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NewsEuropean premiere of Great Expectations to close BFI London Film Festival
Premiere to take place at Odeon Leicester Square on Oct 21, with Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes and Mike Newell expected to attend the festival.
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NewsFrankenweenie to open BFI London Film Festival
Tim Burton’s Disney animation will go live from Odeon Leicester Square to BFI Imax and 30 screens across the UK; Tim Burton, cast and producers expected to attend.
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NewsBFI's Hitchcock season to close with The Manxman with LFF gala
The film will screen in the Archive Gala slot at the BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival to shorten duration, increase screenings
The festival will also make use of more venues during its shorter 12 day run.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival revamps programme sections
New competition sections to be added, and ‘clusters’ will be grouped by themes.
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NewsBFI Chairman Greg Dyke urges broadcasters to do more for film production and distribution
Dyke singles out Sky to provide “greater access for British and specialised films on the Sky platform.”
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NewsKevin named LFF best film; Sutherland goes to Las Acacias
Candese Reid wins Best British Newcomer for her role in Junkhearts; Herzog’s Into The Abyss wins Grierson doc prize.
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NewsLFF screens Damsels as surprise film; Best of Fest screenings announced
The BFI London Film Festival unveiled Whit Stillman’s Damsels In Distress as its annual surprise film last night.
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NewsSpeaking at LFF, Alexander Payne confirms next two projects
Director Payne confirms that he’s working on black-and-white road movie ‘Nebraska’ and graphic novel adaptation.
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NewsThe Works gives UK home to Take Shelter
Jeff Nichols’ Cannes and Sundance hit gets UK distribution ahead of UK premiere.
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NewsYellow Bird's Gray talks about importance of producer-author relationships
The Sweden-based producer says that the US version of Headhunters could shoot as soon as 2012.
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NewsBarry Ackroyd at LFF: 'Camera is there to convince the audience'
Acclaimed cinematographer Barry Ackroyd said his documentary background informs the ‘verisimilitude’ in the way he shoots narrative films today.
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NewsPixel Pitch Prize goes to Aho, Hristov's Love & Engineering
Also at Power To The Pixel’s Cross-Media Forum in London, the Pixel Lab prizes go to Turning Point from Tobias Buchne and The Elders Project from Marc Boothe.
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NewsArtificial Eye circles 360; company builds on Paramount ties
UK distributor Artificial Eye is thought to be in final negotiations to acquire Fernando Meirelles’ 360, whichopened the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday.
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NewsArtificial Eye takes UK & Irish rights for Michael Winterbottom's Trishna
India-set Tess update stars Frieda Pinto and Riz Ahmed.
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NewsYellow Bird's Marianne Gray to give key note speech at PFM
Producer Marianne Gray of Swedish production company Yellow Bird is to deliver the keynote address at Film London’s fifth Production Finance Market (PFM).
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NewsProduction Finance Market's offerings include Maybury's Atomic Blonde
New projects from Gillian Armstrong, John Maybury and Sally Potter [pictured] will be talked up to financiers at this month’s PFM.
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NewsPower To The Pixel: Lance Weiler to launch Robot Heart Stories project next week
Filmmaker and transmedia pioneer Lance Weiler is set to launch his next project, Robot Heart Stories, on Oct 17.
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NewsPower To The Pixel: Transmedia still in age of pioneers and experimentation
Rules and financial models are still being worked out, but experts say that a new artform is definitely emerging.
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NewsBFI to give Fellowship Awards to David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes
Jurors across LFF prizes include John Madden, Sam Taylor Wood, Andrew Eaton, Andy Harries, and Anne-Marie Duff.