All Features articles – Page 9
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FeaturesIn conversation: First-ever nominees for new Oscars casting category discuss a changing industry and AI actors
Gabriel Domingues, Nina Gold, Cassandra Kulukundis, Francine Maisler and Jennifer Venditti talk to Screen.
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FeaturesHow is the Muslim workforce of the UK film and TV industry being supported during Ramadan?
“I didn’t say I was fasting because I didn’t want to make myself seem like a problem.”
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FeaturesHow Depression-era photography inspired the Oscar-nominated visuals for 'Train Dreams’
Born in Brazil, resident in Portugal and working across continents, director of photography Adolpho Veloso connected with the itinerant themes of Train Dreams.
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Features‘The Ugly Stepsister’ make-up and hairstyling team on creating "beauty and dirt" and their shock Oscar nomination
The US Academy Awards rarely honours films featuring body horror, but The Ugly Stepsister has been nominated for make-up and hairstyling. Jamie Graham talks to excited Danish duo Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg.
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Features“Berlin was solid and the market felt good”: Buyers and sellers on EFM 2026
However, some expressed concern big market titles were being kept for Cannes.
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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.