All BFI articles
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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.
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NewsUK appoints new chancellor in role that controls government cultural funding
Burnham is first UK prime minister to have previously been culture secretary.
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NewsTrue Brit, UK Jewish Film key recipients of latest BFI audience projects funding
Dogwoof and Scottish Queer International Film Festival have also received support.
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NewsBritish Council relaunches £623,000 Travel Grant Fund to support international festival, lab attendance
Travel Grant Fund will complement UKGSF’s Festival Launch Support Fund.
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News‘I Swear’, ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ among latest UK Global Screen Fund recipients
Distribution grants have been given to 25 companies, totalling £703,956.
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NewsUK government launches wide review of National Lottery support, including BFI funding
National Lottery Good Cause funding covers around a third of the BFI’s budget.
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NewsWarp’s Mark Herbert, Bad Wolf’s Jane Tranter join BFI board of governors
’Slow Horses’ executive producer Hakan Kousetta has also joined the board.
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NewsAustralian and UK producers meet in London for major co-production initiative
Partner With Australia (UK) was initiated by Screen Australia and Ausfilm.
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NewsBFI to fund dedicated sustainability consultants on BFI-backed features
BFI will fund sustainability consultants on Filmmaking Fund projects.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office up in first quarter of 2026, boosted by book-to-screen adaptations
‘Project Hail Mary’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘Hamnet’ and ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ have all been released.