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NewsSwedish Film Institute selects two winners of £60,000 Wild Card prize
Winners were awarded at a ceremony during Stockholm Film Festival.
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NewsJasmila Zbanić and Radu Jude projects secure Austrian funding
38 projects share €15m funding from Austrian Film Institute and Vienna Film Fund.
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NewsDaniel Hui, Martika Ramirez Escobar among Purin Pictures autumn 2024 grant selection
Two projects from Malaysia about legendary filmmaker P Ramlee also selected.
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NewsHungarian 30% film tax incentive extended for six more years
Hungary has reached $910m annual film production spend.
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NewsFirst Budapest International Film Festival launches with independent Hungarian fund (exclusive)
The fund will support one Hungarian feature and one short, from script to release.
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NewsEdith Wharton adaptation ‘The Custom Of The Country’, directed by Josie Rourke, wins German funding
Sofia Coppola had previously been planning to adapt The Custom of the Country as a series for Apple TV+.
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NewsSeven talking points from Rome’s MIA market
The Rome film and TV event has emerged as an important co-production, pitching, sales and conference market.
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NewsA “generational shift” is pushing UK producers closer to international partners, says BFI’s Mia Bays
The roundtable discussion took place during the Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film.
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NewsHorror films comprise 50% of Screen Australia’s latest feature investments
Australia horor titles such as ‘Talk To Me’ have done well at the international box office.
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NewsIndependent Film Tax Credit gets official greenlight from UK government
The BFI certification unit will begin accepting applications on October 30.
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News‘Riddick 4: Furya’ starring Vin Diesel secures €2m funding from Germany’s FFF Bayern
Fourth instalment of David Twohy’s space western will largely shoot in Bavaria, as well as Spain and the UK,
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NewsGreece further delays formal reopening of 40% tax rebate due to lack of funds
The newly-created HFAC-Creative Greece said it is waiting for funding to reopen the popular tax rebate.
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NewsMatt Dillon, Riley Keough and Isaach de Bankolé to star in Claire Denis’ ‘Le Cri Des Gardes’
Arte France Cinema is co-producing projects by Claire Denis, Arnaud Desplechin, Yann Gonzalez and Zou Jing.
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NewsFinnish film industry strongly protests proposed budget cuts
Finnish promotion and development agency facing 50% budget cut.
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NewsIreland receives 8% tax incentive uplift for lower-budget local film production
Local films budgeted under €20m will now receive a 40% tax break.
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NewsBFI’s Harriet Finney and industry update on progress for the UK indie tax credit
“They’re engaging very quickly,” said Finney at yesterday’s ’Screen Summit 2024: The Future of UK Film’.
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News“You realise how many opportunities are out there,” say producers of impact of UK Global Screen Fund
”The UKGSF is about our outward-looking perspective on the business – this is not about the UK.”
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NewsFive actions could revive struggling indie UK film sector, according to British Screen Forum report
They include galvanising private equity investment and improved access to data.
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NewsItalian minister outlines why attracting international projects is a top priority under revised tax credit (exclusive)
Lucia Borgonzoni outlines key changes including reforms around use of AI.
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NewsItaly revises international tax credit, maintaining headline 40% rate and banning relief for AI spend
Italy is one of the first countries to exclude AI costs from financial incentives.