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FeaturesTom Shu-yu Lin talks 'Zinnia Flower'
Taiwanese filmmaker Tom Shu-yu Lin explains how making drama Zinnia Flower became a cathartic part of the grieving process after losing his wife.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow One-to-One: Richard Eyre & Charlotte Spencer
Director Richard Eyre tells Star of Tomorrow actor Charlotte Spencer about tempering performances for stage and screen, the perils of over-protective agents and how Emily Blunt set a benchmark for young actors.
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FeaturesMipcom: US TV drama - arresting developments
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: A hunger for edgier material and a new willingness to share risk and rights mean the US TV drama landscape has become a land of opportunity for international producers, reports John Hazelton
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FeaturesMipcom: On demand in demand
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: On demand in demand; The impact of Netflix in Australia; Asia’s VOD players.
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FeaturesEmily Morgan, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
PRODUCER: Londoner Emily Morgan is translating her knowledge of languages and international cinema into a career as a UK producer.
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FeaturesJoy Wilkinson, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: About 18 months ago, Joy Wilkinson made the decision to dedicate herself solely to film.
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FeaturesBen Aston, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
Director: Although born in the UK, Ben Aston spent his childhood in Asia, returning to Bath when he was 14.
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FeaturesAleem Khan, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: “I watched a lot of films as a kid but it wasn’t until I saw East Is East, at age 14 with the whole family in the living room, that I felt the unifying power of cinema. It was reflecting us as a family,” says Aleem Khan, director of ...
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FeaturesJorn Threlfall, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: Represented by Outsider in the commercials world, where he is highly successful on the international stage, writer-director Jorn Threlfall is late to cinema but states: “I’m ready for the big step to features.”
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FeaturesMatthew Orton, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: Matthew Orton’s first feature script is called Clean, and its drama unfolds outside London skyscraper The Shard, 400 feet off the ground. Clearly Orton has lofty ambitions.
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Farhana Bhula, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
PRODUCER: Producer Richard Holmes hired Farhana Bhula on Amit Gupta’s Jadoo while she was working at Google but looking for a break into film (she’d helped set up the Watersprite festival for student films while at Cambridge University).
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FeaturesMarnie Dickens, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: Marnie Dickens is a writer who is very much in demand, and this is her year.
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FeaturesOscar Sharp, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: Oscar Sharp’s heart-breaking Bafta-nominated short about terminal illness, The Karman Line, stars Olivia Colman as a mother who finds herself levitating from her small terraced house.
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FeaturesDaniel Emmerson, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
PRODUCER: Londoner Daniel Emmerson started out working as a location warden on National Treasure before moving onto production running on Ben Drew’s Ill Manors.
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FeaturesNick Rowland, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: Nick Rowland has consistently impressed as a writer-director.
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FeaturesAndy Brunskill, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
PRODUCER: “There’s a part of every creative meeting where everyone gets excited and runs wild,” says Andy Brunskill. “Then there’s one person who goes away to do the sums and try to make it work, and that’s why I called my company SUMS Film & Media.”
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FeaturesDan Kokotajlo, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: Dan Kokotajlo — the surname hails from a Ukrainian grandfather who fled the Nazis for Manchester — used to make hip-hop music and paint; moderately successful, he was signed to a label.
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FeaturesRichard Galazka, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: Richard Galazka started writing two years ago when he was doing a five-month season in rep as an actor at the Theatre By The Lake, Keswick.
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FeaturesCharlie Covell, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: “I’ve had a good year,” says Charlie Covell. “I could be hit by a bus and I’d still think I had a good run.”
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FeaturesBrian Vernel, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: Fresh off the run of the Matthew Warchus-directed Future Conditional at London’s Old Vic — which also marked Warchus’s first season as the theatre’s artistic director — Brian Vernel is set to transfer across the road to the Young Vic in December when he’ll lead the cast of Barbarians.