Mona Tabbara
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FeaturesThe UK snowboarder turned Oscar-winning Grain Media founder focuses on telling small stories about big issues
Director and producer Orlando von Einsiedel’s credits include ’Virunga’ and ’The White Helmuts’.
NewsDisability advocates Sara Johnson, Julie Fernandez join UK talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates (exclusive)
Bridge06 is an agency and consultancy that supports access coordinators and disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse talent.
News“Next year is going to be tough,” says Vue CEO Tim Richards, but 2025 could be “bumper”
“We need more small and medium-sized films,” Richards told the British Screen Forum.
NewsUK’s Film and TV Charity hardship fund sees post-SAG-AFTRA strike dip in applications
The amount of money being handed out by the fund is still up on this time last year.
NewsWhat are the key themes to emerge from the submissions to the UK government film and TV committee?
Hot topics included more support for the public funders, an enhanced tax break for lower-budget productions and streamer interventions.
NewsThree-quarters of UK film and TV crew consider workplace as unsafe, says survey
The survey was conducted by Bectu in partnership with The Mark Milsome Foundation, on the sixth anniversary of the tragic death of the camera operator.
NewsBFI Filmmaking Fund taps Studiocanal exec for senior production executive post (exclusive)
Ama Ampadu, Louise Ortega, Aoife Hayes, Phoebe Sutherland and Charley Fox all have expanded their remits within the fund.
NewsUK’s Skills Task Force calls for ScreenSkills transformation, apprenticeship reform and revised funding model
The task force, chaired by former Amazon exec Georgia Brown, has found that more than £100m was committed in 2022 to skills by Task Force member organisations alone.
NewsUK film and TV organisations urge an end to complacency around responses to sexual harassment allegations
Senior figures from Bectu, the Film and TV Charity and CIISA spoke to academic Anna Bull who has conducted the study into harassment.
FeaturesMy Screen Life: Cornerstone Films’ Carla Quarto di Palo on coming to film late and the future of sales
The newly promoted head of sales at London and Los Angeles-based Cornerstone Films talks about her love of Billy Wilder and why her favourite film festival is Toronto.
NewsPaul Ridd named director of Edinburgh International Film Festival
Ridd, presently head of acquisitions at Picturehouse Entertainment, will take up the role in December.
NewsAltitude swoops on Matteo Garrone’s Venice winner ‘Io Capitano’ for UK-Ireland (exclusive)
The drama is Italy’s submission for the international film award at the Oscars.
NewsTallinn premiere ‘Five And A Half Love Stories’ swept up for sales (exclusive)
‘Saltburn’ actor Alison Oliver stars in the Lithuania-Ireland-Latvia co-production.
NewsLionsgate to release A24 sports drama ‘The Iron Claw’, starring Zac Efron, in the UK and Ireland
‘The Bear’ star Jeremy Allen White and ‘Scrapper’ and ‘The Triangle Of Sadness’ breakout Harris Dickinson also star.
News‘Euphoria’, ‘X’ horror franchise producer Kevin Turen dies
Turen’s credits include ’Pieces Of A Woman’, ‘Waves’ and ’The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent’.
NewsGoing to the cinema is good for you and your community, finds BFI report
Survey responses were collected from 2,126 cinema users spread across the six cinema venues, delivering significant and positive wider societal value of £600,000 benefit per venue each year.
NewsBFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards selects three recipients of £20,000 prizes
The three winners receive £20,000 each.
NewsFirst UK industry reactions to SAG-AFTRA agreement: “This news is a huge relief”
Pact, Bectu, Equity, the BFC and the PGGB have all celebrated the tentative agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP.
FeaturesWord of mouth - Director Carol Morley: “When I’m making films, I can’t watch or talk about films”
The UK director of The Falling and Typist Artist Pirate King is a devoted fan of London’s Garden Cinema and a keen advocate for DVDs.
NewsCult film icon Bai Ling on her directing debut, toilet paper shortages and becoming a female Tarantino
Chinese-American star Bai Ling is at the AFM with her directorial debut.