatives to keep that tradition alive,...
Home advantages don't come much stronger than the one the new Scottish film Blackbird will have when it screens this week at the Edinburgh film festival. It isn't just that the picture's writer-director, Jamie Chambers, was born and raised in the city, or that he is artistic director of Transgressive North, a community of Scottish artists that has collaborated with the likes of Irvine Welsh, Jarvis Cocker, Alexander McCall Smith and Four Tet. Nor is it merely that this movie, inspired partly by Powell and Pressburger's Hebridean romance I Know Where I'm Going!, will be vying for the prestigious Michael Powell award. The very subject of Blackbird is Scotland – specifically, the oral tradition of singing and storytelling. Despite initiatives to keep that tradition alive,...
- 6/27/2013
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
The Iranian director will be joined by Scottish actor Kevin McKidd and film critic Derek Malcom.
Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf will chair the Michael Powell Best British Feature Film Competition Jury at the upcoming Edinburgh Film Festival, which runs June 19-30.
Makhmalbaf became the youngest director in official selection at the Cannes Film Festival 1988 with her first feature The Apple, for which she won the London Film Festival’s Sutherland Trophy. Her second film The Blackboard and third, At Five in the Afternoon, both received the jury prize at Cannes.
She will be joined on the jury by Scottish actor Kevin McKidd, who starred in last year’s Eiff closing night gala Brave, and chief film critic at the Evening Standard, Derek Malcolm.
British films competing for the Michael Powell Award include Justin Edgar’s We Are The Freaks, Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, Jamie Chambers’ Blackbird and John Hardwick’s Svengali.
The jury will...
Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf will chair the Michael Powell Best British Feature Film Competition Jury at the upcoming Edinburgh Film Festival, which runs June 19-30.
Makhmalbaf became the youngest director in official selection at the Cannes Film Festival 1988 with her first feature The Apple, for which she won the London Film Festival’s Sutherland Trophy. Her second film The Blackboard and third, At Five in the Afternoon, both received the jury prize at Cannes.
She will be joined on the jury by Scottish actor Kevin McKidd, who starred in last year’s Eiff closing night gala Brave, and chief film critic at the Evening Standard, Derek Malcolm.
British films competing for the Michael Powell Award include Justin Edgar’s We Are The Freaks, Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, Jamie Chambers’ Blackbird and John Hardwick’s Svengali.
The jury will...
- 6/19/2013
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
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