All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 11
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NewsBFI, Film4’s high-budget shorts programme Future Takes greenlit for second iteration
EXCLUSIVE: Six films will be award between £60,000 and £90,000.
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NewsUK scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey awarded BFI Fellowship
Mulvey wrote the seminal feminist essay ‘Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema’.
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NewsEFM partners with Montreal’s Frontières Market for genre showcase
The collaboration will begin in 2026.
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NewsLuxembourg shoot underway for Stephen Korytko debut ‘Dead Dad Girl’ from ‘Corsage’ producer Samsa Film
EXCLUSIVE: Samsa Films produces alongside Belgium’s Wrong Men and ‘Silicon Valley’ co-creators.
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NewsPrince Charles Cinema eyes second London venue
The cinema has put in a bid to take over and reopen what was the Stratford Picturehouse in east London.
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News‘We Live In Time’, ‘The Salt Path’ lead UK independent titles at local box office 2025 halfway point
The overall market share for UK independent titles was down compared to January-June of 2024.
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NewsSkydance Media closes $8bn merger with Paramount; David Ellison promises a “tech-forward company”
Skydance Media CEO David Ellison is now Paramount chairman and CEO.
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NewsUK feature film production spend takes small dip in first half of 2025
High-end TV production spend, however, was up by 18%.
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News‘The Deb’ star Charlotte MacInnes begins defamation proceedings against Rebel Wilson
Wilson has been put on notice for a defamation lawsuit by the star of Wilson’s directorial debut.
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NewsFrancois Ozon’s Venice Competition title ‘The Stranger’ picked up for UK-Ireland
Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder and Pierre Lottin star in the adaptation of Albert Camus’ novel.
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NewsSteep rise in under-£20m UK films submitted to BFI after indie tax credit greenlight
There has been a 27% year-on-year increase across the first six months of 2025 in applications for BFI certification.
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News‘Can I Get A Witness?’ starring Sandra Oh picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The film will be released theatrically on September 19.
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News‘Mary Poppins’ tops BBFC’s 2024 complaints list, amid a record-breaking year for film classifications
‘The Abyss’, ’Dune: Part Two’ and ‘Saltburn’ were also high up on the complaints list.
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News‘Prima Facie’ starring Cynthia Erivo gearing up to shoot at London’s Story Works Studios
EXCLUSIVE: It marks the first independent feature to shoot at the studios.
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FeaturesHow inclusive is the UK film and TV industry five years on from George Floyd’s murder?
Black creatives and executives in the UK film and TV sector are questioning the level of progress made.
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NewsBectu welcomes "critical" UK government crackdown on late payments for freelancers
“Many feel that they can’t complain for fear of missing out on future work”
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NewsMarvel’s ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ kicks off Glasgow shoot
Filming is also set to take place at the UK’s Pinewood Studios.
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NewsAki Kaurismäki, Joshua Oppenheimer, Nina Menkes among filmmakers to condemn Mubi’s ties with Sequoia Capital
Sequoia led a $100m investment in Mubi in May.
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News‘Mother Of Flies’ wins top prize at Fantasia
It is the first feature from the US to win the top prize at Fantasia in the festival’s 29-year history.