All Features articles – Page 2
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FeaturesThe struggle to bring ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ to the world: "The Pasha escape plan affected the storytelling"
Mr Nobody Against Putin exposes the militaristic propaganda efforts at a Russian school. Director David Borenstein and co-director/subject Pavel Talankin tell Screen about their Bafta-winning film.
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FeaturesWhy two of Norway’s leading producers teamed up for ‘Sentimental Value’: “It was set up from the start as an exceptional project”
Screen learns about a meeting of minds.
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FeaturesScott Stuber on producing ‘Frankenstein’, reviving United Artists and why he left Netflix
Scott Stuber has switched back and forth from producer to studio executive, and combines both roles at Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists.
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Features“Cartoon Movie is a short, intense format designed for concrete results,” says Annick Maes of the animation showcase
The prestigious animation event takes place from March 3-5.
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FeaturesWhy John Carney struggled to finance ‘Power Ballad’ until Paul Rudd joined
The comedy drama made its world premiere at the Dublin film festival this weekend.
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FeaturesFinanciers respond to UK producers’ indie tax credit concerns: “It’s a vibrant, competitive landscape”
Private financiers of UK indie films respond to assertions from some producers they are charging disproportionately high fees to lend against the Independent Film Tax Credit.
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FeaturesAwards Whispers: anonymous voters give their frank take on the Baftas ceremony, the host and the winners
“Bafta needs more than cosmetic tweaks,” says one panellist.
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FeaturesDublin film festival’s Grainne Humphreys on the young audiences packing out the 2026 event
The festival closes on March 1 with the world premiere of John Carney’s ‘Power Ballad’.
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FeaturesHow the all-female sound team for ‘Sirât’ has made Oscars history
”This film has helped put the spotlight on our work because of the way it relies on the role of the sound and music.”
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FeaturesJoachim Trier breaks down four key scenes from ‘Sentimental Value’: “We had a horse that went crazy”
Sentimental Value tells the story of a Norwegian family, past and present, through the prism of an absent father reconnecting with his daughters
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FeaturesHow Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Cutting Through Rocks’ shines a light on Iran’s gender inequality
The film celebrates a fearless campaigner confronting the patriarchy in her conservative Iranian village
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FeaturesGlasgow Film Festival’s Paul Gallagher on how he hopes to expand the event
Gallagher wants to make more of the filmmakers, producers, sales agents and distributors who will be in town.
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FeaturesKleber Mendonca Filho breaks down four key scenes from ‘The Secret Agent’: “The film has multiple layers of storytelling”
Kleber Mendonca Filho has poured his experiences growing up in Recife, northern Brazil into political thriller The Secret Agent. He talks to Screen about four key sequences in the film.
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FeaturesSata Cissokho on how Berlin's World Cinema Fund is bringing together Global South filmmakers with Euro producers
WCF support goes directly to the local production rather than the European minority co-producer.
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FeaturesPaul Thomas Anderson, DoP Michael Bauman break down four key scenes from ‘One Battle After Another’: “I knew people would have a good reaction”
One Battle After Another combined meticulous planning with a flexible, open filmmaking approach.
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FeaturesBafta flashback: Jack O’Connell looks back on winning his rising star award – “There was some revelling”
“This was back in the days when I’d stay out late”
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Features‘Lady’ director Olive Nwosu on her filmmaking inspirations, next projects
Nwosu aims for ”a body of work that looks at the world from a modern African lens.”
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FeaturesMeet the awards campaigner who achieved a clean sweep of documentary nominees at this year’s Bafta Film Awards
UK agency Christelle & Co successfully campaigned for all five Bafta-nominated documentaries
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FeaturesWe Are Parable on building consistent, UK-wide Black cinema programming
The We Are Here initiative aims to build a consistent level of Black cinema programming across the country.
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FeaturesHow the British Business Bank is stepping up support for UK independent film
“The bank has got more firepower now [to help the creative industries]”