All Development articles
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NewsIreland’s Keeper Pictures on lively slate and “huge growth” of local industry
The development slate includes Aislinn Clarke’s genre film ’Thomas’ and ‘The Colony’ adpated by Mark O’Halloran.
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NewsCamila Beltrán, Jonas Bak projects among 10 films in Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen lab
EXCLUSIVE: Six features selected for development section, with four in First Cut Lab.
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NewsBudapest film festival selects first winner for independent Hungarian funding
EXCLUSIVE: Jury headed by Ildiko Enyedi chose female identity exploration ‘My Mother, The Monster’.
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NewsEAVE sets out framework for inclusive international co-productions
EXCLUSIVE: Report outlines tools for producers to build more ethical and inclusive co-productions that reflect a plurality of voices.
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News‘Nothing Compares’ director Kathryn Ferguson sets next project ‘Matrescence’
EXCLUSIVE: Film is adaptation of Lucy Jones’ non-fiction book.
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News‘Sound Of Falling’ producer Studio Zentral talks future slate and focusing on new voices
EXCLUSIVE: Fast-growing German producer is behind Mascha Shilinski’s Cannes competition title.
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NewsTorinoFilmLab unveils 10 projects for 2025 FeatureLab programme
EXCLUSIVE: The 10 fiction projects were selected from 179 applications to the prestigious development programme.
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NewsThird ‘Shaun The Sheep’ film in the works from Aardman, Studiocanal
Film is currently in pre-production; Sky to release in UK.
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NewsDurban FilmMart unveils 31 African projects for 2025 Pitch and Finance Forum
The 31 projects in development come from 15 countries.
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NewsBFI re-opens Creative Challenge Fund with targeted focus on independent producers
Exclusive: The fund will invest a further £1.7m before March 2026, and is now open on a rolling basis.
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NewsCannes La Residence programme selects six writer-directors for 2025 edition
Participants include Hungary’s Flora Anna Buda, Brazil’s Rodrigo Ribeyro.
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NewsMounia Akl, Anna Hints, Micah Magee selected for TorinoFilmLab’s ScriptLab 2025
This year’s edition features 13 women, seven men and two non-binary participants
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News‘Highways Of Hope’, ‘Bugboy’ impress industry at Thessaloniki’s Agora platform
Agora is the industry strand of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
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NewsTorinoFilmLab unveils line-up for 2025 comedy development programme
ComedyLab was launched last year as an annual programme to develop feature film comedies.
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FeaturesSundance, Venice, Locarno programmers heading to Meeting Point Vilnius for Lithuania showcase
MPV is hosting a works in progress showcase of 21 projects from Lithuania and the Baltic region .
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NewsNewgrange Pictures developing Irish drug loophole comedy ‘Pillgate’ (exclusive)
John Morton is writing the script based on a temporary decriminalisation of Class A drugs in Ireland.
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NewsPalestinian sci-fi ‘In Memory Of Times To Come’ among Qumra 2025 projects
49 projects include 27 features, plus TV, web series and shorts.
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Features“European animation is a vibrant industry,” says Cartoon Movie’s Annick Maes
Projects being pitched include Will Sharpe’s ‘Absolute Surrender’.
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NewsWerner Herzog’s first animated feature ‘The Twilight World’ among line up for Cartoon Movie 2025
Cartoon Movie is Europe’s leading co-production and pitching event.
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NewsLess Is More selects 16 projects including UK title ‘Drifters’ (exclusive)
18 writers are working across the 16 projects, including participants from Ireland, Estonia and Russia.