All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 2
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NewsBFI unveils recipients of latest Audience Projects Fund
EXCLUSIVE: The first funding round of 2026-2029 has backed 23 recipients with a combined total of £9.3m.
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NewsWorldwide box office share for UK indie films falls in 2025
‘The Roses’ and ‘Warfare’ were the best-performing UK independent films at the global box office.
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NewsMubi lost 200,000 subscribers in 2025 due to Sequoia controversy, according to Wall Street Journal
However, CEO Efe Cakarel said the company had reached a record 1.7million subs by the end of Q1 2026.
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NewsGower Street decreases 2026 global box office forecast to $34.7bn
Although China had a disappointing first quarter, there were local successes in South Korea, Taiwan, Spain and Italy.
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NewsBafta review into racial slur incident finds “structural weaknesses” but no “malicious intent”
“We apologise unreservedly to the Black community,” said Bafta’s board of trustees.
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NewsMaxine Peake, Andrea Arnold among speakers at Sheffield DocFest 2026
The UK festival runs from June 10-15.
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FeaturesIs giving away free tickets to indie films the answer to building cinema audiences?
BFI programme Escapes for disengaged or lapsed audiences is trying this in the UK. Is it working?
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FeaturesWhy Nigeria's Kunle Afolayan believes YouTube is key to the future of African filmmaking
Afolayan is a leading proponent of the New Nigerian Cinema movement, with credits including Netflix hit ’Aníkúlápó’.
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NewsSXSW London unveils first wave of titles, speakers including Sharon Horgan, Tom Quinn
World premieres include restaurant documentary ’Feast Or Famine’ and comedy ’All Night Wrong’.
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NewsSuzannah Mirghani’s prize-winning ‘Cotton Queen’ picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The Venice Critics’ Week premiere will be released theatrically in the autumn.
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FeaturesUK filmmaker, TV writer and novelist Helen Walsh is making waves with her second film ‘On The Sea’
The BFI Flare and Edinburgh premiere is Walsh’s follow-up to 2015’s ’The Violators’.
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NewsUK Global Screen Fund head outlines details of minimum guarantee strand and revamped strategy
“The goal is to support UK sales agents to be able to take on films and to be more risk-taking,” said Denitsa Yordanova today.
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NewsBrady Corbet, Audrey Diwan, Harry Lighton join Element Pictures’ Storyhouse screenwriting festival
EXCLUSIVE: Will Tracy, Abi Morgan and Eva Victor are also in the line-up.
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NewsBritish Screen Forum awarded £200,000 to address data gaps in UK film industry
EXCLUSIVE: The award is part of the BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund.
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NewsUK’s New Black Film Collective’s 2026 XPO unveils revised date and venue
EXCLUSIVE: The March event was postponed owing to a proposed London Underground strike.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Project Hail Mary’ takes off at 701 sites
Also new this weekend: Disney’s ’Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’ and Kaleidoscope’s ’The Land Of Sometimes’.
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NewsIreland’s Break Out Pictures bolsters slate with Dublin film festival premieres
‘The Three Urns’ and ‘Once Upon A Time In A Cinema’ will be released theatrically in the spring.
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FeaturesHow is the Muslim workforce of the UK film and TV industry being supported during Ramadan?
“I didn’t say I was fasting because I didn’t want to make myself seem like a problem.”
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Features“Berlin was solid and the market felt good”: Buyers and sellers on EFM 2026
However, some expressed concern big market titles were being kept for Cannes.
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NewsFirst reactions to Warner Bros-Paramount deal: “Mega-mergers raise red flags”, “An antitrust disaster”
The UKCA, Film Export UK and Bectu are among the first industry bodies to weigh in on the deal.