All articles by Mona Tabbara
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NewsRotterdam competition title ‘New Strains’ picked up for world sales (exclusive)
The US comedy is directed by Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan.
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BFI, Screen Producers Australia, Screen Forever launch co-production programme
UK producers and sales companies can apply now to take part in the UK-Australia programme that kicks off in May.
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Casting director Simone Bär dies aged 57
Bär worked on ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ and contributed to ‘Tar’.
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Genesius Pictures, Cornerstone Films launch new outfit GenStone, unveils first project
First GenStone project is ’Libby And Joan Hit The Road’ written by Katy Brand.
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Glasgow Film Festival sets full 2023 line-up, Nida Manzoor’s ‘Polite Society’ to close the festival
Six world premieres, 16 European and international premieres and 70 UK premieres feature in the line-up
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Six talking points from the 2023 Oscar nominations
Analysis of this year’s nominations for the Academy Awards.
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Oscar nominations 2023: which UK and Irish films and talent made the cut?
The lead actor category is particularly strong for the UK and Ireland.
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BFI Network sets 2023 cohort for emerging producer programme Insight (exclusive)
Participants include including Screen Rising Star Scotland Reece Cargan and Hoard associate producer Cheri Darbon.
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UK shoot underway for Joy Wilkinson feature debut ‘7 Keys’; first image revealed (exclusive)
A first look image has also been revealed.
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‘Babylon’ leads UK-Ireland box office new releases, while ‘Avatar 2’ retains overall top spot
‘Babylon’ lands third overall in UK-Ireland box office chart.
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UK-Ireland box office preview: will ‘Babylon’ take the spotlight from ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’?
Also out this weekend: ’Holy Spider’, ’Alice, Darling’ and ’Dreaming Walls’.
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Bafta chair Krishnendu Majumdar reflects on final year in role, “progress” of 2023 film nominations
Under Majumdar’s watch, Bafta embarked on a radical overhaul of its voting procedures and membership to improve diversity.
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UK’s Signature Entertainment hires head of theatrical sales (exclusive)
Appointment is a newly-created position for the distribution and production outfit.
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Cannes premiere ‘God’s Creatures’ picked up for UK-Ireland distribution
The film is directed by New York-based filmmakers Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer.
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Red Sea Fund sets 36 grant winners, including Rwanda’s Joel Karekezi and Saudi Arabia’s Tawfik Alzaidi
Further projects come from Mehdi M. Barsaoui, Ameer Fakher Eldin, Haifaa Al-Mansour and Annemarie Jacir.
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£14.7m allocated to Ashford film studio from UK government’s levelling up fund
The studio was first greenlit for development in 2020.
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British Urban Film Festival names first artistic director
The artistic director will assume responsibility for conceiving, developing, and implementing the artistic and commercial vision of BUFF.
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’Under The Skin’ actor Adam Pearson among participants for UK’s NFTS, Disney shorts programme
The short-form initiative aims to build “a more inclusive film and television industry”.
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Outgoing BFI London Film Festival head Tricia Tuttle reveals next move
The deadline for applications to take over from Tuttle is today (January 16).
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16 UK films to tempt festival directors in 2023
Includes new titles from Rose Glass, Alice Lowe, Steve McQueen, Ken Loach and Michael Winterbottom.
