All BFI articles
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NewsAmazon MGM Studios, Lucasfilm, Framestore to offer paid placements as part of expanded BFI Film Academy
EXCLUSIVE: The expanded provision will almost double the number of young people accessing specialised training via BFI Film Academy over the next three years.
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NewsMia Hansen-Love’s ‘If Love Should Die’ among latest UK Global Screen Fund recipients
Fund allocates over £1.2m to support seven co-productions.
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News‘Elsinore’ star Andrew Scott talks positioning of gay stories, his own producing ambitions
“The shame does not lie with the gay people,” says Scott at LFF talk.
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NewsBFI celebrates outgoing fund head Mia Bays, introduces Isabel Davis, at pre-LFF handover event
BFI CEO Ben Roberts urged people to support the National Lottery: “We need you to buy these tickets.”
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NewsScreenSkills’ bursaries receive £1.6m BFI funding, expands remit to support exhibition and distribution
Games will also now be covered by the ScreenSkills bursaries.
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NewsAnimation Featured lab selects seven projects including ‘The Bear And The Piano’
EXCLUSIVE: Projects include ‘Check Out’, produced by former BBC Film executive Dionne Farrell.
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News‘Echolalic’ starring Emily Beecham among BFI London Film Festival works-in-progress titles
LFF showcase includes eight feature films, presented to industry executives.
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News“She built connections founded on trust and friendship”: BFI pays tribute to Liz Muggeridge
Liz Muggeridge, director of business partnerships and enterprise, died suddenly in late August.
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NewsBFI Network@LFF unveils 2026 cohort
EXCLUSIVE: Screen Star of Tomorrow 2026 Luís Hindman and ’Boarders’ director Yero Timi-Biu are among the 15 participants.
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News‘Rose Of Nevada’ producer Bosena launches UK rural, coastal development programme
Programme will support 10 early-career producers over 24 weeks.
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NewsFarah Abushwesha, Nadine Marsh-Edwards among BFI Black and global majority TIFF producer delegation
Six Black and global majority UK producers are being supported by the BFI to attend Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)’s inaugural market.
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News‘The Odyssey’ becomes BFI Imax’s highest-grossing film of all time
Film has recorded over 100,000 admissions to date.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival competition lineup includes world premiere of Carol Morley’s ‘7 Miles Out’
Hirokazu Koreeda’s ’Look Back’ and May el-Toukhy’s ’Woman Unknown’ are also competing.
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NewsBFI CEO Ben Roberts: “We have to find a way to get more money into the system”
Roberts talks incoming funds director Isabel Davis; defends BFI funding application forms.
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News‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ is top grossing UK indie film in first six months of 2026
Market share for UK independent films falls 6.6%, down from 8.4%
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NewsNo Password Required scheme for Black and global majority producers returns with BFI backing
EXCLUSIVE: The programme is supported by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, and run by Victoria Thomas’ Republic of Story and Akua Gyamfi’s The British Blacklist.
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NewsUK producers offer verdict on Isabel Davis’s BFI Filmmaking Funds director appointment
Screen Scotland executive director Davis takes over the role in October.
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NewsManchester Animation Festival launches BFI-backed animation development lab
EXCLUSIVE: Seven-month lab will turn animation concepts into fully developed packages.
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NewsBFI reveals next director of Filmmaking Funds
New director will take over from Mia Bays in October.